CrockPot 2014

Some sources state that James Logan COLBERT was born in Scotland ("native" [http://www.awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=native&id=I00309] has Inverness, Scotland) and arrived in Darien, GA in January, 1736, possibly as a stowaway aboard the Prince Of Wales.

In an 1841 interview, Malcolm MCGEE, a Chickasaw interpreter, stated that Colbert was from "the Carolinas." capthook [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=capthook333&id=I55965] specifically places his birth in Plum Tree Island, NC. This seems to be the definitive answer (see http://www.roark-family.org/Colberts/TheColberts.asp).

James Logan COLBERT had three wives, sometimes (perhaps unfortunately) identified as "Chickasaw I," "Chickasaw II," and "Halfbreed (or Halfblood) Chickasaw." [On a related topic, It really would simplify things for everyone if we would simply admit that polygamy was hardly unknown in this population at the time. As clan membership descended from the mother, I believe they would have kept careful track of just who was whose.]

"native" [http://awt.ancestry.com/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=native&id=I00309] and "birch tree" [http://awt.awt.ancestry.com/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=:1571710&id=I188014] list an additional daughter, Celia COLBERT (q. v.), born before 1750, as a child of James Logan Colbert and his "first" wife. Some sources refer to her as a "possible daughter." She married John MCLISH. Both are listed elsewhere in this database. [As of 2006, both these sources seem to have disappeared from the web.]

This surely is the "Capt. James Logan Colbert" who led a British engagement against the Spanish garrison at Arkansas Post (or Fort Carlos?) on April 17, 1783??? (See "Special History Report: The Colbert Raid" at http://www.nps.gov/arpo/colbert/contents.htm and ignore the highly questionable (albeit traditional) genealogy in section II.C.1.)