Foreman family origins

John Anthony Foreman was born about 1744 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his father may have been another John Anthony Foreman. In 1797 Indian Agent Silas Dinsmore provided Tennessee Governor Sevier with a list of white men in the Cherokee Nation. Included was "Anthony Foreman, trader and idler." (Dinsmore to Sevier, March 11, 1797. Transcript at https://www.tngenweb.org/tnletters/cher~e1.htm ) Emmet Starr described John Anthony as a "Scotchman," and granddaughter Malinda Redman said that he was an "Irishman," ( National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application #3839, granddaughter Malinda (Bigby) Redman) but the Moravian missionaries met him in January of 1810 and wrote, "Mr. Foreman, a white man who settled here already some 40 years ago.... was born and reared not far from Philadelphia on the Schuylkill and seems to be of a different character from the white people who have mixed with the Indians here. " (Crews & Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK. Vol. 3, pp. 1359-1360 )

I don't think there is any accurate information on his parents although there are plenty of Internet trees that provide them for him.

I'm not aware of any documentation for parents of John Anthony Foreman. He married two Cherokee women named Susie and Elizabeth (Susie's niece) whose parents are also unknown. There is no evidence for the name "Gourd" and absolutely nothing to connect them with Rattling Gourd (who was 20-25 years younger than Susie). There is a possibility that Susie's father was named Teetarskeeskee.

As usual no clue where Hicks got that information. Starr says "Anthony Foreman married two Cherokee women of the Bling Savannah Clan, Susie and her niece Elizabeth. Susie was the maternal aunt of Elizabeth. Elizabeth died January 8, 1845. (Starr's notes A860 and H879)

Other accounts list Elizabeth as Wuttie or similar. Wuttie was often turned into "Betty" in English, and then extrapolated to "Elizabeth."

TI-TA-S-GI-S-GI is transliterated to Teetarskeeskee. I don't know what supporting docs there might be to support Hicks' theory.

I love that list, the descriptions are priceless! Dinsmore didn't think much of most of the men and he was probably right. I'm sure a lot of men claimed they were "traders" so they wouldn't get thrown out and many of them had Cherokee wives, which Dinsmore probably didn't approve of either.