I35871: Sarah CASSIDY (ABT 1820

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From Colonial Office Records (, Vol 80) in Public Records Office, London U. K.
Transcribed from microfilm copy in Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. by Jerry L Clark

Letter dated April 9, 1779
Ustenalla Town
Robert Dews to Alexander Cameron:

This will be handed to you by the bearer of Mr. Scott's letters which was to have been dispatched the day after they were dated. Anthony Foreman, who was to have carried them, was prevented by sickness. I then applied to an Indian who promised to sett out in four days after Mr Scott left this [place]. He came at the time appointed [&] said that he missed his horse. It was with some difficulty that the Cowee Warrior engaged the bearer.

Mr Scott sett off on his expedition the 30th ult. accompanied by the Good Warrior & ten men from Quallakee [?] where the Esemakia [?] Indians live. The Raven and Categiskee with fifteen men from Salugoe, white men, Greaves, Proctor, Row, Springston, Riley, Cery, & Vernon of your company, John Ramsay, John Christie, and Samuel Benjamin from the Rebel towns & Charles Hughes and Joseph Vann. Since passes this [force?] to join him, Six of the Cohutta Indians & followed by John Brown, the Bear & Charles Beamer & the day following the Young Turkey & Terrapin (the Great Warrior's son) with twenty five men. James Hughes & this day twenty four of the Toquoa people & twenty one of the Cossacohatchee [?] people accompanied by Hicks, Morross & Luke sett off from Cusachetehee [?]. The Little Bird & a large party with him likewise sett off this day from the town to join the former parties & a Considerable number from the disaffected towns is expected to join the last parties.

Mr McDonald passed this river at Cusawahtee yesterday with a number of his division, the Bloody Fellow or Nenetuya. [Parted?] from them three days since with an order for Ammunition. He took about twenty Indians and four white men is with Mr McDonald: John Vann, Campbell, Levett, & Bench. This party was to have joined Mr Scott at this place but a report [was?] transmitted that a number of Rebels were on their way from the Long Island in Boats to Rout the towns on [the] Tennessee [River]. However the party setting out at the Island is intended as a reinforcement of the Illinois so that Mr McDonald have left Jud's Friend with about Seventy five men to prevent their passing & take as many prisoners as Possible, if the Rebels should not be superior in force.

I am proud to inform you that the whole Nation seems Unamimous against the Rebels. Every town & village in the woods have sent & are daily sending men against them. The disaffected in the Valleys, Middle [Towns?] & Lower Towns are daily falling off from them & surely Believe that with a little encouragement at this time from you would in the course of this summer bring them entirely out of the Old Towns.

The Raven & Old Tassel have been with Mr McDonald. I have not heard the particulars of their Business but the Great Warrior has left his medal with his son the Terrapin, who intends seeing you after his return from the War.

By two fellows from the Esenota [?] settlement now in the House I am informed of a large party consisting of Highawassee & Chestee people on their way to join Messers McDonald & Scott at the Rendevous at the Standing Peach Tree so that a moderate computation [shows] those gentlemen will have 300 men exclusive of what may join them from the disaffected Towns. This much Sir, I have taken the liberty of Acquainting you with, as I thought it a part of my duty being subsequent to Mr Scott's departure.

I must begg your patience a little to acquaint you that the number of Traders on this River is too great for the number of hunters, they not being sufficient to support five of us: viz. John Morris at Cusawahtehee, John Yarwook [?] at Saligoe, John Seeke [?] & James Ramsay & myself at this place. As I am the latest I hope you will grant me a permit for some other town. Of them on [the] Tennessee, I would prefer Tuskegee as many of my old customers reside in & about that town. My reason for applying to you at this time is that I may not be too late as the Fall of the Year with time enough for me to move to that place should it be to your pleasure.

Your Obediant Servant,
Robert Dews

NOTES:
Robert Dews = Robert Due (grandfather of Diana Rogers, Cherokee wife of Sam Houston)
Alexander Cameron = British Agent to Cherokees since 1868; he had at least 3 mixed-blood children. [John] McDonald, [Walter] Scott, [Nathaniel] Hicks, and Anthony Foreman are my ancestors [Jerry Clark].

Other Indian Countrymen (white traders with Indian wives) listed are [William] Springston, [Richard] Riley, Proctor, John Christie, Cery [William Carey], Charles Beamer, John Brown (perhaps the mixed-blood father of Catherine & David Brown?), [William] Campbell, Levett [Lovett?] and Bench [John Benge?] are mentioned in Emmet Starr's OLD CHEROKEE FAMILIES.

John Vann and Joseph Vann were the progenitors of a wealthy Cherokee family (Joseph was probably the father of Chief James Vann). John Vann (or his son) married the daughter of The Terrapin. Who were Vernon, John Ramsay, Morross, Luke, Samuel Benjamin, John Morris, John Yarwook, and John Seeke?

Note the Chiefs and warriors listed: The Great Warrior of Chota (Oconostota), his son The Terrapin, his brother Categiskee (Kittagusta) and his nephew the Raven of Chota. Others mentioned were The Bloody Fellow, The Bear, The Cowee Warrior, The Young Turkey, Little Bird, and Jud's Friend (= Judd's Friend or Oostenaca).

- Published by Jim Hicks

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Not sure the record below is for this Benjamin.
From Willie Pauline Young, comp., Abstracts of Old Ninety-six and Abbeville
District Wills and Bonds.(Easley, S.C.:Southern Historical Press, 1977).
p. 290. BENJAMIN GAINES Witnessed will of Robert Sample, 6 Oct 1813,
p. 400. BENJAMIN GAINES Box 107, Pack 2832 Est, admnr. June 12, 1815 by
Elizabeth Gaines, Edmond, Wm. Ware unto Taliaferro Livinston Ord. Abbeville
Dist. sum $2,000.00.

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"daughter of Jesse Hood and Sophia Turner. She was born 1822 in Monroe County, Kentucky, and died 1883 in Monroe County, Kentucky." from Compton file www.my family.com

[222811]
born abt 1822

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Family: Cheney, Anne
Children:
Iiams, Elizabeth Birth : 12 AUG 1707
Iams, John Birth : 1708
Iams, Mary Birth : 1709
Iiams, Racheal Birth : 1710
Iiams, Richard Birth : 1711
Iiams, William Birth : 1712
Iiams, Cheney Birth : 1713 Gender: Female

Family: Gaither, Elizabeth
Children:
Iams, John
Iams, Charity
Iams, Sarah
Iams, Aaron
Iams, William

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unknown (Wife) or Ann * (Wife) Marriage: ABT 1700 in Caroline Co, VA

Paragraph from the book 'Petry, Pettry, Petrey, Pettry, and Allied Families by D. L. Petry, published 1989 by McClain Printing Co., Parsons, West Virginia:

"John Peatross, son of Mathew and Elizabeth (Mayo) Peatross, baptized Dec. 7, 1679, Middlesex Parish, Virginia, on the same day as his sister, Elizabeth. He is mentioned in the will of his brother, Thomas Peatross, Essex, County, Virginia, in 1715, probated 1716, as being the father of Elizabeth, Matthew, Thomas and John Peatross.

His wife, Ann is also mentioned. Aside from that brief reference there are no other records found by this writer until 1732 in Caroline County, which was formed from Essex County in 1727. It remains a mystery as to why he lived in such apparent anonymity until his 53rd year."

Children:
Matthew Peatross * b. 1705 in Essex Co, VA
Elizabeth Peatross
Thomas Peatross
John Peatross Jr b. Before 1715

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Daughter of Jared Young of Union Co. SC.
Died in Calhoun Co. GA on 1860 Mortality Schedule, age 47.

My Southern Family

Sarah CASSIDY

ABT 1820 - ____

ID Number: I35871

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Robert DUE

ABT 1740 - ____

ID Number: I87171

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Benjamin GAINES

ABT 1791 - ____

ID Number: I33501

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John Nelson HIGGINBOTHAM

ABT 1831 - ____

ID Number: I39192

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Lucy W. HOOD

ABT 1816 - 1883

ID Number: I46105

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Richard IAMS

1673 - BEF Aug 1761

ID Number: I96454

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Mary KENDRICK

1678 - BEF 1705

ID Number: I73679

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Constine Phillip MCINNIS

1849 - ____

ID Number: I3432

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John PEATROSS Sr.

7 Dec 1679 - ABT 1743

ID Number: I100186

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Mary SHORT

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I83850

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Frances Virginia TUTT

25 Dec 1825 - 27 Feb 1902

ID Number: I64396

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Elizabeth Dearing WALL

ABT 1796 - ____

ID Number: I79934

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Jesse John WARREN

ABT 1729 - 5 Mar 1782

ID Number: I71309

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Mary Pauline WHITELY

Eleanor YOUNG

ABT 1813 - 1860

ID Number: I10726

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