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Descendants of PRINCIPAL CHIEF MOYTOY As submitted by Nonie Webb Descendants of PRINCIPAL CHIEF MOYTOY Generation No. 1 1. PRINCIPAL CHIEF1 MOYTOY was born Abt. 1687, and died 1741 in Cherokee Nation East (now TN). He married WOMAN OF THE DEAR CLAN. Notes for PRINCIPAL CHIEF MOYTOY: The research for descendants of Moytoy is an ongoing effort, I have ordered microfilm copies of the Drennen, Hester and Chapman Rolls as well as "Cherokee History...." by Emmett Starr. Please check the source for a person or item, some are from other researchers from FamilyTreeMaker, LDS Library, and internet finds, some are from Cherokee Rolls, Cherokee Census, Miller applications and books by and about the Cherokee Indians. If there is no source listed, that means I am unsure or the person I got the information from is unsure and these have not been verified. The names that are in all "caps" are my direct blood line. Use any information you want, but please remember if there is no source listed to use the information only as a guide to further research. You may contact me through e-mail at [email protected] Children of PRINCIPAL MOYTOY and WOMAN CLAN are: 2. i. CLOGOITTAH2 MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1705. ii. KILLAQUE MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1706. iii. OCONOSTOTA MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1707. 3. iv. WILLENAWAH OR GREAT EAGLE, b. Abt. 1709. v. SKALILOSKEN MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1710. vi. OUNACONOA MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1711. vii. KOLLANNAH MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1712. 4. viii. ATTAKULLAKULLA OR THE LITTLE CARPENTER, b. Abt. 1713. 5. ix. TAME DOE MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1715; d. Abt. 1760, Cherokee Nation East (now TN). x. OUKAII-OUKAH MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1716. xi. TATITOWE MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1717. Generation No. 2 As submitted by Nonie Webb 2. CLOGOITTAH2 MOYTOY (PRINCIPAL CHIEF1) was born Abt. 1705. She married CHRISTIAN GOTTILIEB PRIBER. Notes for CLOGOITTAH MOYTOY: Note from source, the actual name of the woman that married Priber is unknown. Notes for CHRISTIAN GOTTILIEB PRIBER: This quote is on page 68 from "The Cherokees" by Grace Steele Woodwand copyright 1963 University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. ("The Cherokees" is volume 65 in The Civilization of the American Indians Series.) "One of the Frenchmen who came to the Cherokee country and established headquarters there around 1736 wa Christian Gottlieb Priber, who represented himself as a Jesuit priest. Priber donned the Cherokee apparel and, outwardly at least, adapted himself to all the Cherokee ways and customs, thus winning a number of converts to the French cause. Onconostota, the war chief, was one of Priber's converts, and so persuaded many of his people to support Priber's erratic plan to make a communistic republic out of the Cherokee Nation. Taking the title of "His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State," Priber asserted that he had received from Moytoy, the Cherokee emperor, this title and permission to organize the tribe into the form of government just mentioned. In this government, all Cherokees were to be equal; goods were to be held in common; children were to be the property of the state; marriage was to be abolished; and each Cherokee was to work for the common good of the Nation, his only personal property to be books, paper, pen and ink." "However, Priber's influence on Oconostota and the other converts was weakened by his captuare in 1739 by English traders, when he was en route to Fort Toulouse to render a report of his activities to the French. Priber was turned over to officials in the Georgia colony, and spent the remainder of his life in the Frederica prison. However, Priber's influence, though diminished, lived on in certain Cherokee settlements for some years. Priber converts, for example blamed the scourage of smallpox in 1738, that reduced the Cherokee population by half, on the English, whom Priber had taught the Cherokees to hate. Priber converts also accused the English of planting smallpox germs in the trading goods sold to the Cherokee." This quote on page 252 of "History of the American Indians" by James Adair first published in London, 1775. (The book is a reprint by Samuel Cole Williams, LL.D. in 1930) "In the year 1736, the French sent into South-Carolina, one Priber, a gentleman of a curious and speculative temper. He was to transmit them a full account of that country, As submitted by Nonie Webb and proceed to the Cheerake nation, in order to seduce them from the British to the French interest. He went, and though he was adorned with every qualification that constitutes the gentleman, soon after he arrived at the upper towns of this mountainous country, he exchanged his clothes and every thing he brought with him, and by that means, made friends with the head warriors of great Telliko, which stood on a branch of the Missisippi. More effectually to answer the design of his commission, he ate, drank, slept, danced, dressed, and painted himself, with the Indians, so that it was not easy to distinguish him from the natives, -he married also with them, and being endued with a strong understanding and retentive memory, he soon learned their dialect, and b gradual advances, impressed them with a very ill opion of the English, representing them as a fraudulent, avaritious, and encroaching people: he at the same time, inflated the artless savages, with a prodigious high opion of their own importance in the American scale of power, on account of the situation of their country, their martial disposition, and the great number of their warriors, which would baffle all the efforts of the ambitious and ill- designing British colonist. " Child of CLOGOITTAH MOYTOY and CHRISTIAN PRIBER is: 6. i. CREAT3 PRIBER, b. 1737-1742, Tellico Plains, TN; d. Abt. 1790, Stearns, McCreary Co, KY ?. 3. WILLENAWAH OR GREAT2 EAGLE (PRINCIPAL CHIEF1 MOYTOY) was born Abt. 1709. Children of WILLENAWAH OR GREAT EAGLE are: 7. i. CHUQUALATAQUE OR3 DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1730, Stearns, KY; d. August 09, 1807, Hiwasse River, TN. 8. ii. KOATEEHEE OR OLD TASSEL, b. Abt. 1728; d. June 1788. 9. iii. WURTEH OR WORTH, b. Abt. 1729. iv. IYAATSUTSA OR PUMPKIN BOY, b. Abt. 1732. 4. ATTAKULLAKULLA OR THE LITTLE2 CARPENTER (PRINCIPAL CHIEF1 MOYTOY) was born Abt. 1713. He married WOMAN OF THE WOLF CLAN. Children of ATTAKULLAKULLA CARPENTER and WOMAN CLAN are: 10. i. TSI-YU-GANSI-NI "DRAGGING CANOE"3 MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1733; d. March 01, 1792, Lookout Town, TN. ii. THE BADDER MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1730. As submitted by Nonie Webb iii. LITTLE OWL MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1731. 5. TAME DOE2 MOYTOY (PRINCIPAL CHIEF1) was born Abt. 1715, and died Abt. 1760 in Cherokee Nation East (now TN). She married SKAYAGUSTUEGWO Abt. 1729. Children of TAME MOYTOY and SKAYAGUSTUEGWO are: i. LONGFELLOW (TUSKEEGEE TEE3 HEE), b. Abt. 1730. 11. ii. NANCY (NANYE'HI) "GHIGHAU", b. Abt. 1736, Chota, City of Refuge, Cherokee Nation, NC; d. 1822, Womankiller Ford, Benton Co, TN. Generation No. 3 6. CREAT3 PRIBER (CLOGOITTAH2 MOYTOY, PRINCIPAL CHIEF1) was born 1737- 1742 in Tellico Plains, TN (Source: James Adair, "History of the American Indians", (1775, London), Priber arrived in Cherokee Country in 1736 and was captured by the English and imprisoned in 1743.), and died Abt. 1790 in Stearns, McCreary Co, KY ?. She married CHUQUALATAQUE OR DOUBLEHEAD 1750-1757 in Stearns, McCreary Co, KY ?, son of WILLENAWAH OR GREAT EAGLE. Children of CREAT PRIBER and CHUQUALATAQUE DOUBLEHEAD are: i. CORNBLOSSOM4 DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1758, Stearns, KY; d. August 09, 1810, Stearns, KY; m. JACOB TROXEL, Abt. 1780, KY. ii. TUCKAHO DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1760. iii. SALEECHIE DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1762. Notes for SALEECHIE DOUBLEHEAD: Could be the daughter of Old Tassel, brother of Doublehead per Charles Austin. iv. GU-LU-STI-YU DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1774. v. NI-GO-DI-GE-YU DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1764. 7. CHUQUALATAQUE OR3 DOUBLEHEAD (WILLENAWAH OR GREAT2 EAGLE, PRINCIPAL CHIEF1 MOYTOY) was born Abt. 1730 in Stearns, KY, and died August 09, 1807 in Hiwasse River, TN. He married CREAT PRIBER 1750-1757 in Stearns, McCreary Co, KY ?, daughter of CHRISTIAN PRIBER and CLOGOITTAH MOYTOY. As submitted by Nonie Webb Children of CHUQUALATAQUE DOUBLEHEAD and CREAT PRIBER are: i. CORNBLOSSOM4 DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1758, Stearns, KY; d. August 09, 1810, Stearns, KY; m. JACOB TROXEL, Abt. 1780, KY. ii. TUCKAHO DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1760. iii. SALEECHIE DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1762. Notes for SALEECHIE DOUBLEHEAD: Could be the daughter of Old Tassel, brother of Doublehead per Charles Austin. iv. GU-LU-STI-YU DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1774. v. NI-GO-DI-GE-YU DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1764. 8. KOATEEHEE OR OLD3 TASSEL (WILLENAWAH OR GREAT2 EAGLE, PRINCIPAL CHIEF1 MOYTOY) was born Abt. 1728, and died June 1788. Children of KOATEEHEE OR OLD TASSEL are: i. YOUNG4 TASSEL, b. Abt. 1748. ii. DOUBLEHEAD TASSEL, b. Abt. 1750. 9. WURTEH OR3 WORTH (WILLENAWAH OR GREAT2 EAGLE, PRINCIPAL CHIEF1 MOYTOY) was born Abt. 1729. She married NATHANIEL GIST. Child of WURTEH WORTH and NATHANIEL GIST is: i. SEQUOTAH4 GIST, b. 1750-1760. 10. TSI-YU-GANSI-NI "DRAGGING CANOE"3 MOYTOY (ATTAKULLAKULLA OR THE LITTLE2 CARPENTER, PRINCIPAL CHIEF1 MOYTOY) was born Abt. 1733, and died March 01, 1792 in Lookout Town, TN. He married LEAF Abt. 1747. Notes for TSI-YU-GANSI-NI "DRAGGING CANOE" MOYTOY: This quote on page37 of "Nancy Ward: Cherokee Chieftainess Dragging Canoe: Cherokee- Chickamauga War Chief" by Pat Alderman, Copyright 1978, printed by The Overmountain Press. As submitted by Nonie Webb "While a young boy, [The Canoe] this future Chief wanted to accoumpany his father, Attakullakulla, and a Cherokee War Party going to battle the Shawnee. Attakullakulla flatly refused the young boy permission to go; but he slipped away from home ahead of the War Party and hid in a dugout canoe he knew the warriors must use.
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