Chief Chaquelataque Doublehead

Chaquelataque Doublehead was a Cherokee man
(Curator note: it is said the pat the word Chaquelataque was a title, not a name, but I’m told by someone who speaks Cherokee that the word has no translation but it essentially means that Doublehead had two heads? The term has been removed from use until there is further evidence of its use.). Update 6/6/2023: Doublehead himself used the name Chuquelataque - he signed next to it on the 1794 treaty at Philadelphia. https://digitreaties.org/treaties/treaty/170281460/ He wrote "DH" next to it on the treaty, so he may have had some knowledge of English.

Ratified Indian Treaty 20: Cherokee - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1794 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/170281460?objectPage=5''
A pdf copy of the treaty signed by Chaquelataque Doublehead has been uploaded to the media tab.

Disputed Origins

While much has been written about Doublehead, going back to documents from the time of his life and death, none of these identify Doublehead’s origins or parents.

While he first shows up in historical records in the 1770s, there is no contemporaneous record of place of birth, date, or parents. All are later speculations, predominantly created after the middle of the 20th century.

One theory that has been advanced is that he was the son of Willenwah Great Eagle (1720-1807) and Wurteh Red Paint Clan (1710-1770).[citation needed]

A previous version of this profile claimed, without source that his parents were Utsi'dsata (Corn Tassel) and Woman of Ani-Wadi. They have been detached.

Corn Tassel was Doublehead's brother.[citation needed]

Biography

Knowing where he lived, when he first shows up in records, and who his relatives were, make a late 1740s Tellico area birth probable.

Probable siblings based on references in various documents and histories:

Old Tassel
Pumpkin Boy
Sequeechee
Unknown wife of white trader John Watts
Nani/Nancy

Doublehead (1744–1807) or Incalatanga (Tal-tsu'tsa in Cherokee), was one of the most feared warriors of the Cherokee during the Chickamauga Wars. In 1788, his brother, Old Tassel, was chief of the Cherokee people, but was killed under a truce (negotiating peace) by frontier rangers. In 1791 Doublehead was among a delegation of Cherokees who visited U.S. President George Washington in Philadelphia. After the peace treaty at the Tellico Blockhouse in 1794, Doublehead served as one of the leaders of the Chickamauga (or "Lower Cherokee"). Upon the death of his nephew, Principal Chief John Watts, in 1802, Doublehead was chosen as leader of the Chickamauga (taking on the title Chuqualataque).[1]. (Curator Note: we’ve discussed this with on3 who speaks Cherokee and are advised that the word is not translatable but that it means simply Doublehead had two heads.)

Assassinated in McIntosh Tavern by Charles Hicks, Alexander Saunders, and Major Ridge. (Curator Note: Some say James Vann instead of Charles Hicks, but it appears that if James Vann were to be involved, he was too drunk at the time to participate!)

Marriages

While the number of Doublehead’s children, records, and testimony of descendants suggests that Doublehead had as many as five different wives, there are only two that are named in documents. The first two are named in depositions filed regarding Doublehead’s estate and Eastern Cherokee applications of descendants.[1] The third, name unknown, is assumed based on known daughters. She may have been more than one woman.

1. Nannie Drumgoole, supposed daughter of ALEXANDER DRUMGOOLE and NANCY AUGUSTA and died on July 23, 1850.[2]
2. Kateeyah Wilson
3. Unknown Cherokee woman/women – the mother or mothers of Saleechie and her unnamed sister, and sisters Nigodigayu and Gulustiyu.

Disputed Wives

4. Creat Priber. While there is some suggestion that Christian Priber may have cohabitated with a Cherokee woman between 1736-1744, there is no solid evidence to identify either his Cherokee female mate, nor any offspring that might have resulted from such a union. There is no proof that Creat Priber ever existed.
5. DOUBLEHEAD is thought to have married a Delaware woman sometime in the middle of the 18th century when the Cherokee and Delaware leaders were seeking inter-tribal peace. Although no written documentation exists of this marriage, oral traditions in southern Kentucky are plentiful. This wife was supposedly the mother of Cornblossom/Pawalin (see below), who in fact did not exist. Her existence was introduced about 2007 by Tankersley when the “Creat Priber-as-mother” myth was busted.
Jennie Harrison appears in James Hicks' Cherokee Lineages tree on Rootsweb. No documentation, no children.

Children

There are only 9 named children of Doublehead in the records:
1. Bird (sometimes referred to as Bird Head); son of Nannie Drumgoole,[3] born in 1795 in Tennessee and died about 1857. James Hicks lists his wife as TIMSON without documentation. Per Eastern Cherokee application #10725 she died two weeks after the birth of son Bird, who never knew her name.
2. Peggy, daughter of Nannie Drumgoole;[4] born and died before 1835. She married WILLIAM WILSON on 4 April 1824 in Madison County, Alabama.[5]
3.Susannah, daughter of Kateeyah Wilson., She married GEORGE CHISHOLM.[6]
4. Alcey, daughter of Kateeyah Wilson.She married GILES MCNULTY.[7]
5. Tassel, son of Kateeyah Wilson.[8]
6. Two Heads, mother unknown[9]
7. William, mother unknown[10]
8. Name unknown (sister of next); died before the 1818 census, buried at Colbert home near Colbert’s Ferry per 1834 census.
9. Saleechee/Salitsi[11] died 1846 in Indian Territory.

While Emmett Starr does not name the following women as daughters of Doublehead, their marriage to Samuel Riley and documents related to Doublehead’s estate make it a strong probability that the following were also his daughters:

10. Nigodagayu; married Samuel Riley.
11. Gulustiyu; also married Samuel Riley (plural marriage).[12]

Sources for the others include depositions of Bird Doublehead and his cousin Catherine Spencer, and Eastern Cherokee applications of descendants.[13]

Government Land Agreements

• 1825 Oct.25 & 27 & 7 Jan 1806 (Treaties) - Secretary of War, US Government, Secret agreement with Chief Doublehead.[14]
• Controversy Concerning Doublehead Tract - Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Smithsonian Institution (Published by US Government Printing Office - Page 192[15] "... it was really intended for the Cherokee chief Doublehead and other influential persons, as the price of their influence in ... by the treaty commissioners3 and made a matter of record, but it was never sent to the State Department nor to the Senate for the ... 1- See field notes of Colonel Martin on file in office of Indian Affairs.", 2- Letter of R.J.Meigs- Secretary of War- March 4, 1811, 3- Letter of Meigs and Smith to the Secretary of War, Jan 10, 1806
• Letters of Benjamin Hawkins 1796-1806, pages 361, 371, 372, 380, 382, 383[16]
• Letters Between Doublehead & Govenor Blount, & other Letters referencing Chief Doublehead[17]

Disproven Children

1. Cornblossom/Pawalin. She, along with her supposed brother Tuckahoe, first appeared as children of Doublehead in Thomas H. Troxel’s 1958 largely fictional book, Legion of the Lost Mine.
2. Keziah’s origin is unknown, although some claim she is named in Catherine Spencer’s deposition.[18] Careful reading shows that Catherine was referring to her aunt, Kateeyah Wilson Doublehead.
3. Tuskeahookto/Tusgiahute. Recent research by Don Martini has shown that the name of George Colbert’s second Cherokee wife is actually unknown and that Tuskeahookto is a third wife who married George Colbert in 1834 and was the widow of a man named Tyieska.[19]
4. Tukaho was a 20th century invention, first appearing in a 1950s fictional work. Others ran with this theory and claimed he married MARGARET MOUNCE, Chery (sic) Fork, (Helenwood, Tennessee); about 1768. The same fictional work claimed he was murdered in 1807 at Doublehead's Gap, Kentucky
5. Doublehead Doublehead.

Sources

1. ↑ Transcriptions at AMERIND-US-SE-L/200-12/0977343555 and AMERIND-US-SE-L/2000-12/0977343614 EC apps 10725(Bird Doublehead) 447 (John Springston).
2. ↑ Cherokee Advocate, Aug 6, 1850, Obituary of Nancy Springston; Eastern Cherokee Application # 448, John L. Springston
3. ↑ deposition of Bird Doublehead, 21 June, 1838 Transcriptions at AMERIND-US-SE-L/200-12/0977343555 and AMERIND-US-SE-L/2000-12/0977343614, reproduced at depositions
4. ↑ Depositions of Bird Doublehead and Catherine Spencer @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Depositions_of_Bird_Doublehead_...
5. ↑ "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZVC-J81 : 26 September 2017), William Wilson and Peggy Doublehead, 04 Apr 1824; citing Madison, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,305,696.
6. ↑ Depositions of Bird Doublehead and Catherine Spencer @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Depositions_of_Bird_Doublehead_...
7. ↑ Depositions of Bird Doublehead and Catherine Spencer @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Depositions_of_Bird_Doublehead_...
8. ↑ Depositions of Bird Doublehead and Catherine Spencer @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Depositions_of_Bird_Doublehead_...
9. ↑ Eastern Cherokee application #10725, BIrd Doublehead
10. ↑ Eastern app #10725
11.↑ “Autobiography of Rev Jacob Young,” quoted in Methodism in Mississippi, Jones, pp 193-195.
12. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 432
13. ↑ Eastern Cherokee application 10725, Bird Doublehead, Message board posts by Jim Hicks, Rootsweb, AMERIND-US-SE-L 2002-12
14. ↑ Secret Agreement w/Doublehead/US/ Congressional Record Series, 1889, pg 191-193, See Also original Government Source @ bottom of each page), accessed 29 Jun 2020 by Arora, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Congressional_Serial_Set/rXwpA...
15. ↑ Controversy Concerning Doublehead Tract - Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the of the Smithsonian Institution, Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, books.google.com › books, 1887, Page 192, accessed 29 Jun 2020 by Arora, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annual_Report_of_the_Bureau_of...
16. ↑ Letters of Benjamin Hawkins 1796-1806, pages 361, 371, 372, 380, 382, 383, Google Books, accessed 29 Jun 2020 by Arora, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Letters_of_Benjamin_Hawkins_17...
17. ↑ American State Papers, pgs- XXII, 275 447 533 657, accessed 29 Jun 2020 by Arora, https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_State_Papers/hbWsTT4M...
18. ↑ example: Geni profile Ks-ti-e-ie-ah "Kizzie" Dishman
29. ↑ Don Martini, The Chickasaw Colberts: Corrections to Colbert Family Genealogy, 2015.

See also:

• Rickey Butch Walker, Doublehead Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief page 38
• Kinship Notes by Kenneth Barnett Tankersley, Ph.D. (Curator Note: This author is considered a “Fake Indian” by Raymond Pierotti in his blog Ancestor Stealing @ http://ancestorstealing.blogspot.com/2017/08/, I’m not sure why WikiTree cites this!)
• Wikipedia contributors. "Doublehead." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 8 Apr. 2023. Web. 4 Jun. 2023. @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublehead
• Cooley, Billy Joe, and Charles Rice, editors. “Doublehead The Cherokee Cannibal.” Old Huntsville , 1996, pp. 2–8. (Curator Note: myths, legends and other forms of fiction,)

Source: The WikiTree Native American Project @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cherokee-42
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(Curator Note: This James Hicks profile is partially suspect, it follows his usual belief that descent of this chief was from Amatoya Moytoy, a theory that has been disproven. Further, the marriage to CREAT PRIBER has been disputed and no evidence seems to exist of her being)

CHIEF DOUBLEHEAD (GREAT3EAGLE, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born Abt. 1744 in Stearns, KY, and died August 09, 1807 in Hiwasse River, TN. (Curator Note: FAG is wrong, it bases the burial location on a 1 Sep 1964 news article in The McCreary County Record which says “Doublehead now lies buried where he fell, in Doublehead Gap, (near) Kidder, Wayne County Kentucky.” This same article says that he was killed by a man named Jones! Not at all a reliable source)
He married (1) CREAT PRIBER Abt. 1757 in Stearns, KY, daughter of CHRISTIAN GOTTILIEB PRIBER. She was born Abt. 1740 in Tellico Plains, TN, and died Abt. 1790 in Stearns, McCreary Co, KY?.
He married (2) NANNIE DRUMGOOLE Abt. 1794, daughter of ALEXANDER DRUMGOOLE and NANCY AUGUSTA. She was born Abt. 1779, and died July 23, 1850.
He married (3) KATEEYEAH WILSON Abt. 1797, daughter of _____ WILSON. She was born Abt. 1760.
He married (4) missing…
He married (5) JENNIE HARRISON Bef. 1807, daughter of THOMAS HARRISON and OLLIE-MOLLIE.
She was born Abt. 1792, and died Abt. 1824.

• from Don Chesnut's web page; www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/cherokee.htm

Tal-tsu’ska’ : "Two-heads," fro ta’li, two, and tsu’ska’, plural of uska’, (his) head. A Cherokee chief about the year 1800, known to the whites as Doublehead. Doublehead's Indian name has also been listed as Dsu-gwe-la-de-gi and as Chuqualatague. (Curator note: Chuqualatague is a title, not a name)

• Blood: Full Blood Cherokee
• Clan: Ani'-Wâ'di = Red Paint (Wurteh)

Notes for NANNIE DRUMGOOLE:

• Starr lists Nannie "the Pain" as Nannie Drumgoole nee Doublehead.
• [Cherokee Advocate, Aug 6, 1850, Obituary of Nancy Springston] Born c. 1775 - died July 23, 1850.Her four surviving children were at her side at the time of her death at the house of Anderson Springston. She also had 73 grandchildren.
• A Springston descendant, John L. Springston, provides additional information Nannie Drumgoole Doublehead on his Miller application: John L. Springston notes on his Miller Application:

“Sir:My grandmother on my fathers side was named Nancy. She was a full blood Indian of the Cherokee Tribe. She had four sets of children, Springston, Foreman, Wilson and Doublehead and as I understand the case, she must have been enrolled in 1835,36.1846 & 1833 or earlier than 1835.I want to find her name and her families by name. My grandfathers name was John. I think he had by his marriage to her three children - Anderson, my father, & Isaac & Edley Springston. My uncles by her Foreman marriage she had only one I am aware, his name was Jim or James Foreman.By her Doublehead marriage she had only one as far as I know, his name was Bird Doublehead.Her marriage to Wilson I am lost. She died prior to 1851 (this contradicts his other statement).Now as far as the Cherokee Indian record will show her I wish an examination thereof - my fatheer Anderson Springston was born 10-13-1814 and I think Isaac was older than he - Edley I am unable to say. Nancy, my said grandma had two brothers and two sisters as I was informed by my father & mother both and I ask as to who her census shows they were - if possible - as to claim on them.I cannot be any to certain, or not enough to swear to positive.I ask for such information as is possible from the rolls showing them so I can apply with a certainty. They were all emigrants and resided in Delaware District Cherokee Nation West and I think in Tennessee East - not far from Gunters Landing on the Tennessee River.It is my desire to apply for all possible where (the rest is illegible).”:This is signed 10-8-1906.

• In another letter he states that she had two brothers and two sisters,
• Another letter states: “Nan-que-se, my grandmother Nancy Springston’s niece — Nancy in same family, the relation bore to each I do not know– also, Isaac, sister of my grandmother Nancy –Che-ne-lern-ky — relationship only as fixed by the relationship existing between the named emigrants.
• Another bit of interesting data on Chief Doublehead from a lodger on the Reserve, Catherine Spencer. This comes from annotations of James Raymond Hicks’ Cherokee Lineages, updated August 29, 2004:

“Came Catherine Spencer and makes oath that she lived at the house of Doublehead the Chief when he was killed which was many years ago, she thinks it was about 27 years ago, and that she lived in his family about 12 years. Applicant is the niece of Old Doublehead, and is the only daughter and child of E-yah-chu-tlee (Pumpkin Boy), a brother of Doublehead, and Chau-e-u-kah is her mother, and was then a grown woman about 19 years old; and affiant states that the following described property was there and belonged to Doublehead the Chief when he was killed – to wit,

One negro man named Andrew about 21 years old, very likely $1000.00 One young negro man named Joe a Race Rider, very smart $650.00 One mullatto boy named Ben, 16 years old $600.00 one brother of his named George, 14 years old $550.00 one negro boy named Jacob about 15 years old $550.00 -$2350.00

one negro man named Riddle about 22 years old 800,00 one negro woman named Phebe about 25 or 6 years old $500.00 and her four children, the oldest 10 & youngest 2 years old at $200 each on an average is $800.00 one negro woman named Mary or Polly about 23 years old $500.00 with her two children – $350.00

Austin, a man between thirty & 40 years old $600.00 and his wife Magon about 30 years old, a house woman, good cook, washer & Ironer $600.00 with five children the oldest a boy 12 years old & ranging from him down to the youngest about 2 years old, all worth on an average $200 each –$1000.00 This man and woman came by the death of the applicants father to the Old Chief Doublehead with this affiant when she was moved to his [quarters] after the death of her father, and from this man and woman these 5 children were raised and all these seven negros were [once] the right of this applicant but affiant does not know where it is now — affiant declares most solemnly on her oath that she never sold them to any body nor been paid one dollar for them–

all of the above described negroes were there before the Georgia negroes were brought there, & applicant states that a white man named Chisholm was gone to Georgia to collect money due Old Doublehead when he was killed & shortly after that Chisholm returned with nine grown negroes from Georgia and left them there as a part of Doubleheads property and said he got those nine negroes in place of the money due unto Doublehead – affiant and the other Cherakees [evidently?] then took these nine negroes and put them in the negro cabins with the other negroes and provided for them as for the other negroes of Doublehead and they remained there as a part of his estate untill taken off by the white men; five of these Georgia negroes were men worth $700 each — ?,00 and the other four women worth $500 each -$2000.00 all stout able negroes and well grown, the names not recalled nor the ages –

There were 30 head of cows & calves worth $12.00 each –$360.00 and about 100 head of fine stock cattle, big sturdy [heifers] all worth 5 to 8 dollars each $650.00 one fine stud horse at home worth as the people said $700.00 and one other stud horse at South West Point said by the people to be worth $1000.00 and there were 8 other fine mares and geldings bought of Rik-e-ti-yah, John Christy’s mother, worth $100 each –$800.00 and nine other head of common [draw?] horses [ruous?] and colts worth about 50 or 60 dollars each, say 55 on an average $495.00 and [five good eail?] horses called first rate & worth $500.00. Doublehead paid a fine negro named Mary for the 8 bought of John Christy’s mother with a view to increase his stock of horses, and that negro was not any of thoses housed here – this John Christy has gone to Sekausas.

50 head of sows & pigs & shoots and small stock hogs running about the house $3.00 each –$150.00 one hundred head of large hogs running out in the woods worth $5.00 is –$500.00
4 large first rate beds & bedding & bedsteads worth $40 each –$160.00
6 [windsor?] chairs at 2.00 each 12.00
12 common du .50 cts 6.00
1 case of bottles & liquor –10.00
4 doz plates –4.00
8 dishes, all large –6.00
2 good tables –8.00
1 fine du –1.50
2 large pots –10.00
3 large ovens –9.00
2 smaller pots –2.00
1 dinner pot –2.00
1 brass kettle, common size 2.50
1 tea kettle –1.50
3 pair of iron fire dogs 4.50
1 saddle & bridle & brace of pistols
a good saddle part worn =15.00
the pistols first rate with a case & working 30.00

[Prince] according to her best [yu agrement] of the value of such articles of property & affiant states that Doublehead had a store there and a white man named Phillips was the clerk and [rate for ach] and the Cherokee people came there daily and bought goods for cash and Phillips refused to sell goods on a credit to the Cherokees. it was a comendable stock worth about two or three thousand dollars, and Doublehead told affiant just before he was killed that he had three thousand dollars in a trunk in the store room – – affiant saw large quantities of money in Phillips hands but cannot state how much as she never counted it; affiant did not know of her uncle buying any thing after that time and thinks there would have been as much as more than $3000 cash on hand- affiant admits it to be true that she does not know so well about the store and the money because Phillips the white man had the entire IOU that of it when Doublehead was died and and did not show the money any more and did not communicate the situation of it to affiant – that year a white man named Samuel [Llebarrinan alrevceed] for Doublehead and was making a good crop and [anocianally] all the big negroes [icraekill] out. — The [Observer] quit there [loan] after Doublehead was killed — Bird Doublehead and his brother were sent to school and boarding at the [Clarks] and Peggy Peggy and Sucunnah and [Fley] will [aff aho] None of the children of Doublehead were there nor does affiant recollect of their comming there — they were all very young. Bird was the aldest & many years younger than this affiant and no claims came through to protect their rights or secure their property –[lit surrued] that after their father was killed by his people that the children were also endangered by the nation –this affiant [averried] and managed as well as she could do.

Affiant states that as soon as the news came that Doublehead was killed Phillips shut up the store and kept it shut up and quit selling goods — The crop was continued working by the negroes the others [heuinep] of Doublehead went on untill towards fall when four white men came there and stayed four or five days, — these white men talked to Phillips a good long time and they seemed to be counselling together but affiant could not understand them — these white men after talked to the negroes and after about four days councelling the white men asked affiant and her Aunts & [Soney] Thau-ti-ne – all Doublehead and Wah-hatch a brother of Doublehead to [guerite] a [loam] and these one of the white man named Black proposed that all the negroes and horses and cattle and hogs and all the removable property should be taken care off for the children of Old Doublehead this Black was the man with whom Bird Doublehead had been and was there boording at whoal – It was asked by the whites whether this should be done or not and none of the Cherokees countered to it, but Phillips the store keeper gave his consent to it and he went off with the three white men and they carried all the goods boxes and trunks and all belongings to the store (off with them) and all the above described articles of property and negroes, and cattle and horses and hogs [t&] off with them and they [neuii] ande paid for [norletuiua] any more — one of the negroes named Andrew who could speak and understand both English & Cherokee stated to affiant that he understood what the white men said and he told this affiant that these white men were not [meaning] to save the negroes and the other property for the children of Doublehead and that they were [meaning] to get it all for their own use and fixing to steal it and that if the white men did act so with the property he Andrew would run away and come back to the nation again. The other negroes seemed to be concerned that these white men would take them to where Bird Doublehead was and went cheerfully and the negroes assisted the white men in collecting the stock and loading up the waggon and one of the negroes drove off the team and the plantation was left without any human beeing on it but her aunts and Wah-ha-ti-hi It was the understanding with all the Indians that the children were to have all this property at last. Wah-ha-ti-hi got some Indians to [aprint hein] and they gathered the crops and put it away and no more white men came there to [couriett] for the goods of the heirs of Old Doublehead, and this affiant and her two Aunts [Sorrey & Ks-ti-e-ie-ah Doublehead and Wah-ha-ti-hi [mode urea it thermires] — Black and these other white men did not say that Doublehead owed them money, but only said that the property should be taken care of for the use of his heirs and this affiant and other [kinfolks] did not consent [uren] to that for this affiant these thoughts are known at the time that this affiant and the other Cherokees could have taken as good care of it as these friendly white men could do.”

Swarn to transcribed before me this 8th June 1838
[Leirniz Lieiculf]
Commissioner
her
Catherine X Spencer mark
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More About NANNIE DRUMGOOLE:

• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee

More About JENNIE HARRISON:

• Clan: Ani'-Wa'ya = Wolf Clan (Peggy Scott?)

Children of CHIEF DOUBLEHEAD and CREAT PRIBER are:

	i.	 	DU-KA-HO5 DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1758; m. MARGARET MOUNCE, Chery Fork, now Helenwood, TN; b. Abt. 1768.

	ii.	 	DU-S-GI-A-HU-TE DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1760; d. Abt. 1817, Colbert Ferry, Colbert Co, AL; m. GEORGE COLBERT, COL; b. 1764; d. January 07, 1839, Ft Towson, IT.

	More About GEORGE COLBERT, COL:

Blood: 1/2 Chickasaw

	iii.	 	SA-LI-TSI DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1762; d. February 01, 1846, IT; m. GEORGE COLBERT, COL; b. 1764; d. January 07, 1839, Ft Towson, IT.

	More About GEORGE COLBERT, COL:

Blood: 1/2 Chickasaw
81. iv. NI-GU-DA-YI, b. Abt. 1764.
82. v. GU-LU-S-TI-YU, b. Abt. 1766.

Children of CHIEF DOUBLEHEAD and NANNIE DRUMGOOLE are:
83. vi. BIRD TAIL5 DOUBLEHEAD, b. 1795, Tennessee; d. Abt. 1857.
84. vii. PEGGY DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1800; d. Abt. 1834.

Children of CHIEF DOUBLEHEAD and KATEEYEAH WILSON are:

	viii.	 	TASSEL5 DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1798; d. August 1807.

85. ix. ALCY DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1800; d. Aft. 1838.

	x.	 	SUSANNAH DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1805; d. Aft. 1838; m. GEORGE CHISHOLM; b. 1814, Arkansas; d. Aft. 1842.

Children of CHIEF DOUBLEHEAD are:

	xi.	 	TWO HEADS5 DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1804.

	More About TWO HEADS DOUBLEHEAD:

Note: could the mother be Jennie "Doublehead" Foster?
86. xii. _____ DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1805.

	xiii.	 	WILLIAM DOUBLEHEAD, b. Abt. 1806.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Amatoya Moytoy” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com,, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0021...
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Curator Research Notes

1) Doublehead is historically complex, he lived a life which has become full of myth, fantasy and legend, each event embellished time after time, reading after reading, blog after blog by the internet. The internet is a double edged sword…many sites promulgate fiction in the guise of history in the eye of the author. It’s not possible to discern the reasons behind intentional or unintentional deception. Historical fiction is a recognized genre. Please review the following documents published by WikiTree’s Native American Project:
1) Cornblossom, Doublehead and Jacob Troxel, An Examination of the claims, their sources and implications for WikiTree Profiles created Fall 2017, last updated 16 Feb 2021 @ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vK50BYKbKAir9mp37dIqNh-TJoc6gCQ...
2) TROXEL, Cornblossom and Doublehead: An Annotated Bibliography @ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tu_dd3IL1yRMQWkVaf6g5fS2TTkpazy...

2) Purported image of Doublehead is erroneous!
The image on the cover of this book by Rickey Butch Walker,

Doublehead Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief is NOT Doublehead!
The image is of (Cunne Shote) Standing Turkey/Gvnagadoga, Cherokee Chief and is from an engraving

by James McArdell of London c. 1763 printed for by James Macardell, printed for Robert Sayer.

of an original mezzotint by Francis Parsons in 1762 commemorating his visit to England. When hostilities of the The Anglo-Cherokee War abated, he was amongst three Cherokee leaders to accompany Virginian-born Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, a colonial Anglo-American officer, to London in 1762. The trip was to reaffirm a peace treaty between the Cherokee and the British Crown, ending three years of war.

3) Charges of Treason

After Doublehead’s death, it came to light that he and Colonel Meigs had colluded to include much more land than had been ceded by the Cherokee. For a summary of these treaties with Meigs and the US Government see Today in Cherokee History @ Trail of the Trail blogspot Posted 25th October 2011 by W. Jeff Bishop using Borders and Treaties Primary Source Documents provided by the Trail of Tears Association, Tennessee Chapter @ http://trailofthetrail.blogspot.com/2011/10/today-in-cherokee-histo....

4) Approximately forty “mostly cast-offs from other Cherokee and Creek villages,” moved to Blue Water with Doublehead. Doublehead built a story and a half log house on the hill overlooking Blue Water Creek.

Source: Pam Kingsbury, University of North Alabama, “Chief Doublehead,” Omeka at Auburn, accessed June 5, 2023, https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/items/show/243.

5) Excerpt from Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date:
Name: Bird Doublehead (son of Bird Doublehead)
Post Office: Muskogee, Oklahoma
Residence Address:
Date of Birth: About 1843
Place of Birth: near Salina, Saline District, Cherokee Nation, I. T.
Father: Bird Doublehead
Place of Birth: Georgia
Information on father:
Mother: __?__ Timson
Place of birth: Georgia
Information on mother:
Field Worker: L.W. Wilson

Father - Bird Doublehead. Born in Georgia, and first settled in Arkansas. I don’t know the date of his birth or death.
Mother - First name unknown, last name TIMSON, was born in Georgia and first settled in Arkansas.

Migration
The information that I have as to the migration of my parents, who came west from Georgia - came on their own free will, paid their own expenses and settled around the present town of Coal Hill south and east of Fort Smith, Arkansas. This removal from Georgia to Arkansas was about the year of 1815.
They remained there about thirteen years thus and then moved to the Indian Territory in 1828, and settled in the Saline District at which place I was born.

My aunt has told me that later these Western Cherokees like my parents were increased with the Eastern Cherokees who came by various methods and ways to the Indian Territory. She told me they came here (meaning the Eastern Cherokees) in 1837 and ‘38.

I do not know how old I am because my parents died when I was just a small babe. I had an old Aunt, and she told me that I was born in the Saline District near the town of Salina, in the year that the inter-tribal peace conference was held at Tahlequah, which was in the year of 1843. She told me that twenty-three different tribes of Indians was represented at this peace conference.

I am a full-blood Western Cherokee Indian, could not talk the English language until I was fifteen years old. When only a mere lad, a Mr. Alexander D. WILSON (son of George and Ruthy Wilson) came after me up in the Saline District, and brought me to his farm on McClain Creek on Maynard Bayou, east of Fort Gibson. This was in the year 1856. Alex’s father and mother died in 1850 and 1851 and were buried on this farm. George was sixty-four years of age when he died and Ruthy was about two years younger. The Wilsons were Cherokees. Alex, the one who came after me, died in 1858. He belonged to the Masonic order. His wife’s name (Alex’s wife) was Beckie, and within a year Alex’s brother, Arch Wilson, married Alex’s widow.

It was while I was with Alex these two years that I attended school. This was the Wilson school and was on the Wilson farm located about one mile east of the house. It was an old log schoolhouse and the ___ is there no longer.

Arch Wilson and his wife, Beckie, and I moved from the Wilson farm down on the Illinois River in what is known as the Linder Bend District. (The Lewis ROGERS farm today was the Wilson farm.)…
The complete interview can be found here: https://okgenweb.net/pioneer/ohs/doubleheadbird.html

Source: University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collection “Interview with Bird Doublehead of Muskogee, Oklahoma.” University of Oklahoma, 1938. Interviewer: L.W. Wilson. Interviewee: Bird Doublehead. Interview ID - None, Volume 25 - 8 microfiche, Microfiche #601689
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The following documents related to claims made by Bird Doublehead regarding the estate of his father, the Cherokee Chief Doublehead are on file at the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. They were transcribed by James Hicks in 2002 and posted to the Rootsweb AMERIND-US-SE mailing list in December, 2002.

(Estate of Doublehead Jim Hicks 12/20/2000, 8:20:14 AM) Testimony of Bird Doublehead re: Estate of Doublehead Cherokee Agency East Bird Doublehead, Son of Doublehead, a Cherokee Chief, makes that he had for some years previous to the time his father was killed as well as after and recalls its about 29 years ago he had been living at [Thomas Aorned: Clark's] at Kingston [Inn pu] for the purpose of going to school and was living at Clark's at the time his father was killed. In the fall prior to his death affiant went home to his father's at the Muscle Schoals on the Tennessee river on a visit and remained at his fathers house about 3 months, and again at the expiration of that time affiant returned to Clark's and continued to reside with him as affiant some time in the year 1812 and was residing there at the time of his father's death.

At the time affiant was at his father's last before his father's death and at during another time which affiant lived at home. Affiant recollects well to have seen a considerable quantity of property belonging to his father. Consisting of a large stock of horses, he thinks 30 or 40 head, old and young. Among them one brown stud horse purchased by affiant's father from Old Peelin for the sum of $1000, one thousand dollars. This horse [mare] a stand at South West Point.

Affiant's father was a stock [raiser] and had some fine breed mares and was trying to improve his stock of horses. There was also a large stock of cattle of which affiant's father had given affiant 20 head as part of the cattle belonging to affiants step mother the wife of the Chief Doublehead which part affiant presumes Thomas Wilson her brother got at Doublehead's death, but Doublehead still owned a considerable stock of cattle besides. He had as affiant believes also a large stock of hogs he is unable to say how many.

He also had a large quantity of valuable household and kitchen furniture worth as affiant believes at least $600. affiant states there was a store there but affiant is unable to give any account of the quantity or value of the goods therein but thinks there was a pretty general aportionment. Affiant remembers that when affiant went home the fall before his ^father carried down the [money] in the boat an [abhtimal] stock of goods and after [setting/selling] some of them in the boat he put the ballance in the store with the other goods and a white man called Phillips kept the store. affiant thinks there could not have been less than $3000 worth of goods in the store.

Affiant thinks the goods were not sold on a credit. Doublehead had also a considerable stock of negroes besides those afterwards brought from Georgia. Those negroes he had owned many years [torn part] of time before the recollection of affiant. Others were born there, and [Ms yellow boyz Bins oGimjyd] very likely were bought by Doublehead a few years before his death but affiant cannot recollect the precise numbers but believes there were at least 20 perhaps more at and before the time of Doublehead's death.

Affiant's brother Tassel also went with him and boarded at Clark's. Affiant thinks $100 per year was the sum agreed to be paid to Clark for boarding each of us affiant and Tassel. Tassel died at Clark's about 2 weeksafter Doublehead was killed. affiant was then about 12 years of age, continued boarding at Clark's and did not go home but remained there at school. Affiant had no guardian appointed for him, nor did he directly or indirectly take upon himself the control or management of the property of his father's estate. Affiant had 3 sisters none of whom were at home when Doublehead was killed. One of them, Peggy, was living with her mother in what is now McMinn Co, TN. The others, Ms Susannah & Alcy were at Hiwassee Garrison at school.

The next fall after Doublehead was killed Clark went to the Muscle Shoals and to the late residence of affiant's father's ^he did not inform affiant when he started what was his beliefs or where he was going. After an absence of some weeks Clark returned home to Kingston and brought with him 21, twenty one, negroes & some horses. Phillips the store keeper also came back with Clark. Phillips informed affiant that Clark had got the negroes and horses at the residence of affiant's father's and that some other negroes had also been taken that belonged to Doublehead [torn part] and had been by him delivered over to some other men, one of them to [Wau hatchy] one to [Ulau hatchy] his brother, two Cherokees, and one to Chisholm a white man, and the balance to some person or persons who are not recalled at present.

Affiant was confident Phillips statement in relation to the property was true from the fact that of the negroes brought by Clark there were several affiant had himself known to have been in his father's family many years Jarrit, Austin, Magin, Andrew and Pheby and Peter Dempsy and some others which affiant understood had come from Georgia. affiant understands that Clark has disposed of the property which he took of the estate of affiant's father and has applied the [proceeds] to his own use [some] of the property affiant knows he sold one negro, Peter, to Sam [Martin] and other portions of the property affiant is informed he sold of which is one negro, Dempsy, a [brother?] to [Crozing] of Knoxville. affiant remained at Clark's for upwards of 2 years perhaps 3 years after his father's death. The latter part of which time Clark did not send affiant to school but put him in the field to plough and about 6 months of the time in a Black Smith Shop to blow and strike.

When affiant's mother came after him and took him away. When affiant started Clark let him have one [Roane] pony 5 or 6 years old to ride away with his mother and an old saddle and bridle worth in all not exceeding $32 or 40. Clark never let affiant have any of the property or money of said estate except the pony, bridle, saddle, noit even money to bear affiant's expenses home. Nor did affiant believe Clark ever accounted to affiant's said sisters for one cent of the proceeds of the property of said estate. Nor has he to the knowledge of affiant ever accounted in any way for said property.

Affiant further states that in the year [1827] he employed Col Zacharah Sims to assist affiant to get his property or compensation for it from Clark and procured him to come on for that purpose to Jackson's [Troly?] where he and affiant were about to make an effort for that purpose when a complaint was made against Sims and he was ordered to be driven by the Light Horse out of the Cherokee Nation.

Affiant recollects that John Benge then living as affiant thinks on Battle Creek was Capt of the Light Horse and had Sims arrested. Affiant don't recollect how he obtained his release but remembers that he left the Nation. Affiant then became discouraged and did not then further [implicate] his claim but the next fall immigrated to Arkansas where he remained until recently. He has returned to again assert his rights.

Affiant has now two sisters surviving namely Susannah the wife of George Chisholm and Alcy the wife of Giles McNulty. Affiant's other sister Peggy has departed this life leaving four children surviving [her hissy at laws] by her husband William Wilson who is also dead. The eldest named Jane Wilson, the 2d Elzrah Wilson, the third George Wilson and the fourth Bird Wilson.
[Signed] Bird Doublehead Sworn to oath inscribed before me this 21st June 1838 David [Sauam-ate.: C]

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