SUB Hamburg A/606131 UPON OUR RUINS A Study in Cherokee History and Genealogy Compiled, written and edited by Don L. Shadburn with John D. Strange, III THE COTTONPATCH PRESS Cumming, Georgia Pioneer-Cherokee Heritage Series Volume 7
I I Contents reface: Mementos and Memories the Land of the Cherokees (Poem) production: Rising from the Ruins 'jpon Our Ruins J/idows, Relicts, Consorts, and Orphans juperscripted Names and Nicknames vii viii ix xi xiii xiv Part I THE CHEROKEE CONNECTION ' nd it shall come to pass (Poem) 'i i xv xviii John Adair: Indian Trader of South Carolina 1 Edward Adair: Indian Countryman and Irish Trader 35 Daniel Davis: Indian Countryman of Lumpkin County 45 James Dougherty: Cherokee Clan of Big Savannah 71 Charles Gordon Duncan: Indian Countryman of Hall County, Georgia 99 Susannah K. Guerineau: Cherokee Reservee on Chattahoochee River 127 ' Jeter and Nancy Martin-Lynch: Reservees of Nacoochee Valley 141. I John and Joseph Martin: Cherokee Countrymen of Virginia 155 ') Samuel Martin: Cherokee Mixed-Blood on Shallowford Road 177 0 David McDaniel: j Scotsman of Tomassee Town 193 ;1 Captain David McNair:! Cherokee Countryman of Connasauga 205 2 Andrew and Caty Ferguson-Miller: A Mixed Marriage in Tennessee 229 3 Richard Pearis: British Tory and Indian Trader 241 iii
14 Lewis Ralston: «a> Gold Digger of Dahlonega and the Colorado Rockies 251 15 Major Ridge: Cherokee Martyr of the Treaty Party 269 16 John Rogers: Three Indian Countrymen of the Cherokee Nation 293 17 Richard Rowe: The Creek Connection 313 18 Captain Shoe Boots: Story of a Cherokee Warrior 337 19 Boney and Tip Tankersley: A Counterfeit Cherokee Claim? 363 20 Sarah Tidwell: Cherokee Children by Blood 381 21 John and Joseph Vann: Indian Traders and Interpreters 393 22 John and Caty Ward: Mixed-Blood Family in the Cherokee Foothills 425 23 Delilah Welch: Cherokee Reservee on Chestatee River 443 24 Stephen Whitmire: Indian Countryman of Cherokee Georgia 449 25 PROFILES OF CHEROKEE COUNTRYMEN 1. Browns of Cherokee Blood 467 2. John Cochran and Cloud Sisters 471 3. Thomas Cordery and Henry Vickery: A Postscript 471 4. John Downing: Virginia Trader 475 5. William Emory and Mary Grant 480 6. Ludovic Grant: Indian Trader of South Carolina 484 7. William Richard Henson and Margaret Blair 486 8. John Hildebrand and Susannah Woman Catcher 489 9. Thomas Jones and Elizabeth Wilkerson 491 10. Martin B. Maney and Keziah Vann 492 11. Alexander Matoy: The Real Matoys 496 12. Samuel Parks and Susannah Taylor 501 13. Enoch Rogers and Catherine "Caty" Teague 503 14. Mitchell Sanders and Susannah Corntassel 505 15. Charles Taylor 507 iv
16. John Terrell and Elizabeth Graves 509 17. Jeremiah Clinton Towers and Elizabeth Buffington 510 18. Avery R. Vann and Margaret "Peggy" McSwain 511 19. Captain John Watts, Sr. ( c.1720-1771) 515 26 PROFILES OF CHEROKEE KINDRED 1. Captain Robert "Bob" Benge 533 2. Jesse Bushyhead and Eliza Wilkerson 536 3. George Guess (Sikwa'yi) 539 4. John Looney (c.1776-1846) - 544 5. John Ross and Elizabeth "Quatie" Martin (aka Brown) 544 6. Avery Vann and "Betsy" Scott 547 7. Jeremiah Ward 548 8. George Wolf and Nelly Bailey: A Narrative 551 27 PROFILES OF CHEROKEE WOMEN 559 1. Nancy Downing 559 2. The Sally Hughes Enigma. 565 3. Elizabeth Scott: Seven Spouses 570 4. Mary "Polly" Scott and Eliphas M. Holt 572 Maps: 1. Cherokee Country during the Colonial Period 584 2. Sketch of the Cherokee Country in the 17 th Century 585 3. Cherokee Nation in 1830-21, showing eight district boundaries 586 4. Cherokee Nation of Georgia, showing 10 counties created in 1832 587 5. Plat of Lot 477, District 1, Section 2 of Cherokee (later Cobb) County, Georgia, surveyed in 1832 588 Part II CHEROKEE RECORDS (Appendices) 589 Appendix A 590 Wills and Estate Records, 1760-1889 590 1. Last Will and Testament of Joseph Martin, Sr. (1760) 590 2. Nuncupative Will of James Foster (1782) 591 3. Last Will and Testament of Richard Pearis (1790) 592 4. Citation on the Estate of Walter Scott (1794) 595 5. Last Will and Testament of Michael Whitmire (1795) 596 6. Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Hawkins (1812) 597 v
7. Last Will and Testament of John Adair (1815). 598 8. Last Will and Testament of Bryant Ward (1815) 601 9. Last Will and Testament of George Downing, Sr. (1818). 602 10. Last Will and Testament of Hannah Downing (1819) 603 11. Last Will and Testament of William Lynch (1820) 604 12. Indenture onfhe Reservation of Jeter Lynch (1829) 605 13. Estate Deed on Reservation of Jeter Lynch (1829) 606 14. Last Will and Testament of Stephen Whitmire (1831) 607 15. Last Will and Testament of John Gunter, Sr. (1833) 608 16. Last Will and Testament of David McNair (1836) 609 17. Last Will and Testament of Samuel Adair (1845) 612 18. Last Will and Testament of Edward Adair (1864) 614 19. Last Will and Testament of Daniel Davis (1868) 616 20. Last Will and Testament of David Rowe (1889) 617 Appendix B.. 619 Cherokee Georgia Census Reports: 1830 619 B-l. Habersham County Census (excerpts) 621 B-2. Hall County Census of 1830 (excerpts) 623 B-3. Gwinnett County Census of 1830 (excerpts) 629 Appendix C 638 Georgia Citizenship Acts, 1838-1845 638 Appendix D 641 Cherokee Reservation and Spoliation Claims, 1837-1847 641 Appendix E 669 Letters of Mrs. Emily Agnes Paschal-McNeir 669 Appendix F 674 White Men and Women with Indian Spouses 674 Acknowledgments 678 Special Recognition 682 Contributors 684 Selected Bibliography 687 INDEX 699 vi