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Descendants of A-ma-do-ya Moytoy

78. WURTEH⁵ WATTS (SISTEROF⁴ DOUBLEHEAD, GREAT³ EAGLE, MOYTOY², A-MA-DO-YA¹) was born Abt. 1748 in Tasagi Town. She married (1) NATHANIAL GIST Abt. 1764, son of CHRISTOPHER GIST, CAP. He was born Abt. 1730. She married (2) BLOODY FELLOW, CHIEF Abt. 1765. He was born Abt. 1740, and died Aft. 1794. She married (3) JOHN TRADER BENGE Abt. 1767. He was born Abt. 1735 in Albemarle Co, VA, and died Abt. 1800 in Georgia.

Notes for WURTEH WATTS:
I previously had Ta-lo-nv-ti-s-gi & U-ta-na as "Benges", children of Wurteh & John "Trader" Benge -and- I had a Ta-lo-nv-ti-s-gi as a son of Elizabeth Emory. The son of Elizabeth Emory was an entry to denote Ta-lo-nv-ti-s-gi as the older [half-]brother of John Jolly as per Starr, A32, pg 472. Ta-lo-nv-ti-s-gi & U-ta-na "The Tail" under Wurteh & John "Trader" Benge were denoting The Tail as the brother of Captain Benge "The Bench" as per the American State Papers which also mentioned The Tail & Captain Benge as nephews of John Watts. The simplest resolution to the multiple Ta-lo-nv-ti-s-gi's, without disagreeing with any text, would have Ta-lo-nv-ti-s-gi & U-ta-na as children of Wurtah and a Full Blood Cherokee. Bloody Fellow is a likely candidate; he and John Watts Jr both resided at Wills Town at the same time. Sequoyah also grew up in Wills Town and this arraingment would have Bloody Fellow as Sequoyah's Ex-Step-Father.

Ta-lo-nv-ti-s-gi, the son of Wurtah and half-brother of John Jolly, I believe is the same individual as the Ta-lo-nv-ti-s-gi that married Jennie Lowrey. Jennie's brother, George Lowrey Jr married Lucy Benge. Therefore John Jolly is likely to be another son of Wurtah and, presumably, Robert Due, the Indian Trader -or- the son of Robert Due and some other Cherokee woman.

More About WURTEH WATTS:
Blood: Half Blood Cherokee
Clan: Ani'-Wā'di = Red Paint (Wurteh)
Note: the marriage of Wurteh to Bloody Fellow is speculative but plausable
Starr's Notes: D573; "full blood Cherokee", Paint Clan, sister of Co-a-to-hee or Corntassel of Toquo (signer 11/28/85)

Notes for NATHANIAL GIST:
"Myths of the Cherokee", James Mooney, Dover Publications, Inc, NY, p 108;

...by a KY family it is claimed... Sequoya's father was Nathaniel Gist, son of the scout who accompanied [George] Washington on his memorable excursion to the Ohio. As the story goes, Nathaniel Gist was captured by the Cherokee ar Braddock's defeat (1755) and remained a prisoner with them for six years, during which time he became the father of Sequoyah. On his return to civilization he married a white woman in VA, by whom he had other children, and afterward removed to KY, where Sequoyah, then a Baptist preacher, frequently visited them and was always recognized by the family as his son.
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Old Frontiers, by John P Brown, 1938, Southern Publishers, Kingsport, TN, pg 158;

Nathanial Gist first appeared among the Cherokees as a messenger of Governor Dinwiddie in 1755. Following the French and Indian War he formed a trading partnership with Richard Pearis and lived in the Cherokee country for several years. During that time, he took as his Indian wife, Wurteh, sister of Chief Old Tassel, and became the father of Sequoyah.

More About NATHANIAL GIST:
Blood: Non-Cherokee

Notes for BLOODY FELLOW, CHIEF:
Nenetooyah "Bloody Fellow"
Iskagua "Clear Sky" Shawnee word\\
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from Don Chesnut's web page; www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/cherokee.htm
Iskagua :
Name for "Clear Sky," formerly "Nenetooyah or the Bloody Fellow." The name appears thus in a document of 1791 as that of a Cherokee chief frequently mentioned about that period under the name of "Bloody Fellow." In one treaty it is given as "Eskaqua or Bloody Fellow." Both forms and etymologies are doubtful, neither form seeming to have any reference either to "sky" (galun’lahi) or "blood" (gi’ga). The first may be intended for Ik-e’gwa, "Great day."

More About BLOODY FELLOW, CHIEF:
Attended 1: March 1775, Henderson's Treaty, Sycamore Shoals
Attended 2: November 1788, Eustinauli council
Attended 3: 1791, Philadelphia meeting with George Washington
Attended 4: November 07, 1794, Tellico council

More About JOHN TRADER BENGE:
Blood: Scottish
Emigration: Abt. 1777, TN
Occupation: Indian Trader
Residence: Aft. 1777, Running Water Town, TN

Child of WURTEH WATTS and NATHANIAL GIST is:

196.

GEORGE⁶ GUESS I, b. Abt. 1764, near Tuskeegee, Monroe Co, TN; d. August 1843, near the village of San Fernando, Mexico.

Children of WURTEH WATTS and BLOODY FELLOW are:

ii.

TA-LO-NV-TI-S-GI⁶ II, b. Abt. 1765; d. 1819, Arkansas; m. (1) JENNIE LOWREY; b. Abt. 1780, Tennessee; m. (2) CHEROKEE WOMAN; b. Abt. 1780; d. Bef. 1817.

Notes for TA-LO-NV-TI-S-GI II:
Starr, A32, pg 472: Tah-lon-tee-skee was a prominent Chicamauga warrior in 1792. In the United States_Cherokee October 25, 1805 Doublehead, who had hitherto been an implacable war chief was granted three seperate tracts of one square mile each and Tah-lon-tee-skee received a square mile of land on the north bank of the Tennessee River, for their influence in negotiating the treaty. This action becomming unpopular, Tah-lon-tee-skee emigrated to the Western Cherokee country where he was elected Principal Chief in 1818.
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In 1818, Tah-lon-tee-skee, chief of the Western Cherokee, requested the American Board of Commisioners for Foreign Missions establish a mission in the west. Subsequently, Dwight Mission, near present Russellville AR, was established in the spring of 1820. Tah-lon-tee-skee, having died in the meantime, was succeeded as chief by his brother, John Jolly, the adopted father of Sam Houston, who had moved west in 1818.

More About TA-LO-NV-TI-S-GI II:
Aka (Facts Pg): Aaron Price
Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
Chief: Bet. 1818 - 1820, Principal Chief, CN-Arkansas
Clan: Ani'-Wā'di = Red Paint (Wurteh)

iii.

U-TA-NA, b. Abt. 1766; d. 1838, Virginia.

More About U-TA-NA:
Aka (Facts Pg): The Tail, Utana
Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
Clan: Ani'-Wā'di = Red Paint (Wurteh)
Residence: 1794, Willstown, AL

Children of WURTEH WATTS and JOHN BENGE are:

197.	iv.	ROBERT⁶ BENGE, b. Abt. 1767, probably in the village of Toquo [TN]; d. April 09, 1794, Stone Gap, VA.
198.	v.	LUCY BENGE, b. Abt. 1768; d. October 10, 1846, Greenleaf, CNW.
199.	vi.	_____ BENGE, b. Abt. 1769.
200.	vii.	RICHARD C BENGE, SR, b. Abt. 1770.

79. WHITEMAN-KILLER⁵ WATTS (SISTEROF⁴ DOUBLEHEAD, GREAT³ EAGLE, MOYTOY², A-MA-DO-YA¹) was born Abt. 1754.

More About WHITEMAN-KILLER WATTS:
Aka (Facts Pg): U-ni-na-ga-di-hi Watts
Clan: Ani'-Wā'di = Red Paint (Wurteh)
Translation: U-na-ga = White, U-ni-na-ga = White Men, Di-hi = Killer

Child of WHITEMAN-KILLER WATTS is:

SALLY⁶ WATTS, b. Abt. 1771; d. Aft. 1846; m. _____ BENGE; b. Abt. 1766.

More About SALLY WATTS:
Emigration: 38-04 John Benge Det; E250 #44, old woman in 1846, dau of Whiteman Killer [Unacata Watts]

80. UNKNOWN⁵ WATTS (SISTEROF⁴ DOUBLEHEAD, GREAT³ EAGLE, MOYTOY², A-MA-DO-YA¹) was born Abt. 1756. She married UNKNOWN NATCHEZ. He was born Abt. 1750.

More About UNKNOWN WATTS:
Clan: Ani'-Wā'di = Red Paint (Wurteh)

Notes for UNKNOWN NATCHEZ:
Could this be the Leckickee that commanded a company in the 1814 Creek War?

Child of UNKNOWN WATTS and UNKNOWN NATCHEZ is:

201.

NANCY⁶ _____, b. Abt. 1790; d. 1843.

81. NI-GU-DA-YI⁵ (CHIEF⁴ DOUBLEHEAD, GREAT³ EAGLE, MOYTOY², A-MA-DO-YA¹) was born Abt. 1764. She married SAMUEL RILEY Bef. 1792. He was born 1760, and died 1819.

Notes for SAMUEL RILEY:
A Record Book of The Proceedings of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation;
"The court recognises the will of Samuel Riley, deceased, to be his last will and testament as authenticated by the deposition of R Richards, Phisicien [sic], who attended on said Sam'l Riley, dec'd, in his last sickness, given from under my hand at New Town this 25th of October, 1825.
[signed] John Martin C S C
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M-208 Roll 8 Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee 1801-1835, Correspondence and Miscellaneous Records 1819-1820; letter from George W Foster to Secretary of the Treasury dated 28 April 1819 (received 11 August 1819); in part "...At last March term the suit was to have been tried but about fifteen days before court Riley died. So the suit died. His children all being Indians..."
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Samuel Riley, along with James Chisolm and Thomas Norris Clark, were three white men who seized much of the property (mostly slaves) of Chief Doublehead after his assassination in 1807. Chisolm and Clard were business partners of Chief Doublehead; Riley may well have been his son-in-law.

More About SAMUEL RILEY:
1817-19 Reservations: April 27, 1818, # 68, south side of TN Riv opposite SW Point, in Right of Wife, 8 in fam
Blood: Non-Cherokee
Note: Bet. 1806 - 1807, "White Patron" of Gideon Blackburn's School
Will: October 26, 1825, Cherokee Court recognized Last Will & Testament

Children of NI-GU-DA-YI and SAMUEL RILEY are:

202.	i.	JAMES⁶ RILEY, b. Abt. 1792.
203.	ii.	CATHERINE RILEY, b. Abt. 1800.
204.	iii.	NELSON RILEY, b. Abt. 1802; d. 1856.
205.	iv.	MARTHA RILEY, b. Abt. 1802.
	v.	MADISON RILEY, b. Abt. 1808.

More About MADISON RILEY:
Religion: Abt. 1818, Brainerd Church, Old CN