Individual Notes

Note for:   Ezekiel Fields,   16 NOV 1859 - 1933         Index

Individual Note:
     Educated in the Cherokee National Schools

Individual Notes

Note for:   Timothy Richard Fields,   1860 - 1949         Index

Individual Note:
     [Kelly History.FTW]

Richard Timothy Fields, a farmer according to the 1920 Federal Census in Delaware County, Oklahoma gave his name as Timothy Fields and his age as 58. That census shows he was born in Oklahoma.

Individual Notes

Note for:   George Fields,   ABT 1800 -          Index

Event:   
     Type:   1835 Census Roll
     Place:   Hiwassee River, TN


Individual Notes

Note for:   Richard Fields,   29 OCT 1745 -          Index

Event:   
     Type:   Blood
     Place:   English

Event:   
     Type:   Ethnicity
     Place:   English


Individual Notes

Note for:   John Stuart,   ABT 1730 - 21 FEB 1779         Index

Alias:   /Bushyhead/

Emigration:   
     Date:   1733
     Place:   To America

Event:   
     Type:   Blood
     Place:   Non-Cherokee

Individual Note:
     John Stuart was captain of a British Company. He was born in Scotland in the early part of the 18th century. A young Scot Nobleman with the British army, he came to the Colonies as an Indian Agent. Captain John Stuart was stationed at Fort London. He spoke the Cherokee language fluently and was known by the Cherokees as Oonotota or "Bushyhead", on account of his great shock of curly red hair. The fort was besieged and captured by Chief Ognostota on August 7, 1760. Nearly all of the garrison was killed but Captain Stuart was rescued and taken to Virginia by Chief Attacullaculla. Stuart was later appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs, South of the Ohio River. Captain Stuart married Susannah Emory, the quarter blood granddaughter of the Scotch trader Ludovic Grant. Their only child was known as Oonotota or "Bushyhead" also and this name has clung to his descendants. He died in Pensacola, Florida, 2-21-1779.

Old Frontiers, by John P Brown, 1938, Southern Publishers, Kingsport, T
A young Scot nobleman with the British army, came to the Colonies as an Indian Agent.

According to Indian custom of giving names based on physical characteristics, the young
officer was called "Bushyhead" in recognition of his very large crop of curly red hair.

John was stationed at Ft Loudon as the Captain of a British company in 1757. The fort was
besieged and captured by the war chief O-go-no-sto-ta on August 7, 1760. Nearly all the
garrison was killed, but Captain Stuart was rescued and taken to Virginia by the civil chief,
Atacullaculla. Stuart was later appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs, South of the
Ohio River and married Susannah Emory.
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Starr states that John Stuart died in Pensacola, FL; but, James Mooney states...
"he fled to Florida and soon after sailed for England."
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Old Frontiers, by John P Brown, 1938, Southern Publishers, Kingsport, T
"...Stuart called a great congress of all southern Indians at Mobile during March and
April, 1764... [Hewatt, 2, 283-288]
"Stuart was at the time in his sixty-fourth year, and spry, though troubled continuously
with gout.
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Old Frontiers, by John P Brown, pg 174
"Pensacola, 26th March, 1779
"My Lord Germaine;\\
"We think it our duty to acquaint your Lordship that on
Sunday the 21st instant, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
Col Stuart, His Majesty's sole agent for and
Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern
District of North America, departed this life after
a long and painful illness, which he bore with
resignation for several months. We are with
great respect,
Your Lordship's most humble
and most obedient Servants,
Alexander Cameron
Charles Stuart

[From James Hicks]

Individual Notes

Note for:   Oonotota Bushyhead,   ABT 1767 -          Index

Individual Note:
     Letter of April 15, 1829 about new church members at Candy's Creek Mission:
Bushyhead, 45-50 years old, a full blood, speaks little English.
He was once very sinful and full of vice.

Individual Notes

Note for:   John Martin,   ABT 1752 - 5 APR 1823         Index

Event:   
     Type:   Blood
     Place:   Non-Cherokee

Individual Note:
     Brigadier General Joseph Martin, who had the rare distinction of simultaneously bearing commissions to this rank in the militia service of North Carolina and of Virginia:
North Carolina - December 15, 1787
Virginia - December 11, 1793
He married Susannah (Emory), Stuart-Bushyhead, Fields. He was her third husband.

Individual Notes

Note for:   William Emory,   1720 - BEF 1842         Index

Event:   
     Type:   Blood
     Place:   English


Individual Notes

Note for:   Mary Grant,   ABT 1727 - ABT 1765         Index

Event:   
     Type:   Clan
     Place:   Long-Haired Clan (Mary Grant)


Individual Notes

Note for:   Ludovic Grant,   1696 - 1755         Index

Christening:   
     Date:   12 APR 1702
     Place:   Irvine, Ayr, Scotland

Occupation:   
     Place:   Fur Trader

Emigration:   
     Date:   7 MAY 1716
     Place:   From Scotland to the "New World"

Event:   
     Type:   Blood
     Place:   Scots

Event:   
     Type:   Emigration 2
     Date:   ABT 1726
     Place:   To Cherokee Nation as Indian Trader

Individual Note:
     Ludovic Grant, a Scotch trader from Tellico, lived there since 172-, married a Cherokee woman. He married a full blood Cherokee woman of the Long Hair clan. He was among the Cherokees at the time Christian Priber and James Adair was in the Nation. Grant's half Cherokee daughter married William Emory, an Englishman.

Banished from West Highland, Scotland for his part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, captured at Preston and transported from Liverpool to South Carolina on the "Susannah". Master of the ship was Thomas Bromhall, May 7, 1716
(Directory of Scots Banished to the America Plantations 1650 to 1775, page 66/Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD)

The Jacobite's had over the course of a century, had staged numerous rebellions in Britain, trying to restore the Stuart family to power. Ludovic was the 2nd Baronet of Dalvey.

Ludovic became a Indian trader with the Adair family. Ludovic Grant, being of good family and well educated, became the agent and correspondent of the Governors of South Carolina. His letters, informing the governors of the happenings and situations within the Cherokee Nation, are published in the Chronicles of that state. He was one of the few traders who were honest and respected, and he deplored the bad others in his letters to South Carolina.

History of the Cherokee Nation by Emmet Starr
On page 466, Starr states that Ludovic Grant married a woman of the Long Hair Clan; however, on page 561 and 563, it states he married a member of the Wolf Clan.

Ludovic Grant was the Clan Chief of the Grant holdings in Scotland, and they lost the war in the Jacobite Rebellion. They were captured by the British at Preston and banished to the New World. Ludovic arrived on the Susannah and moved in with the Cherokees, his cousins all went to Boston and the Caribbean area.

Sir Alexander Cuming, in his brief Journal, which appeared in the Historical Register of London for 1731, described his adventures in the Cherokee Nation in 1730 when, with the aid of Ludovic Grant, he convinced seven young Cherokees (including future chief, Attakullakulla, the "Little Carpenter") to visit England and King George II.

In a statement recorded in page 301 of the Charlestown, South Carolina Probate Court in the book of "1754 to 1758," in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, Ludovic says, "It is about thirty years since I went into the Cherokee Country, where I have resided ever since." "I speak their language."


The Cherokees by Grace Steele Woodward
page 61

Sir Alexander's wild speech did not set well with traders like Ludovic Grant, the scion of a proud Scottish family, nor with other traders who heard Sir Alexander that night.
"This strange speech, which I and the other Traders heard him make did not give some of them... a very favorable impression of him," was Grant's terse comment.