Cherokee Indians from Georgia -S-
Sa-lah. SEE Sutteer.
Satterfield, John, aged 56, white (married to a native before the treaty). Ref: 1851 Siler Rolls. Lumpkin County, Georgia.
Saunders. SEE Celia Parris.
Sawnee, Fannie of Forsyth County, Georgia was known to be a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. She married John Poe. She had a daughter, Fannie Watley, born 1812 in Walton County, died in 1868, married a Spence.
"My name is Phoebe M. Freeman. I live at 707 Marietta Street, Altnata, Georgia. I was born in 1843 in Cherokee County, Georgia. I claim Cherokee Indian blood through my mother and her mother and father. My mother died in 1868 and was 56 years old when she died. My grandmother's name was Fannie Watley before marriage. She married a Spence. I think she was raised in Troup County. My great grandmother's name was Fannie Sawnee. She was a full blooded Cherokee Indian. She married John Poe....In 1851 I was living in Cherokee County, Georgia. In 1882, I was living in the same place....My mother always taught me that I had Cherokee blood....."/s/Phoebe M. Freeman, Atlanta, Georgia, July 8, 1908, U. S. Court of Claims 1906-1908.
Scattered. A letter published in the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate, dated Wednesday, March 4, 1829. " COOSA RIVER, IN TURKEY TOWN. C.N. 9th February, 1829. TO THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE. The undersigned in behalf of a long meeting, composed of the Citizens of Turkey Town, take the liberty of addressing you through the public journal of our Nation, on the subject of emigration to the west, to which the United States have their attention. The view we take of this measure, and the sentiments will take occasion to express, will be simple and plain, founded on truth as handed down to us by our ancestors. Limited in knowledge and possessing but a small share of experience, our apology in this attempt is in the interest we feel in everything that concerns the well being of our Nation. Our ancestors settled in this place at a period not now in our recollection. Here was sacred ground, and on this spot the Council-fire blazed with lustre, and here were the dwellings and seats of Kings and our beloved Chief!-- We speak of days when we lived in the hunter's state, and when our feet were swift in the track of game. General Washington, after having smoked the pipe of peace with our Chiefs, sent us word to discontiued the pusuit of vagrant habits and adopt those more susbstantial and become cultivators of the soil. His successors pursued, in regard to us, the same policy, and sent to us the same Talk from time to time -- that as game was precarious and liable to destruction, the bosom of the earth afforded means of subsistence, both infinite and inexhaustible. But time was not allowed us to experience the blessing of putting this recommendation to practice by interested wicked white men, who lived near to us, and who esteemed us a nuisance, because the Great Spirit had placed our habitations in a desirable County, and because they themselves had crossed the Big Water (the Ocean) and had become our neighbors. The bitter cup of adversity was filled to us on every side, by our ememies. Our safety was often endangered by intrigue and misreprensation of our character to the General Government; and it was not mental or natural disability that opposed itself to our advancement in civilization, but obstacles place in our way to reach it. The Indians were represented as incapable of learning the arts of cilivized life, and at the same time treated in in most uncivil manner. They were savagely revegenful, because they had the spirit to resent the murder of their friends & relations. They were rogues and thieves, because, not knowing the mother of legal processes to to obtain justice, and if they did, their oath decreed to non-availing, they retaliated in the same way. They were drunkards, because intoxicating liquors were introduced among them. They were disinclined to the study of books, because of some few superficially educated under bad instruction had betrayed their countrymen and had set bad examples. They were stubborn, because they loved the land that had been endeared to them as an inheritance of their fathers. This flood of inconsistency raged with violence over the heads of our Chiefs & swept with its waves, from under their feet, the earth, for which they had struggled for ages past. In this way our territory diminished, and our inheritance was circumbscribed to its present bounds. Our Chief displaced wonderful forbearance in this trials, and maintained the faith of treaties, with the United States, whose chief magistrate also exercised the spirit of paternal affection, and adhered to his engagements as pledged to us by treaties. With caution have we passed the strong shoals of opposition, and its mingled cruelties to the light of civiliztion. The sun has arise in our moral horizon is fast advancing to its meridan. We hail it with joy! Although a part of our nation have detached themselves from us, to follow the chase, in the western wilds, and we are invited to retrograte to savageism, with strong talks and inducements as bribes our appetite for our present enjoyments if is too strong to relinquish them because we have tasted their sweets and are contented. We have noticed the ancient ground of complaint founded on the ignorance of our ancestors and their fondness of the chase, and for the purposes of agriculture as having in possession too much land for their numbers. What is the language of objection at this time? The case is reversed, and we are now assaulted with menaces of expulsuion because we have unexpectedly become civilized and because we have formed and organized a constitutional government. It is too much for us now to be honest and virtuous and industrious because then are we capable of aspiring to the calls of Christians and Politicians which renders our attachment to the soil more strong and therefore more difficult to defend us of the possession. Disappointment inflicts on the mind of the avaricious whiteman; the mortification of delay, or the probability of the intended victim's excape from the snares laid for its destruction. It remains for us in this situation of the question, to act as free agents in choosing for ourselves to walk in the straight forward path of the impartial recommendations of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, as most congenial to our feelings and knowledge of the means calcaluated to promote our happiness. We hereby individually set our faces to the rising sun and turn our backs to its setting. As our ancestors revered the sepulchral monuments of the noble dead, we cherish the sacred of their repose as they lie under hillocks of clay, that cover them from our sight. If the country, to which we are directed to go is desirable and well watered, why is it so long a wilderness and a wasteland and uninhabited by respectable white people whose enterprise ere this, would have attended them to monopolize it from the poor and unfortunate of their fellow citizens as they have hitherto done? From correct information we have formed a bad opinion of the western country beyond the Mississippi. But if report was favorable to the fertility of the soil, if the running streams were as transparent as crystal, and silver fish abounded in their element in profusion we should still adhere to the purposes of spending the remnant of our lives on the soil that gave us birth and rendered deer from the nourishment we receive from its bosom. We take the liberty of acknowledging our obligations to Major Ridge for his attendance at our meeting and for an eloquent speech suitable for the occasion which he delivered at our request. MONEY HUNTER, his x mark, TAH-KA-HA-KEE, his x mark, SCATTERED, his x mark, KUNG-WAS-SOO-LAS-KEE, his x mark, KILLER, his mark, RICHD. RATLIFF, Jr. his x mark, CRYING SNAKE, his x mark, RESURRECTION, his x mark, FOLLOWER, his x mark.
See-Quah-yah, THE CHEROKEE PHILOSOPHER. "The following account of See-quah-yah,[See-quo-yah] the celebrated inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, is from one of a series of lectures on American literature delivered last winter at the City of Washington, by Samuel L. Knapp, Esq. In the winter of 1828, a delegation of the Cherokees visited the City of Washington in order to make a treaty with the United States, and among them was See-quah-yah, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. His English name was George Guess; he was a half-blood, but had never, from his own account, spoken a single word of English up to the time of his invention nor since. Prompted by my own curiosity, and urged by several literary friends, I applied to See-quah-yah, through the medium of two interpreters-one a half-blood, Capt. Rogers, and the other a full-blood, whose assumed English name was John Maw, to relate to me as minutely as possible the mental operations and all the facts in his discovery. He cheerfully complied with my request, and gave very deliberate and satisfactory answers to every question, and was at the same time careful to know from the interpreter if I distinctly understood his answers. No stoic could have been more grave in his demeanor than was See-quah-yah, he pondered, according to the Indian custom, for a considerable time after each question was put, before he made his reply, and often took a whiff of his calumet while reflecting on an answer. The details of the examination are too long for the closing paragraph of this lecture; but the substance of it was this- that he, See-quah-yah, was now about sixty-five years old, but could not precisely say-that in early life he was gay, talkative, and although he never attempted to speak in council but once, yet was often from the strength of his memory, his easy colloquial powers and ready command of his vernacular, a story-teller of the convivial party. His reputation for talents of every kind gave him some distinction when he was quite young, so long ago as St. Clair's defeat. In this campaign, or some one that soon followed it, a letter was found on the person of a prisoner which was wrongly read by him to the Indians. In some deliberation on this subject the question arose among them whether the mysterious power of "the talking leaf" was the gift of the Great Spirit to the white man, or a discovery of the white man himself? Most of his companions were of the former opinion, while he as strenuously maintained the latter. This frequently became a subject of contemplation with him afterwards, as well as many things which he knew or had heard, that the white man could do; but he never sat down seriously to reflect on the subject, until a swelling on his knee confined him to his cabin, and which, at length, made him a cripple for life, by shortening the diseased leg. Deprived of the excitements of war and the pleasures of the chase, in the long nights of his confinement his mind was again directed to the mystery of the power of speaking by letters, the very name of which, of course, was not to be found in his language. From the cries of wild beasts, from the talents of the mocking-bird, from the voices of his children and his companions, he knew that feelings and passions were conveyed by different sounds from one intelligent being to another. The thought struck him to try to ascertain all the sounds in the Cherokee language. His own ear was not remarkably discriminating, and he called to his aid the more acute ears of his wife and children. He found great assistance from them. When he thought that he had distinguished all the different sounds in their language, he attempted to use pictorial signs, images of birds and beasts, to convey these sounds to others or to mark them in his own mind. He soon dropped this method, as difficult or impossible, and tried arbitrary signs, without any regard to appearances except such as might assist him in recollecting them, and distinguishing them from each other. At first these signs were very numerous; and when he got so far as to think his invention was nearly accomplished he had about two hundred characters in his alphabet. By the aid of his daughter, who seemed to enter into the genius of his labors, he reduced them at last, to eighty-six, the number he now uses. He then set to work to make these characters more comely to the eye, and succeeded-as yet he had not the knowledge of the pen as an instrument; but made his characters on a piece of bark with a knife or nail.- At this time he sent to the Indian agent, or some trader in the nation, for paper and pen. His ink was easily made from some of the bark of the forest trees, whose coloring properties he had previously known-and after seeing the construction of the pen, he soon learned to make one, but at first he made it without a slit; this inconvenience was, however, quickly removed by his sagacity. His next difficulty was to make his invention known to his countrymen; for by this time he had become so abstracted from his tribe and their usual pursuits that he was viewed with an eye of suspicion. His former companions passed his wigwam without entering it, and mentioned his name as one who was practicing improper spells, for notoriety or mischievous purposes, and he seems to think that he should have been hardly dealt with, if his docile and unambitious disposition had not been so generally acknowledged by his tribe-at length he summoned some of the most distinguished of his nation in order to make his communication to them-and after, giving them the best explanation of his discovery that he could, stripping it of all supernatural influence, he proceeded to demonstrate to them in good earnest, that he had made a discovery. His daughter, who was now his only pupil; was ordered to go out of hearing, while he requested his friends to make a word or statement which he put down, and then she was called in and read it to them; then the father retired, and the daughter wrote, the Indians were wonderstruck [sic]; but not entirely satisfied. See-quah-yah then proposed that the tribe should select several youths from among their brightest young men; that he might communicate the mystery to them. This was at length agreed to, although there was some lurking suspicion of necromancy in the whole business. John Maw (his Indian name I have forgotten,) a full blood, with several others, were selected for this purpose. The tribe watched the youths for several months with anxiety, and when they offered themselves for examination, the feelings of all were wrought up to the highest pitch. The youths were separated from their master and from each other, and watched with great care. The uninitiated directed what master and pupil should write to each other, and these tests were viewed in such a manner as not only to destroy their infidelity, but most firmly to fix their faith. The writers on this ordered a great feast and made See-quah-yah conspicuous at it. How nearly is man alike in every age?- Pythagoras did the same on the discovery of an important principle in geometry. See-quah-yah became at once schoolmaster, professor, philosopher and as chief. His countrymen were proud of his talents, and held him in reverence as one favored by the Great Spirit. The inventions of early times are shrouded in mystery. See-quah-yah disdained all quackery. He did not stop here, but carried his discoveries to numbers. He of course knew nothing of the Arabic digits, nor of the power of Roman letters in the science. the Cherokees had mental numerals to one hundred, and had words for all numbers up to that, but they had no signs or characters to assist them in enumerating, adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing. He reflected upon them until he had created their elementary principle in his mind, but he was at first obliged to make words to express his meaning, and then signs to explain it. By this process he soon had a clear conception of numbers up to a million.- His great difficulty was at the threshold, to fix the powers of his signs according to their places. When this was overcome, his next step was in order to put down the fraction of the decimal and give the whole number to his next place-but when I knew him he had overcome all these difficulties, and was quite a ready arithmetician in the fundamental rules. This was the result of my interview, and I can safely say that I have seldom met a man of more shrewdness than See-quah-yah. He adhered to all the customs of his country, and when his associate chiefs on the mission assumed our costume, he was dressed in all respects like an Indian. See-quah-yah is a man of diversified talents; he passes from metaphysical and philosophical investigations to mechanical occupations with the greatest ease. The only practical mechanics he was acquainted with were a few bungling blacksmith [sic], who could make a rough tomahawk, or tinker the lock of a rifle; yet he became a white and silversmith without any instruction, and made spears and silver spoons with neatness and skill, to the great admiration of people of the Cherokee Nation. See-quah-yah has also a great taste for painting. He mixes his colors with skill, taking all the arts and science of his tribe upon the subject, he added to it many chemical experiments of his own, and some of them were very successful, and would be wowrth being known to our painters.- For his drawings he had no model but what nature furnished, and he often copied them with astonishing faithfulness. His resemblances of the human form, it is true, are coarse, but often spirited and correct, and he gave action and sometimes grace to his representations of animals. He had never seen a camel hair pencil when he made use of the hair of wild animals for his brushes: Some of his productions discover a considerable practical knowledge of perspective: but he could not have formed rules for this. The painters in the early ages were many years coming to a knowledge of this part of their art; and even now they are more successful in the art that perfect in the rules of it. The manners of the American Cadmus are the most easy, and his habits those of the most assiduous scholar,& his disposition more lively than of any Indian I ever saw. He understood and felt the advantages the white man had long enjoyed, of leaving the accumulations of every branch of knowledge, from generation to generation, by means of written language, while the red man could only commit his thoughts to uncertain tradition. He reasoned correctly when he urged this to his friends as the cause why the red man had made so few advances in knowledge in comparison with us, and to remedy this was one of his great aims, and one which he has accomplished beyond that of any other man living or perhaps any other who ever existed in a rude state of nature. It perhaps may not be known to all, that the government of the United States had a font of types cut for his alphabet, and that a newspaper printed partly in Cherokee language, and partly in English, has been established at New Echota, and is characterized by decency and good sense, and thus many of the Cherokees are able to read both languages. After putting these remarks to paper, I had the pleasure of seeing the head Chief of the Cherokees, who confirmed the statements of See-quah-yah, and added that he was an Indian of the strictest veracity and sobriety. The western wilderness is not only to blossom like the rose, but there, man has started up and proved that he has not degenerated since the primitive days of Cecrops, and the romantic ages of wonderful effort and god-like renown."Ref: CHEROKEE PHOENIX AND INDIANS' ADVOCATE, published on July 29, 1829.
Scudder, Elizabeth , aged 38, widow, mixed. Josephine Scudder, daughter, aged 17, mixed. Jacob Scudder, son, aged 15, mixed. Lewis Scudder, son, aged 13, mixed. William Henry Scudder, son, aged 11, mixed.
See-go, Sallie. SEE John Hubbard.
Shaw, D. C.,, age 47. Mary Shaw, wife, age 46. (Lives in Spring Fever, Georgia) REJECTED. "Mary Shaw first married James Wicked, a native and had by him three sons." Family No. 8 Murray County, Georgia. James Wicked died and she married D C Shaw, a white man before the treaty. She is white. Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.
Shaw, Francis had a letter remaining at the post office at New Echota on January 1, 1830. Ref: Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate dated Wednesday, January 6, 1830.
Shoe Boots. NOTICE. TO all whom it may concern, that, the undersigned having been appointed Administrators on the estate of Shoe Boots deceased, we hereby notify all persons indebted to the estate to come forward and make payment, and all persons having claims against the estate to present them for payment within twelve months, at the expiration of which time they will be debarred payment, on the claim, if any there be, as the law directs. THOS. WOODARD, JOHN RIDGE. Administrators. Cherokee Editor and Indians' Advocate, dated October 28, 1829.
Sinyard, Thompson, aged 46, white. Jane Sinyard, daughter, aged 20, mixed. Andrew Sinyard, aged 18, mixed. Ref: 1851 Siler Rolls. Lumpkin County, Georgia
Sleeping Rabbit. listed as living in Chattooga Village, a village of Cherokee Indians 1820-1830. He served on the Council in 1829. Ref: Chattooga County, The Story of a County and Its People by Robert S. Baker.The Speaker of the house, not having arrived, Sleeping Rabbit was called to the chair, and an election was held for a new Clerk of the Council, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the discission of A. McCoy. Three candidates being nominated, to wit: John Ridge, Stephen Foreman, and Elijah Hicks, the first, on counting the votes, was duly elected.
Smallwood, signed his name to a Treaty dated December 11 December, 1821 concerning the boundary "run by Gen. Wm. Mc'Intosh and Samuel Hawkins, commissioners duly authorized by their nation, and Thomas Pettit, and John Beamer, authorized commissioners of the Cherokee nation, is forever hereafter acknowledged by both nations to be permanent." Published in the Cherokee Phoenix dated November 11, 1829.
Smith, Archilla, listed as living in Chatooga Village, a village of Cherokee Indians 1820-1830. Ref: Chattooga County, The Story of a County and Its People by Robert S. Baker.
Smith, James F.. SEE China Johnson.
Smith, Smoke. Listed as residing in Cherokee Village, Island Town, north of present-day Trion, in 1820-1830. Ref: Chattooga County, The Story of a County and Its People by Robert S. Baker.
Smith, Sarah, age 29. John Smith, son, age 7. ALLOWED. "The names of Sarah Smith and her son John were handed to me by her father William Henson, he states that they live in Monroe County, Tennesee and are Cherokees, this statement is corroborated by other persons that I consider reliable." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.
Smith, William,, age 30. John Smith, age 22. REJECTED. "William and John Smith live in Jackson County, Alabama, they have the reputation where they live as being Cherokees. I learned that the have been in the habit of denying their Indian blood, they were raised in Marshall County, Alabama. I could obtain no accurate account of their history. They tell me don’t know whether they are Cherokee. John has the appearance of a half Indian." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.
Sneed, Mary Ann Sneed , aged 22, wife, mixed. ( A L Sneed is the head of this family). John H Sneed , son, aged 4, mixed. Sarah E. Sneed, daughter, aged 2, mixed. Ref: 1851 Siler Rolls. Union County, Georgia.
Sourjohn, age 36. (daughter of William Carter, lives in Lumpkin County, Georgia). Martha Sourjohn, daughter, age 18. Elizabeth Sourjohn, daughter, age 16. Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.
Soweyoukee, Tom. listed as living in Chatooga Village, a village of Cherokee Indians 1820-1830. Ref: Chattooga County, The Story of a County and Its People by Robert S. Baker.
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Sparks, Sarah A. SEE Samuel M. Howell.
Starns, Slighter, born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina. He went to the Cherokee Nation about 1844 West of the Mississippi River.
"My name is Jasper R. Starns. I was born in Hall County, Georgia, 1838; I claim my Indian blood through my father...my father's name was John Buffington Starns....I was six years old when my father died...I think my father lived with the Indians as a member of the tribe....in 1851 my father was dead,,,at that time I lived in Lumpkin County, Georgia...."/s/Jasper R. "X" Starns, Calhoun, Georgia, July 9, 1908. U. S. Court of Claims, #1290, Misc. Test.
Still, George had a letter remaining at the post office at New Echota on January 1, 1830. Ref: Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate dated Wednesday, January 6, 1830.
Still, John. (An orphan, lives in Hamilton County, Tennessee). Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.
Still, Margaret. (Lives in Hamilton County, Tennessee). Franklin Still, son, Houston Still, son, Joseph Still, son. REJECTED but this statement was given. "These families of John Fields, Sarah Fields, Margaret Still, Mary Evans with the orphan boy John Still could produce no facts to show their Indian blood. I cam to the conclusion that they were mixed with some other races afterwards, Dr. J. L. Yarnell informed me that they are Cherokees. He gives no account of the history of the family except Sarah Fields is the widow of George Fields and that Mary Evans was the wife of George Still. Dr. Yarnell is highly recommended." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.
Stillwell, Tilmon, age 60. usan Stillwell, age 43, wife (She is the daughter of William Carter, lives in Gilmire County, Georgia). Telitha Stillwell 16, daughter; Fanny Stillwell, 15, daughter; Harrison Stillwell, 10, son. Hiram Stillwell, 6, son; Sarah Stillwell, daughter, age 2.Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.
Stratton, Eliza, age 16. (Daughter of Woody Russell). Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.
Stuart, John, Capt., Scotchman, who died in Pensacola, Florida on 21 February 1779, intermarried with a Cherokee. He was a great-grandfather of Chief Dennis W. Bushyhead.
Sutteer, George was born 1865 in the Sequoyal District, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. His father was born in Georgia, in 1811. "My mother was born 1860...in 1851 my parents and grandparents lived in the Flint District...I was enrolled in the Dawes Commission under the name of George Sutteer, 25768.....My father and mother have always lived with the Cherokee tribe...." /s/George "X" Sutteer, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, September 18, 1908, Application Misc. Test#2927 in the U. S. Court of Claims 1906-1910.
"My name is George Sutteer; my post-office is Marble City, Oklahoma; I am about forty-four years old; I claim my Cherokee blood through both my father and my mother; my father's name was Sutte-yah; in 1851 he was living in Flint District. My mother's name was Oo-gah-we-yah; my mother had a sister named Sa-lah; she is sometimes called Sarah Bull and she has a son named John Noisywater; they both live near Stillwell; Sakih Humanstriker is a daughter of my aunt; she is living close to Stillwell." /s/George "X" Sutteer, Marble City, Oklahoma, March 18, 1909. Application Misc. Test#3977 in the U. S. Court o f Claims 1906-1910.
Issue:
- Maud Sutteer, born 1897
Sutte-yah . SEE Sutteer.
Sway Back. "The execution of Sway Back a cherokee [sic] at Crawfish Court House for the murder of murphy [sic] under the sentence of Judge Brown, is an additional event of the strict prosecution to some of the Cherokee laws. The circumstances of this murder appears to have had its origin in a drinking frolick [sic], and committed during a state of extreme intoxication. The parties prior to this melanchaly [sic] catastrophy [sic] had been known to have maintained the common habits of friendship. Hence no cause of malevolence is assigned to give the least countenance for the commission of this palpable homicide. The weapon which he employed, was a large oak stick cut for the purpose of wife wood, on which had been left some pointed knots from trimming its boughs, with this instrument of considerable weight, the criminal advanced unobserved behind Murphy's back, who was seated near a fire, deliberately and forceably [sic] made a blow on the juncture of the neck and head, which nearly crushed to pieces the back part of the cranium, with this destructive blow death followed as an inevitable consequence. There were other Cherokees indulging themselves in a similar intemperance at the same time and place, on discovering the murder, they secured the criminal with fetters around the legs and hands, and kept him in this confinement until the marshal took him in possession. But during this affecting occasion when the marshal was about to proceed with him towards the place of trial, he begged permission of the officer to speak the last words to his child of two or three years old, though delivered hastily, yet reflects much credit on the affection of a Cherokee. Permission being given, embraced his child, and observed, I am speaking the last words--I am on my way to my place of trial and death-if I die it will be at court and not before-but if I live, it will be after court when life shall have been continued and to me newly exist again--Farewell. How far his secret monitor of wright [sic] and wrong operated a punishment in consequence of his crime, may be learnt from the remarkable fact, that from the time he committed the offence until his trial, which was nearly two weeks, was not known to have shewn [sic] the least uneasiness of his crime or danger, a stranger to inquietude and unconcerned in regard to his approaching fate. During his trial on being asked if he had any objections to any of his jurors, he replied with calmness and apparently without solicitude, that there were none to whom he objected, for said he, I know nothing of my act.--After a short trial and painful as it is to relate, it is nevertheless true, that he was condemned to die, by the testimony of his own wife preponderating to the truth of the crime. But during the solemn and may be added to him an awful investigation, continued without confuse, but inspired by the poetical line, "the sons of Alknomock will never complain." We are informed that the criminal was to be executed by hanging." Ref: CHEROKEE PHOENIX, published on Thursday April 24, 1828 .