Compiled Data on Cherokee Genealogy
Compiled Data on Cherokee Genealogy
This data is
by no means 'confirmed' data. It is a series of reasonable assumptions
taken from seven sources. Those sources are listed. It is
being offered for the use of researchers of the Overhill and Chickamauga
Cherokee cultures. Joyce G. Reece, May 21, 2003
[email protected]
(unconfirmed data
denoted with an asterisk *)
Information taken
from
Journal of
Cherokee Studies…different volume’s
Cherokee’s and
their Chief’s by Stanley Hoig
The Cherokee’s by
Grace Steel Woodward
History of the
Cherokee Indians by Emmett Starr
Historical Notes
on the Cherokee People by Linda Fulmer
The Cherokee
Frontier, Conflict and Survival by David Corkan
Colonial Records
of South Carolina, Capt. Raymond Demere’s letter to Gov. Lyttelton of South
Carolina
***Some data is
repeated. This is to emphasize the fact that the info was taken from different
sources
Moytoy
- *Born 1635-45
- Son was Old Hop or Kanagatoga
- Ammonscossittee was his son
- (Not to be confused with Young Chief Moytoy who was
chief from 1730 to 1741)
Old Tassel
Aka: George Tassel, George Watts; Corn Tassel,
Kahyanteechee
- Sister was Wurtah
- Chief Corn Tassel killed in 1788 by Kirk of John Seviers
militia unit
- Corn Tassle (or Old Tassle as he is also known on
record)
- Gist allowed to settle on the Great Island (across from
Fort Henry) was married, in Cherokee terms, to Tassel’s sister, Wurtuh, Mother
of Sequoyah.
- Pumpkin Boy Old Tassel’s brother
- *Son was Little Tassle, Kunnesseei, or Green Corn Top or
John Watts
- Died 1808
- “Watts had such a close attachment to Corn Tassel that
he was known as Young Tassel
- Watts was the son of a sister of Corn Tassle
- Hoig said Young Tassle was a blood relative of Old
Tassle
- John Watts son of a sister of Corn Tassle, quite likely
his father was John Watts who served as interpreter at the Cherokee treaty
with the British at Augusta Georgia in 1763
- Corn Tassel was Doubleheads brother
- John Watts his nephew.
- Dtr. Married Bob Benge
Eugihooti
- Old Tassels sister
- *Old Tassels Daughter
Old Abram
- Fought with General George Washington in Virginia
- AKA Ooskia
- *Son of Attakullakulla
- Killed in 1788 at Chilhowee by Kirk
- AKA, Old Abraham, Abraham of Chilhowee
- Brother to Hanging Maw who was Chief in 1788
Hanging Maw
- *Tassel and Hanging Maw visited Col Joseph
Martin in 1773 in Sullivan Co TN
- Signed Treaty at Holsten in 1790
- Died 1795
Old Hop
- Kanagatoga, Fire King of Chota
- Was son of Amatoya Moytoy of Chota
- Died 1700
- Uncle to Attakullakulla
- Doublehead was his brother
Wurtuh
- Sister of Old Tassel
- *Sister of CornTassel
Standing Turkey
- Wife was Sarah Caroline Bell
Attakullakulla
- AKA; The Little Carpenter, White Owl and others
- Old Hop’s Son (Journal of Cherokee Studies)
- Died 1781
- Born c1700
- *Raven of Hiwassee said to be his brother
- Old Hop his uncle
- Nancy Ward, Nanyi-hi his neice
- Dragging Canoe his son
- Born on Big Island on French Broad River
- Nephew of Old Hop
- Nionee was his wife
- Nionee Ollie dtr of Oconostota
- His mother was daughter of Amatoa Moytoy
- *Mother was sister of Connecorte
- * Old Hop Attakullakulla’s mother’s brother
- Tame Doe his sister
- * Moytoy his father
- Mother was sister of Standing Turkey
Bob Benge
- Blood relative of Corn Tassel
- *Chief Benge was son of trader Benge. His mother was
sister of Dragging Canoe.
Doublehead
- Brother to Old Tassel
- John Watts was nephew
- Doublehead was a blood-thirsty chief who served under
Dragging Canoe and jointly with John Watts.
- Commanded expedition against Knoxville in 1793
- Killed by Major Ridge
- Blood relative of Corn Tassel
Tahlonteeskee
- Blood relative of Corn Tassel
- Close friend of Creek leader William Bowles
- Signed Treaty of Holsten in 1790
- Also known as the Common disturber or Upsetter. He and
Doublehead were fierce Chickamauga warriors
- Blood relation of Corn Tassel
- William Blount said he was nephew of Corn Tassel
(William Blount letter of Sept 26, 1792, American State Papers, Indian
Affairs, cpt 1 page 291)
- *Married to Dragging Canoe’s sister
- *Nephew of John Watts
- *Brother in law of Doublehead
10 Brother to John Jolly
- Black Fox, nephew of Dragging Canoe, on the occasion of
Dragging Canoe’s death said…….”Another person I also nominate as a head man,
Taloteeskie, who is to be considered in place of Old Tassel.
Dragging Canoe
- Son of Attakullakulla
- Died at Lookout Tower March 1, 1792
- Young Dragging Canoe was his son
- *Born 1753
- Named his son White Owl after his brother of the same
name
Oconostota
- AKA: The Great Warrior and others
- Chief 1763-1788
- Mother was Quatsis or Quatie *Born 1683. Married to
James Beamer 1699
- Father was James Beamer
- Shallelocke is his brother
- Married 3 times. 1. Creek woman , child was Terrapin.
2. Lucy Ward, their dtr was also Lucy Ward. 3. Unknown
- Kenoteta or Small Pox Conjuror of Settico was his
brother (see Lyttleton Papers at
www.accessgenealogy.com
- His daughter married John Brown
NOTE: Oconostota was said in one place to have died in
1773. In yet another he is charted to be chief in 1788
The younger Lucy Ward was said to have raised Nanyi-Hi (aka
Nancy Ward)….the dtr of Tame Doe, Attakullakulla’s sister and Fivekiller.
Compiled Data
Reasonable Conclusions
MOYTOY
Born circa 1635
Children:
Nettle Carrier
Ammonscossittee
Daughter—Mother of Attakullakulla
Old Hop
Old Tassle aka Corn Tassle
Wurtuh
Eugihooti
Grandchildren of Moytoy
Willenawah
Pumpkinhead?
Killaque?
Daughter—mother of John Watts
Young Chief Moytoy (died 1741)
Attakullakulla
Tame Doe
Corn Tassle
Doublehead?? (many questions remain)
Attakullakulla
Born circa
1700-10/died 1781
Wife: Nionee Ollie dtr of Oconostota or Old Hop
His Mother was sister of Standing Turkey
Children:
Turtle At Home
Whiteman Killer
Dragging Canoe (son of a Shawnee woman)
Daughter married Bob Benge
Daughter married Tahlonteeskee
White Owl or Ockoonaka
Badger
NOTES:
- In all actuality there was at least two men called Corn
Tassel or Old Tassle. These are quite often confused. The first was in the
same generation as Old Hop and was probably a brother. The
other was in the next generation….a grandson of Moytoy.
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