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 Bef 1696 - Bef 1762 (~ 66 years)
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| Name |
Ludovic Grant |
| Suffix |
(2nd Baronet of Dalvey) |
| Birth |
Bef 1696 |
(Pluscardine) Scotland  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
 Immigration |
7 May 1716 [2] |
- Liverpool to South Carolina
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| Occupation |
Indian Trader, Soldier [1, 3] |
- Ludovic Grant was an Indian trader and agent of South Carolina Governor James Glen. Grant’s reports from the Cherokee Nation were held in high regard.
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| Residence |
Liverpool, England [2] |
| Military |
Jacobite Soldier [2] |
- Ludovic Grant. Jacobite soldier captured after the "Siege of Preston" or "Battle of Preston (1715)", Lancashire.
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| Burial |
1757-1761 |
Charleston, South Carolina, a British Colony [4] |
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| Death |
Bef 1762 |
Charleston, South Carolina, a British Colony [2] |
| Person ID |
I48788 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
24 Jun 2017 |
| Father |
John Grant, The Immigrant, b. ~1679, Pluscarden, Elgin, Scotland, IV30 8TZ d. 1755, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina (Age ~ 75 years) |
| Mother |
Katherine LNU, b. (Scotland) |
| Marriage |
Y [2] |
| Family ID |
F18049 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Eughioote, a Cherokee woman, b. ~1706, (Monroe County, Tennessee) d. (Monroe County, Tennessee) |
| Marriage |
(Monroe County, Tennessee) [1] |
- CNE (Cherokee Nation East)
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| Children |
| | 1. Susannah Catherine Grant, b. ~ 1727, Great Tellico, Monroe County, Tennessee d. Bef 1770 (Age ~ 42 years) |
| | 2. Mary Susannah Grant, b. 1729, Monroe County, Tennessee d. Bef 1770, Goose Creek, Berkeley County, South Carolina. a British (Age 40 years) |
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| Family ID |
F18020 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
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Background to the connection between Ludovick Grant and the Cherokees
A few years ago Jerry Maddox, an independent researcher in Georgia USA, approached the Clan Grant Society of the UK to ask about the background of Ludovick Grant, well known in pre-Revolutionary Carolina as a trader with the Cherokees. At that time there was much misinfomation on the internet - particularly promulgated on and behalf of Donald Robinson, the self-styled "Oukah".
While we had no information readily to hand, we were able to direct Jerry first of all to the English National Archives at Kew where he was able to secure a copy of the record of the court decision sparing his life and sentencing him to transportation to the Americas. This record showed that Ludovick had been born in the parish of Fyvie (Aberdeenshire). We were then able to direct him to the Local Studies section of the Aberdeenshire Library Service where further details could be elicited coutesy of the generous assistance of staff there..
Subsequent to this Jerry produced a book "The Legacy of Ludovick Grant" published by Authorhouse in 2007
Unfortunately the early history of the Clan Grant is incorrect and Jerry half-misidentified Ludovick`s early years details. But nevertheless by reproducing much of the surviving correspondence - especially between Ludovick and the Governor of Carolina, we get a good insight not only into his character but also of the politics of the day.
Initial efforts to make contact with the Cherokees did not yield results, but Jerry was kind enough to persist in offering suggestions and the result of following these up was the opportunity for Lord Strathspey to meet with a senior representative of the Cherokee Nation on the occasion of his attendance at the Stone Mountain Games in Georgia in October 2008. This in turn led to the liaison which has resulted in the planned visit to Scotland by a Cherokee delegation, inter alia, to attend the 3rd International Grant Gathering in Strathpsey in August 2010.
Family Background of Ludovick Grant - the Scottish persepective
The Old Parish Register for Fyvie recognises a Ludovick Grant born in 1688, the natural (ie illegitimate) son of Alexander Grant, the miller of Creichie. A 1695 poll of the parish shows a Ludovick Grant, son of William Grant, the Laird of Creichie and Katharin Gordon, his wife. He had two brothers and a sister. We noted above that Ludovick Grant was a "gentleman" and for this reason we may dismiss as candidate the miller`s illegitimate son.
Deep Background of Ludovick`s family
(i) Old Grant histories (particularly the Birkenburn MS) tell us that the Grants of Creichie descend from the Grants of the 1st house of Ballindalloch. We may usefully start our story with Sir Duncan Grant, 12th in the roll of Chiefs of Clan Grant and the first to be designated "of Freuchie". He was born around 1410x15. His wife, who was probably born around 1420, was probably a daughter of the Leslie Earl of Rothes. The marriage was childless for some considerable time, but at length - sometime after 1450 - she bore him twins, the story of whose birth is worth recounting. As labour progressed a hand and then a lower arm appeared. At that point a red ribbon was tied around the baby`s wrist - but then the wrist withdrew back into the womb and it was the other baby who was born first. Sir Duncan determined that the one who was actually born first would be called John (after his own father, Sir John Roy Grant) and would become the heir apparent: to inherit by primogeniture (and hence he was designed "Younger of Freuchie". The second son (who had the ribbonned wrist) was to be called Patrick. His father did well by him - providing him with the very considerable estate of Ballindalloch, but All the time Patrick felt as if he had been cheated of his birthright. In his youth, John Grant, younger of Freuchie, had an illegitimate son, whom he called Duncan after his father, by a lady`s maid in the household (whose name is now lost to us). This Duncan was to become the founder of the "Clan Donnachie" branch of the Grants whose initial territorial designation was "of Gartinbeg" (because this Duncan was installed in the farm of that name) and from whom stem the Baronets of Dalvey (the second house of Dalvey), including the current Representative of the Clan Donnachie Grants, Sir Patrick Grant of Dalvey, Bt.
Later John married Muriel, daughter of the laird of Macintosh and by her he had a son whom he called John, probably born around 1475. This John had red hair and was to develop a talent for poetry - for which reason he was later to become known as "John Grant the Bard Roy". There is considerable irony in the fact that John Grant, younger of Freuchie died in 1482, before his father. On Sir Duncan`s death in 1485, Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch assumed control of the estates as "Tutor" of his nephew. [This is a term of formal significance in Scots Law: Patrick had legal control of all the affairs and we know that John must have been under 14 years of age.] Patrick took up residence in Castle Freuchie (known after 1694 as Castle Grant) and increasingly took the view that he had every right to be Laird of Grant. This scared John`s maternal grandfather who took John away to Dunachton to complete his education. Some time later it was only with some difficulty and after something of a "stand-off" that Patrick gave up his pretensions and withdrew to Ballindalloch Castle, allowing John to take up his rightful position as Laird (probably just before 1500). Patrick added to his own estates by purchase and was still alive in 1532.
(ii) A completely false tale propounded by Donald Robinson aka "The Oukah" claims that Ludovick Grant was one of the Baronets of Dalvey. While this is demonstrably untrue, it is possible (but I think quite unlikely) that Ludovick DID descend from house of the FIRST Grants of Dalvey - who were cadets of Ballindalloch. We do not know the name of Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch`s wife, but he had several children. The eldest of these was called John (perhaps as an acknowledgement of his twin brother`s status as heir to the Chiefship), who was to inherit the Ballindalloch Estate. His second son he called Patrick and on him was settled the farm/estate of Dalvey - so this Patrick was the first of the "first Grants of Dalvey". He had obtained a charter for this estate from Patrick the Bishop of Moray before 1537. At this point we may curtail an exhaustive discussion of the lineage by saying that several subsequent generations inherited and managed the estate until Robert Grant, with the agreement of his son and heir, sold the estate in 1680 to a John Campbell who quickly (1682) sold it on to James Grant, then the Younger of Gartinbeg (whence, subsequently, the Baronets of Dalvey). When Robert sold Dalvey he purchased an estate called Dunlugas rather north of Turriff in Aberdeenshire. We have no information as to why he did this - but some element of it may have to do with the fact that a collateral branch (of the (1st) Dalvey family?) had already made the move to Creichie, on the same road between Aberdeen and Banff. The pedigree charts in Sir William Fraser`s "Chiefs of Grant" (1883) are extensive, but he naturally had to draw a line somewhere - and so we see little of "cadets of cadets of cadets" as this family was with respect to the chiefly line.
Background of Creichie
The history of the Barony of Creichie is as yet undetailed. There are several places called "Creichie" (variously "Crichie" and "Craichie" etc.). The name itself is Pictish in origin and means "boundary burn" (cf Gaelic "Creich" boundary and Pictish "-ie" burn): in this case it refers to a particular burn - the one just East of Easter Creichie Farm which runs through the Den of Creichie to the Ythan) - which served as part of the boundary of an estate, in this case greater Fyvie. [The name Fyvie is also interesting and has defied historians up to now. Perhaps it is a demonstration of temerity that I aver that the name means "the Whortleberry burn" (cf Gaelic "Fibh") and refers to the burn which serves the Loch by Fyvie Castle before finding its way into the Ythan. The name Ythan itself takes its name from "talking", so might be understood as the "babbling brook". This too is Pictish and NOT Gaelic.] My impression is that greater Fyvie was part of the huge area called "The Garioch" [1297 "Garvyach", probably meaning "the field (area) by the rough burn"; unfortunately many of the water courses in the core area of the Garioch (South of the Urie and West of Inverurie) have been renamed, so some research would be required to identify the burn from which the area takes its name, but I am tempted by the Rushmill burn.] which was confiscated by Malcolm III around 1058 from the Mormaer of Mar, perhaps because he had supported King MacBeth. All these lands (the Garioch) were, therefore, available to be parcelled out to his favourites or to people he thought would be useful there. The bulk of the land was retained as the "Lordship of the Garioch" - but parts could be alienated at any time. Because parishes were formed largely from pre-existing land holding units it would seem likely that Creichie was still part of the Fyvie estate at the time of Kind David I (d1153). The geography implies that one or two bits (particularly to the South East) were added to the parish of Fyvie at some stage (presumably before 1153). Just when Creichie became alienated from the rest of Fyvie is still not clear, but there are records showing it passing from hand to hand and even being divided. Latterly it appears to be the Urquharts of Meldrum who had the major influence. Indeed it seems that it was due to the profligacy of one of these that it became desirable to sell Creichie, probably sometime in the period 1650 - 1680, William Grant, son of William Grant of Conglass (see below). The latest information we have suggests that the Grants acquired Creichie in the 1640s. It is highly desirable that a record of this purchase be found, possibly in the Register of the Great Seal.
Immediate Family Background of Ludovick Grant
The courts records of the Process of Adherence taken out by his wife call Ludovick the "younger of Creichie" - ie implying that he was the eldest son (and this despite the fact that he was listed only 3rd of the three brothers in 1696). It is not surprising that there should be two Grants, probably born about the same time bearing the name Ludovick - for that was the name of the Clan Chief at that time. [He was the one who was so powerful and on such good terms with King William III and Queen Mary as to have had his lands made into a Regality (1694) giving him even more powers over everything that went on there than he had had before.] Despite the chief being firmly opposed to episcopalianism (discussed below) it would be no surprise to find loyal kinsmen calling their children Ludovick. His brothers were called William and James. William was the name of the father of the family and James the name both of Chief Ludovick`s father and of his second son. [Chief Ludovick`s heir was Alexander - but the mysterious disappearance of Alexander Grant, the miller of Creichie may have been due to a falling out, one result of which being that the name would have been in disfavour.]
In 1736 we find a court record in which Ludovick Grant is sued in absentia in a "Process of Adherence". This suit was successful - the court issued an instruction that Ludovick should behave like a proper husband to his wife. In those days it was rather infra dig. that a woman should seek a divorce, but if she had successful in a process of adherence and that court ruling had not been observed then no stigma would be attached to subsequent divorce proceedings. In the record of this action we learn that Ludovick married a Margaret Redman (variously Reidman) in 1710 and for five years lived with her as man and wife in her house in the Canongate, Edinburgh. This marriage was, however, "irregular" for the celebrant was John Barclay. He had been born in 1641 and graduated MA from St Andrews University in 1671. He was deprived of his living in Cockburnspath in 1689 for not reading the proclamation of the Estates and not praying for William and Mary. In 1706 he was accused of performing irregular marriages. He died in 1711 in Calton, Edinburgh. It may be that it was this irregularity which prompted so many witnesses at the process of adherence, to come forward to assert how they had behaved as any other married couple over the period 1710-1715.
But in 1715 he disappeared and, according to several witnesses was never heard of again. The marriage date of 1710 could be taken to imply that Ludovick was born c1688/9. We are very lucky that when she died in 1750, Margaret Reidman left a will. From that and other documents we discover that before she married Ludovick she had been married to George Bethune - a Writer ("Writer to the Signet", one class of lawyer) who had died. This gives some margin to the date of Ludovick`s birth - no later than 1689, but possibly several years earlier. The sole executor of her will was her daughter (so "executrix") Mary Bethune. Like her mother she is described as a "merchant". Not enough is known about her, but it is surely remarkable that the one (Cherokee) child of Ludovick that we know about for sure (one or two more daughters are variously alleged) was also called Mary (born before 1710 and hence aged 40+ at the time of her mother`s death).
As we have seen, Ludovick`s father was the Laird of Creichie; he was there in 1695 and the Jacobite Cess roll of 1715 shows him still there at that date. But Creichie was bought by the Haddo Estate in 1722 . Unfortunately the Estate Office no longer has any record of this acquisition, but it should be somewhere in the Register of the Great Seal (RMS: Registrum Magni Sigilli). We have established that William Grant had been bankrupt for much of his time in Creichie, but that he stayed there until his death around 1720. . It would be very helpful to know his wife`s family background and why William became bankrupt.
[We now regard as irrelevant a William Grant who died in 1732, leaving a will (written on February 28th 1732 and executed (ie he had died in the meantime) on March 10th the same year). At this time he was living at Ardfork, a farm just a few miles South of Old Meldrum. His wife at that time was an Isobell Taylor. In his will he makes gifts to three sisters and their husbands: Agnes Grant, married to James Thomson (in Old Meldrum?) Margaret Grant, married to Thomas Simpson in Old Meldrum, and Elspeth Grant married to Robert Benzies in Pitgavenie. There is no mention either of any children. This farm had a history also - of having been a source of alms. While it is quite likely that this William was a realtion of the Creichie family, he could not have been a member of it. There is (?yet another) William Grant in this area who had a brother, Thomas, who lived in Turriff, but we have no specific reason to suppose him still to be alive at this time. American sources claim that Ludovick had "cousins" who went to Boston and the Caribbean, so there is more research to be done here?.]
Ludovick also had a sister Anna. In 1700 she married, as his second wife, William Hay MA who was cited in 1707 on the "List of Ministers who have not complied with the present church government". He was cited for complicity in the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. So the religious adherence was a matter common to the family as a whole. [Anna`s marriage in 1700 places her birth in the period 1680x85 and this in turn makes the birth of her father William`s sometime before 1660, making him possibly 60+ at death.]
The Religious connection
We have seen above already the way in which religious adherence was a major factor. No only was this generally the case in Scotland, but specifically in the local area we may see how there were immediate influences: throughout the period in question (1685-1717) the minister at Fyvie was George Dalgarno - himself an Episcopalian - so perhaps this is how the seed was nurtured. Meanwhile James Seaton, Lord of Fyvie, had had his lands forfeit by 1689 for his Jacobite sympathies.
William Grant as Laird of Creichie
We should understand that Creichie was a substantial estate and William a substantial personage. In the late 1600s Scotland was in dire financial straits and so efforts had to be made to squeeze money out of the population. This was done by means of a Poll Tax - and for this purpose a "poll" (in effect a census) had to be taken. We are very lucky that one such poll was conducted late in 1695, published in 1696. The poll for the Parish of Fyvie has been reprinted by the Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society. From this we may gather both the extent of the Creichie estate and something of the Grant family.
First we should note that William Grant, the laird was one of those with principal responsibilities for conducting the census.
[Secondly we should note in passing that Alexander Grant and his son were nowhere to be seen.]
Thirdly we should note that all in all, the household, including farm workers and other tradesmen amounted to over 30 not including the children. And there were ten other farms on his estate.
In 1700 he was an Assiser (a Juror) along with a Walter Grant of Arndilly (inter alia) in the Banff Sheriff Court trying a case for the Chief of Grant.
Earlier Generations
Ludovick`s father was William Grant of Crichie. Before they obtained Creichie the family lived at Conglass (a farm on the road to Huntly just outside and now being absorbed by Inverurie) which it would seem that they obtained in 1624 from the Urquharts of Meldrum. The first Grant laird of Conglass would appear to be a John (John would have been the name of the Chief when this man was born). [William Urquhart of Craigston advises of this and that it is recorded in the Register of the Great Seal, but so far the entry has eluded us.]
William had a son Walter. In turn Walter had a son William. William`s father was William Grant of Conglass (by Inverurie) William`s father was Walter Grant of Conglass. There was a William Grant of Conglass, a church elder in Inverurie whose second wife (m. before 1633) Elizabeth Leslie of Balquhain was excommunicated in 1660 (she described as "as an elderly lady") for popery. This suggests that Elizabeth was born sometime before 1600, as does the age of her siblings (including Count Leslie). She was married before - as he must have been. We noted above that Ludovick`s father was born c1660 so we may cast previous generations roughly like this:
William`s father born c 1637
His father born c 1612
His father born c 1590.
The man born in 1615 is surely too young to have married a woman born before 1600 and far too young to have acquired Conglass in 1624. Moreover it would appear that his name should be Walter. Thus it would appear that it would have to have been his father who bought Conglass from the Urquharts of Meldrum in 1624, when aged about 34. It seems that he married Elizabeth in later life - ie she was not Walter`s mother. This is problematic. Perhaps John was not the father but the elder brother of William (c - see below). Moreover one source says they were both excommunicated in 1668 - which seems a little difficult to digest.
In short then we may conceive Ludovick`s paternal line thus:
Name
Born
Died
Notes
John
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acquires Conglass 1624
William (c)
c.1590
1658
m. (2?) Elizabeth Leslie of Balquhain
Walter
c.1612
1654x60?
of Conglass
William (b)
c.1637
-
of Conglass
William (a)
1660
1 Mar 1732
m. Katherin Gordon (c1658- aft. 1715)
Ludovick
c.1689
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[We should enter the caveat, however, that if Dr Bruce Durie is correct in considering a possible elder sister Elizabeth (presumably already married in 1695) then considerable changes would have to be considered to the putative dates.]
The fact that in 1688 the miller at Crichie (an important post collecting multures (a compulsory tax levied on all corn ground) for the Laird etc.), was also a Grant could be taken to suggest that he was a relative - possibly a brother or a cousin, but, because he was not there in 1695, that this close working relationship was relatively new and did not work. [Of course it is also possible that he just died, but if so, why was not the other Ludovick mentioned in the poll?] However this is still not tight enough for us to be sure which William actually acquired Creichie - it could have been William (a) as a young man in say 1681 (presumably his father acquired it and placed him there). Or maybe his father, William (b) actually acquired it for himself sometime between becoming "William Grant of Conglass" and his son coming of age (so sometime after 1660 - suppose his father had died relatively recently?.). Our latest hunting suggests that Creichie was acquired in the 1640s by William Grant - but something is not ringing true.
Working forwards from the Grant Ballindalloch Cadets
At this point we may look to the pedigrees set out in Sir William Fraser`s "Chiefs of Grant" (1883) to consider candidate fathers for this William, born in or around 1590. We may suppose this William`s father to have been born c1565. We may note immediately that Patrick Grant, 2nd of the 1st Grants of Dalvey was married in 1565 (so we may presume his birth c1544). He had a brother Thomas, mentioned in Fraser`s pedigree as being a "boarder in Aberdeen" on his father`s death in 1576 (so b.c1560?) - and clearly far from old enough to have sired two children by 1565! There is no obvious way of interpolating this line into that of the Ballindalloch pedigree, never mind attaching it to any individual mentioned by Fraser.
One idea may be worth following up - but this would exclude a Dalvey connection altogether. The fourth son of Patrick Grant, 1st of Ballindalloch, was a Master William Grant - ie he entered the church. A rough birth date for Master William would have been some time before 1530. While he would not have been able to marry before the reformation (1560), there is no obvious reason why he should not have done so more or less immediately afterwards. His eldest brother John was killed in 1559 in a quarrel with the Grants of Carron. This would give a plausible basis for a son born c1565. That this Master William was less than fully committed to the church may be implied by Fraser`s reference to him witnessing charters for the Chief of Grant and, more particularly, acting as a notary (ie in a professional legal capacity).
Summary:
1. Ludovick the 2nd Baronet of Dalvey died in 1701; Ludovick, described by Fraser as the 4th Baronet (but Sir Archie Grant of Monymusk would say 5th), brother of Sir Alexander resigned Grangegreen in 1755 and died at Moyhall in 1790. Neither of these could be the Cherokee trader.
2. Ludovick Grant the trader may have been from the "Grants of Dalvey" - but if so this was the 1st not the 2nd House. This would resolve the apparent contradiction between claims about Dalvey emanating from America and assertions about Ballindalloch from Grant Chroniclers.
3. Ludovick Grant would have had no inheritance as his father was bankrupt.
4. It may be that Ludovick felt able to marry the Cherokee girl because he could claim that his Edinburgh marriage was irregular and so technically illegal.
Acknowledgements
We take this opportunity of thanking those outwith the Society who have been so helpful in our search so far:
Judith Legg at Old Meldrum Library HQ has gone far beyond the call of duty in digging out material first for Jerry Maddox and then for us.
William Urquhart of Craigston has expended considerable time and effort going through his archives.
Lord Aberdeen and his factor Mark Andrew have been very helpful with Haddo Estate papers.
Rev. Allan MacLean of Dochgarroch without whom we would not know anything about the Episcopal clergy.
The Clan Grant Centre Trust
end of this biography [5]
- About Ludovic Grant
Ludovic Grant is listed by some sources as a clan chief of the Grant clan in Scotland in 1710. He joined the Jacobite rebellion in 1715, which sought to restore James II as King of England. He was captured at Preston and transported with many others who had been captured from Liverpool, England to South Carolina aboard the Susannah in 1716. In a statement recorded on page 301 of the Charleston, South Carolina probate court in the book of 1754-1758, in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, he says: "It has been thirty years since I went to the Cherokee country, where I have resided ever since, I speak their language". His wife was a full blood of the Long Hair clan.
He is regarded as the first white man to marry a Cherokee.
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Ludovick Grant: An Aberdeen, Scotland laird's son possibly ancestor of large part of Cherokee Nation
ACGrant2015
26 June 2016
This is drivel which was disproved nearly a decade ago. Ludovick the Cherokee Trader was NOT in the Dalvey family and neither was born anywhere near Ayrshire. The idea has persisted only because of the arrogant self-aggrandisement of the late Donny Robinson, the self-styled "Oukah" and his side-kick Lee Macdonald. As a matter of fact Ludovick's father was still alive and the Creichie estate was bankrupt. ... https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/6358243
January 12th, 2010 11:18 pm ET
Digging Up Your Roots on BBC's Radio Scotland has posited an extraordinary link between Scotland and the Cherokee Nation. Ludovick Grant, a laird's son who originated in Creichie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, escaped a death sentence after being captured while fighting for the Jacobite army during the battle of Preston in 1715. Apparently, he avoided hanging and was transported to South Carolina, where he served as an indentured servant for seven years. After completing his indenture, Grant worked as a trader with the Cherokee people.
During the program broadcast on January 10, 2010, Marjorie Lowe, a descendent of Ludovick Grant, stated, “Many of our Cherokee leaders were descended from this one intermarriage.” During his time in South Carolina, Ludovick met a Cherokee girl known as Eughioote, and according to the Clan Grant, they had a daughter named Mary. The Seannachie of Clan Grant, Adrian Grant stated: "Although Ludovick only had the one daughter with his Cherokee wife, nevertheless she went on to be the ancestress of so many Cherokees that a huge proportion - something like a third or a half - of all Cherokees now count Ludovick Grant as one of their ancestors."
Representatives from the Cherokee Nation, descendants of Ludovick Grant the younger of Creichie,. will be attending the Clan Grant 3rd International Gathering 2010 this August 13-21, 2010 to further explore this connection. http://www.clangrant.org/index.php
For More Information on Ludovic(k) Grant::
Maddox, Jerry The Legacy of Ludovic Grant, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee
http://genforum.genealogy.com/emory/messages/347.html
http://www.jstor.org/pss/27575222
http://www.innernet.org/tsalagi/history.html\
http://www.bluecorncomics.com/2010/01/cherokees-to-attend-clan-gathering.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ludovic-Grant-Jerry-Maddox/dp/1434306496
http://nativenewsonline.org/history/hist0403.html
Seannachie-A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserves and repeats the traditions of the clan.
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http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0015-0001.html
LUDOVIC GRANT (son of JOHN GRAUNT) was born Abt. 1698 in Scotland, and died 1755 in Charleston, SC. He married (1) ELIZABETH I-DU-I TASSEL in Cherokee Nation East [TN], daughter of KAHYUN TECHEA. She was born Abt. 1706 in CNE [TN], and died in CNE [TN]. He married (2) UNKNOWN 1726. She was born Abt. 1700.
Notes for LUDOVIC GRANT: On page 466, Starr states that Ludovic Grant married a woman of the Long Hair Clan; however, on page 561and 563 it states that he married a member of the Wolf Clan. (Two wives, or a typo?)
He 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 Cherokee, his cousins all went to Boston and the Caribbian 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 on page 301 of the Charlestown, South Carolina probate court in the book of "1754-1758" in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, says, "It is about thirty years since I went into the Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since" "I speak their language".
More About LUDOVIC GRANT: Blood: Scottish Christened: April 12, 1702, Irvine, Scotland Emigration 1: May 07, 1716, from Scottland to the "New World" Emigration 2: Abt. 1726, To Cherokee Nation as Indian Trader Note: "Indian Countryman" of Cheoah Occupation: Fur Trader Starr's Notes: B657 "married a full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair Clan"
More About ELIZABETH I-DU-I TASSEL: Blood: Full Blood Cherokee
More About UNKNOWN: Blood: Full Blood Cherokee Clan: Ani'-Gilãa'hi = Twisters, Braids, or Long Hair Clan (Mary Grant)
Child of LUDOVIC GRANT and UNKNOWN is: 2. i. MARY3 GRANT, b. Abt. 1727, CNE [TN]; d. Abt. 1765, CNE [TN].
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Ludovic Grant: born in 1696 in Scotland and died in 1758 at Tellico Tennessee.
Ludovic, 2nd Baronet of Dalvey, was captured at the battle of Preston during the Jacobite Rebellion in 1715. The focus of the rebellion was to restore the descendents of James VII of Scotland to the British throne. After his capture his lands were confiscated and his title revoked. He was then banished to the "American Plantations", leaving Liverpool England on May 7, 1716 aboard the SUSANNAH.
Around 1725 Ludovic was an established trader in the Cherokee Nation where he married a full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair Clan by the name of Elizabeth Tassel Coody or "Eughioote".
Being of "good" family and well educated, he became the agent and coorespondent of the Governors of South Carolina. His letters keeping the governors informed of the happenings within the Cherokee Nation are published in the Chronicles of that state. He was one of the few traders who were honest and well respected among both the whites and the Cherokee.
ABOUT THE GRANT CLAN:
(information from "The Gathering of the Clans")
It's fairly certain that the ancestors of the Grant clan came with the Normans to England. Richard, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was called "Magnus" in Latin charters. "Magnus" means "great" or "large", the French translation is "le grand".
The Grants appeared in Scotland around the middle of the thirteenth century. They acquired lands in Stratherrick through the marriage of a member of the family to the daughter of Sir John Bisset. They had at least 2 sons. One of them became sherriff of Inverness.
In 1296 at the Battle of Dunbar, John and Randolph de Grant were taken prisioner. They were released. It was around the same time that the Grants acquired the land at Glenmoriston and Glen Urquhart which they still have.
Robert the Bruce's victory confirmed the Grant holdings in Strathspey and they were now established as Highland chiefs.
In 1645, after the Battle of Inverlochy, they joined the Marquess of Montrose. After the Restoration, the Laird of Grant was supposed to be rewarded by becoming an earl, but unfortunately, he died before that could happen.
The Grants formed alliances with other clans in to keep their lands safe. One clan they are particularly associated with is the Macgregors. Some historians believe that the Grant and Macgregor clans are part of the Soil Alpin, and descended from King Alpin, but this has not been proven. Many Macgregors settled on Grant lands after their clan was declared outlaw.
Ludovick Grant, grandfather to Ludovic, was sometimes called "the Highland King". He was appointed a colonel and sherriff of Inverness and in 1694 he was granted the status of a regality, which made him practically a king. This regality was abolished in 1745 after the failure of the Jacobite uprising.
The Grants of Rothiemurchus still hold their lands around Aviemore, and other branches of the family hold lands in Strathspey.
The Castle Grant is still standing.
Branches: Grant of Auchernack, Grant of Tullochgorum, Grant of Gartenbeg Grant of
Dellachapple; baronetcies: Dalvey, Monymusk and Ballindalloch.
Arms: Gules, three antique crowns Or
Badge: A burning hill Proper
Motto: Stand fast
Tartans: Grant, Grant (hunting), Grant of Monymusk.
Septs: Allan, Allanson, Bisset, Bissett, Bowie, Buie, Grant, MacCallan, MacKerron,
MacKiaran, Pratt, Suttie, Gilroy, MacGilroy, MacIlroy
Gaelic Name: Grand
Motto: Craig Elachie (The rock of alarm)
Badge: Pine
Lands: Strathspey, Glen Urquhart, Glen Moriston & Loch Ness
Origin of Name: French, grand (great)
Pipe Music: Stand fast Craigellachie
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Notes for Ludovic Grant:
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 on 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 impressin of him," was Grant's terse comment.
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http://genforum.genealogy.com/emory/messages/347.html Ludovic Grant and the Emory Cherokees Posted by: Lawrence Petrisky Date: January 22, 2004 (larry_petrisky@hotmail.com)
LUDOVIC GRANT was born in Scotland 1690-1696 and was transported (by court sentence) to Charleston, South Carolina, on 7 May 1716. He d.c.1757 and was probably buried in Saint Philip's churchyard in Charleston under the name 'Lodv. Grant' which, in cursive, looks like 'John Grant'. There was a John Grant in Charleston at the time, but there are two John Grants buried at Saint Philips. A John Grant was buried 5 October 1757 at parish expense and the other was buried 7 December 1761. Since Ludovic Grant retired from the Cherokee Nation penniless in 1756 and nothing is heard of him after 1757, it is logical to suppose that Ludovic Grant is the 'John' Grant buried in 1757 but this needs to be confirmed.
His parents may have been John and Catherine Grant of Scotland. The John Grant of Charleston is of unknown relation to Ludovic. A 'Widow Grant' arrived in Savannah, Georgia before 1740 with children Ludovic, Margaret, James and Daniel Grant. This younger Ludovic Grant seems to disappear. [Coulter & Saye, Early Settlers of GA, p. 76]
Ludovic Grant witnessed deeds in Charleston on 12 December 1718, 16 April 1720 and another one on 30 June 1736. He entered the Cherokee trade in 1726 and lived among the tribe until 1756. Grant's own affidavit places him in the Cherokee Nation c.1726.
The expedition of Col. George Chicken in July-September 1725 opened the Upper or Overhill Cherokee towns to permanent trade posts and the journey of Sir Alexander Cuming in 1730 was guided to the Overhills by Ludovic Grant. Grant was at Great Tellico (in what is now Tennessee) until 1735 or so when his father-in-law went into the mountains and became headman of Tomatly (Tomahtli) in what is now western North Carolina.
Ludovic Grant's wife was given the Christian name Elizabeth and she had no surname.
The surnames 'Tassel', 'Coody' and so on given to her are the inventions of modern genealogists (including me ? I wondered if Coody could be Gouedy). A Cherokee name of Eughioote ('You Coo tee') was suggested for her by western descendants but that could be just a name of respect. A confusion with the wife of John Rogers (d.1848) has added to the puzzle. He married Elizabeth Coody, daughter of Arthur Coody and the daughter of Tassel, or Kahyun Techea [from Starr's genealogy].
The father-in-law of Ludovic Grant may not have been a Tassel (there were several of them). He is referred to as the Warrior of Tomatly then the Old Warrior of Tomatly.
The death of Moytoy of Great Tellico c.1733 certainly had something to do with the departure of Grant's father-in-law from that town of influence to the lesser village in the mountains.
Grant's letters from the Cherokee Nation from 1730 to 1756 are a wealth of information about the tribe. He also accompanied delegations to Charleston. In the winter of 1742-43 he went there with a delegation along with James Beamer and Cornelius Dougherty. The Cherokee camped at the New Market Plantation and were hosted by the Amory family, among others. [SC Commons Journal 19 Jan 1743, 28 Feb 1743, 28 Apr 1743]
When he returned to the mountains, he took young Robert Emory and William Emory with him. They became his assistants and soon his son-in-laws.
Children of Ludovic Grant and Eughioote (Elizabeth):
i. SUSANNAH CATHERINE GRANT b.c.1727 Tellico, Cherokee Nation (in what is now Tennessee), d.1769 South Carolina. She may be buried at Saint Philips churchyard in Charleston as Catherine Emory on 22 October 1769. She m. Robert EMORY (b.c.1723 d.1790) in 1743. He was the son of John AMORY and Sarah WILSON, both of England. Susannah is the mother of Susannah EMORY (b.1744 d.c.1765), and the grandmother of Bushyhead (b.1758/9) and John Jolly (b.1761/3).
ii. MARY GRANT b.c.1728/9 Tellico, Cherokee Nation (in what is now Tennessee), d.c. 1766 Goose Creek, South Carolina. She m. William EMORY (b.c.1724 d.1770) in 1743. He was the son of John AMORY and Sarah WILSON, both of England. She had 6 children.
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I read somewhere that 50,000 to 100,000 people are descendants of Ludovic Grant.
Sir Ludovic Grant, Second Baronet of Dalvey
Emigration 1: May 07,1716, from Scottland to the "New World" Emigration 2: c 1726, To Cherokee Nation as Indian Trader Generation No. 2
(894) Ludovic Grant b.About 1700 d. .
A Scotchman, joined the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 which sought to restore James II to the throne of England. He was captured at Preston and was transported with many other captives from Liverpool, England, to South Carolina aboard the "Susannah" on May 7, 1716. In a deposition given by him in 1751, Grant stated that he came to the Cherokee Nation as a trader 26 years before.
A trader around Tellico, North Carolina, in 1730. in a statement recorded on page 301 of the Charlestown, S. C. Probate court in the book dated 1754 -- 1758 in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756,(spc) says, 'it is about 30 years since I went into Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since, I speak their language.' He married a full blooded Cherokee woman ( name unknown, could be Eughioote ) of the Wolf or Long Hair Clan. Grant was among the Cherokees at the time Christian Probner and James Aairs were in the Nation. ( Probner was an ex - Jesuit Missionary of Scottish --English blood. James Adair was probably a Missionary as well. ) In 1754 his home was located at Tommothy in the Cherokee Nation
( see Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations1650-1775,by David Dobson, pub. by Genealogical Publishing Co. , 1984; Scots in the Carolinas 1680-1830, by David Dobson, and Documents Relating to Indian affairs May 21, 1750 - August 7, 1754, edited by William L. McDowell,Jr., pub. by South Carolina Archives Dept., 1958 , SPC=State Papers:Colonial )
Ludovic Grant: born in 1696 in Scotland and died in 1758 at Tellico Tennessee.
Ludovic, 2nd Baronet of Dalvey, was captured at the battle of Preston during the Jacobite Rebellion in 1715. The focus of the rebellion was to restore the descendents of James VII of Scotland to the British throne.
After his capture his lands were confiscated and his title revoked. He was then banished to the "American Plantations", leaving Liverpool England on May 7, 1716 aboard the SUSANNAH.
Around 1725 Ludovic was an established trader in the Cherokee Nation where he married a full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair Clan by the name of Elizabeth Tassel Coody or "Eughioote".
Being of "good" family and well educated, he became the agend and coorespondent of the Governors of South Carolina. His letters keeping the governors informed of the happenings within the Cherokee Nation are published in the Chronicles of that state. He was one of the few traders who were honest and well respected among both the whites and the Cherokee.
ABOUT THE GRANT CLAN:
(information from "The Gathering of the Clans")
It's fairly certain that the ancestors of the Grant clan came with the Normans to England. Richard, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was called "Magnus" in Latin charters. "Magnus" means "great" or "large", the French translation is "le grand".
The Grants appeared in Scotland around the middle of the thirteenth century. They acquired lands in Stratherrick through the marriage of a member of the family to the daughter of Sir John Bisset. They had at least 2 sons. One of them became sherriff of Inverness.
In 1296 at the Battle of Dunbar, John and Randolph de Grant were taken prisioner. They were released. It was around the same time that the Grants acquired the land at Glenmoriston and Glen Urquhart which they still have.
Robert the Bruce's victory confirmed the Grant holdings in Strathspey and they were now established as Highland chiefs.
In 1645, after the Battle of Inverlochy, they joined the Marquess of Montrose. After the Restoration, the Laird of Grant was supposed to be rewarded by becoming an earl, but unfortunately, he died before that could happen.
The Grants formed alliances with other clans in to keep their lands safe. One clan they are particularly associated with is the Macgregors. Some historians believe that the Grant and Macgregor clans are part of the Soil Alpin, and descended from King Alpin, but this has not been proven. Many Macgregors settled on Grant lands after their clan was declared outlaw.
Ludovick Grant, grandfather to Ludovic, was sometimes called "the Highland King". He was appointed a colonel and sherriff of Inverness and in 1694
he was granted the status of a regality, which made him practically a king. This regality was abolished in 1745 after the failure of the Jacobite uprising.
The Grants of Rothiemurchus still hold their lands around Aviemore, and other branches of the family hold lands in Strathspey.
The Castle Grant is still standing.
Branches: Grant of Auchernack, Grant of Tullochgorum, Grant of Gartenbeg Grant of
Dellachapple; baronetcies: Dalvey, Monymusk and Ballindalloch.
Arms: Gules, three antique crowns Or
Badge: A burning hill Proper
Motto: Stand fast
Tartans: Grant, Grant (hunting), Grant of Monymusk.
Septs: Allan, Allanson, Bisset, Bissett, Bowie, Buie, Grant, MacCallan, MacKerron,
MacKiaran, Pratt, Suttie, Gilroy, MacGilroy, MacIlroy
Gaelic Name: Grand
Motto: Craig Elachie (The rock of alarm)
Badge: Pine
Lands: Strathspey, Glen Urquhart, Glen Moriston & Loch Ness
Origin of Name: French, grand (great)
Pipe Music: Stand fast Craigellachie
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0015-0001.html]
On page 466, Starr states that Ludovic Grant married a woman of the Long Hair Clan; however, on page 561and 563 it states that he married a member of the Wolf Clan. (Two wives, or a typo?)
He 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 Cherokee, his cousins all went to Boston and the Caribbian 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 on page 301 of the Charlestown, South Carolina probate court in the book of "1754-1758" in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, says, "It is about thirty years since I went into the Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since" "I speak their language".
Blood: Scottish Christened: April 12, 1702, Irvine, Scotland Emigration 1: May 07, 1716, from Scottland to the "New World" Emigration 2: Abt. 1726, To Cherokee Nation as Indian Trader Note: "Indian Countryman" of Cheoah Occupation: Fur Trader Starr's Notes: B657 "married a full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair Clan"Borders Family History Society
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from the: Borders Family History Society blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2010/01/immigrants Last Sunday's programme, the second of the new episodes of 'Digging up Your Roots', which is broadcast on 92-95 FM every Sunday at midday until 21 February was of wide ranging interest about both emigrants and immigrants.
The first article concerned Ludovic Grant, son of William Grant of Creichie (near Fyvie, in Aberdeenshire), who as a Jacobite soldier in 1715 was captured at the Battle of Preston and sent to America, like many other Jacobite prisoners in 1715 (and in 1745). He served 7 years indenture there, became a trader with the Cherokee providing tools, cloth and beads, married a Cherokee and they had a daughter. There were interesting notes on Cherokee marriage customs. However, Ludovic had married in 1710, and his first wife, Margaret, sued in court in 1736 for a process of adherence.
In spite of his father being a laird, he was bankrupt, so Ludovic had no estate to come back to.
www.clangrant.org/index.aspx?pid=24? The Old Parish Register for Fyvie recognises a Ludovick Grant born in 1688, the ... of the parish shows a Ludovick Grant, son of William Grant, the Laird of Creichie
Believed to be Scottish. Married full blooded Cherokee. Lived in the Carolinas since 1726.
He 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 Cherokee, his cousins all went to Boston and the Caribbian 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 on page 301 of the Charlestown, South Carolina probate court in the book of "1754-1758" in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, says, "It is about thirty years since I went into the Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since" "I speak their language".
Blood: Scottish Christened: April 12, 1702, Irvine, Scotland Emigration 1: May 07, 1716, from Scottland to the "New World" Emigration 2: Abt. 1726, To Cherokee Nation as Indian Trader Note: "Indian Countryman" of Cheoah Occupation: Fur Trader Starr's Notes: B657 "married a full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair Clan"
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LUDOVIC GRANT(JOHN GRAUNT) was born Abt. 1698 in Scotland, and died 1755 in Charleston, SC.He married (1) ELIZABETH I-DU-I TASSEL in CNE [TN], daughter of KAHYUN TECHEA.She was born Abt. 1706 in CNE [TN], and died in CNE [TN].He married (2) UNKNOWN 1726. She was born Abt. 1700.
. Notes for LUDOVIC GRANT: On page 466, Starr states that Ludovic Grant married a woman of the Long Hair Clan; however, on page 561and 563 it states that he married a member of the Wolf Clan.(Two wives, or a typo?) He 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 movedin with the Cherokee, his cousins all went to Boston and the Caribbian 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 on page 301 of the Charlestown, South Carolina probate court in the book of "17541758" in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, says, "It is about thirty years since I went into the Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since" "I speak their language".
More About LUDOVIC GRANT: Blood: Scottish Christened: April 12, 1702, Irvine, Scotland Emigration 1: May 07, 1716, from Scottland to the "New World" Emigration 2: Abt. 1726, To Cherokee Nation as Indian Trader Note: "Indian Countryman" of Cheoah Occupation: Fur Trader
Child of LUDOVIC GRANT and UNKNOWN is:
i. MARY GRANT, b. Abt. 1727, CNE [TN]; d. Abt. 1765, CNE [TN].
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- Ludovic Grant
Who is Ludovic Grant?
He was born in Scotland before 1696 and died before 1762 in Charleston, South Carolina. It is likely that he was buried on 5 Oct 1757 or 7 Dec 1761 at Saint Philips’s Parish under the name “John Grant”. Actually, under the name "Ludv. Grant" which, in cursive, appeared to the indexer as "John Grant". The burial in 1757 was at parish expense, which is more likely to be true of Ludovic than of the John Grant (and I can only find one) of the parish.
There is much speculation about his identity back in Scotland and it’s hard to tell how reliable the various claims are about him. His importance in Cherokee genealogy, however, cannot be overstated. Emmett Starr began his genealogy of the tribe using Grant as a cornerstone and now a million people who think they are Cherokee claim that they are descended from "Mary Grant, of the Long Hair Clan". Tampering with the Mary Grant legend is unpopular
business, but a reconstruction of the evidence is helpful.
From Dobson’s Scots in the Carolinas:
Ludovic Grant. Jacobite soldier captured after the Seige of Preston, Lancashire. Transported from Liverpool to South Carolina on the Susannah, master Thos. Bromhall, on 7 May 1716.
Ludovic Grant was an Indian trader and agent of South Carolina Governor James Glen. Grant’s reports from the Cherokee Nation were held in high regard.
Ludovic Grant in Charleston
There is not much record of him in Charleston. From Clara A. Langley’s South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1719 - 1779, (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1983):
12 December 1718 -- witnessed a deed of gift in Charleston [II, 76]
16 April 1720 -- witnessed a deed of sale in Charleston [I, 107]
30 June 1736 -- witnessed a bill of sale in Charleston [I, 258]
He lived among the Cherokee and appears in records regarding Indian affairs.
When he came down to Charleston, it was usually on matters of importance to the tribe.
A "widow Grant" showed up in Savannah, Georgia, before 1740 with children Ludovic, Margaret, James and Daniel. [Coulter & Saye, Early Settlers of GA, p. 76]
Ludovic Grant into the Cherokee Nation 1726
According to Grant’s own testimony, and Emmett Starr, Ludovic Grant came to the Cherokee Nation around 1726. He remained there until 1756. There is a shortage of records in the 1730’s but by 1740 letters from Ludovic Grant were received into the record of the legislature. Grant first lived at Great Tellico in what is now Tennessee. This is where he met and married his wife, a daughter of a Cherokee headman, usually thought to be Tassel. In the 1730’s he got his own trading post in the Valley (or Middle) towns, residing at Tomatly. (Probably following his father-in-law there, as would be appropriate in Cherokee custom.)
The expedition of Colonel George Chicken into the Cherokee Nation in the summer of 1725 preceded the "fixed" traders at Great Tellico and at the Middle Towns. From him we know Grant was not there:
Colonel George Chicken -
Friday the 23d day of July 1725
Got away from Nocoochee abt 6 of the Clock in the Morning and abt Six at Night we passed by Tamautley in the Upper Settlements and came to Elejoy being abt two Miles further where we lay all Night having Traviled this day thirty five Miles a road which is almost Impossible to Travile in and were Obliged to walk Several Miles of the way.
Munday the 2nd Day of August 1725
The head men of the following Towns being mett together at Tunisee I had the talk Interpreted to them.
Tunissee . Terriquo . Tallassee Towns on this side
Suittico . Coosaw . . . . . . . the hills
Eljoy . Tamantle . . . . . . . Towns on the other
Cheeowee . Conustee . . . . . . side the hills
Towns wanting in the Upper Settlements:
Iwasee and Little Terriquo
Sir Alexander Cuming 1730
When Sir Alexander Cuming visited the Cherokee in 1730 to secure their allegiance to the British crown, Ludovic Grant was one of the guides. Cuming went to Keowee then up the Keowee path to Niquassi (near present-day Franklin, North Carolina) where they were met by a delegation from the Middle towns and the Overhills. Ludovic Grant was a witness to the document of fidelity and friendship foisted on the amused Cherokee by the daring Cuming.
Ludovick Grant -
Sir Alexander had resided sometime in Carolina, and intending to return to England, he was desirous first to see the Cherokee country. I resided then in the town of great Telliguo in that nation, And my buisness calling me to Charlestown I had got the length of Keowee which is about 150 Miles from where I live and I there met Sir Alexander just arrived from Carolina. He acquainted me and some of the other Traders who were going down that he had no Errand but to see the Country And that he would continue there but a few days requesting us to return with him, and accompany him which accordingly we aggreed to do. We dined that day all together at the house of Joseph Baker Trader in Keowee and at dinner some of the Traders mentioned that these Indians were not then in the best Disposition. At night Wee went to the Town house where all the Indians men & women met every night when They were not out hunting even the Headmen go there to partake of the diversion. After we had continued some time there Sir Alexander made a speech, to the head men of the Town, Which I remember perfectly well having had occasion to hear him repeat the same Speech in every Town we went through. Viz. that he was one of the Great King Georges Children but was not sent either by the Great King or any of his Governors – that he was no public person and only came for his own private Satisfaction to see their Country, And that he would Drink the King’s health hopeing that all persons would pledge him which he accordingly did upon his knee desiring us to follow his Example and Wee Desired the Indians to do so. Upon which Sir Alexander said it was easy to make them all good Subjects, but I must not omit a Circumstance pretty Extraordinary. Sir Alexander carried with him into the Town house his Gun, his Cutlass and a pair of pistols, and one of the Traders telling him that the Indians never came there armed, and did not like that any should. He answered with a Wild look, that his intention was if any of the Indians refused the King's health to take a brand out of the fire that Burns in the middle of the room and set fire to the house. That he would guard the door himself and put to death every one that endeavoured to make their Escape that they might all have been consumed to ashes. This strange speech which I and the other Traders heard him make, did not give some of them who were to have been of the party a very favorable opinion of him, so they concluded it would be saffer for them to stay and leave him and me to pursue our Journey which accordingly we did the next morning. [i][3]
Cuming pressed forward into the Cherokee Nation, from the Lower Towns over "Joree" (Ayoree) then to "Tamauchly" and camping at Tassetchee, where a they had "a remarkable Night for Thunder, Lightning, Rain, and what passed bet’ween the Conjurer, head Men, and Sir Alexander."
The next two days (March 28-29) were spent going over the mountains to the Overhill towns, "attended by Ludovick Grant, as well as his Guide William Cooper." They met Moytoy at Great Tellico but Sir Alexander left on March
30th with Grant to "Tannassy" town to meet the king of that town (he also encountered Eleazar Wiggan):
Sir Alexander Cuming -
March 30. Sir Alexander left William Cooper at great Telliquo to take Care of his lame Horse, and took only Ludovick Grant along with him to great Tannassy: This Town is pleasantly situated on a Branch of the Mississippie, and is 16 Miles from great Telliquo; the Path was said to be lined with Enemies, but neither Mr. Grant nor Sir Alexander met with any Accident. Here Sir Alexander met with Mr. Wiggan, the complete Linguist, saw fifteen Enemies Scalps brought in by the Tannassy Warriors, made a Friend of the King of Tannassy, made him do Homage to King George II. on his Knee, returned the same Night to great Tellliquo, was particularly distinguished in the Town-House by Moytoy, where the Indians sung Songs, danced, and stroaked his Head and Body over with Eagles Tails; after this, a Consultation was held with Moytoy and Jacob the Conjurer, who determined to present him with the Crown of Tannassy.
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Most Cherokee histories make much of Cuming’s "crowning" Moytoy, which he never did. [Dictionary of American Biography II 591-592: “At a great congress of the tribe, at Nequasse, Motoy of Tellico, an Anglo-phile chief, was crowned ‘emperor’ of the Cherokee.” In fact as noted above, they did not meet until Cuming went to Tellico in the Overhills. Moytoy was suspected in Charleston of pro-French leanings and, after Cuming took seven chiefs to London, Moytoy ordered attacks on English settlers on the Savannah River.]
Cuming “proclaimed” Moytoy “emperor” but also a subject of the English crown. Cuming insisted on receiving a “crown” from the Cherokee as their king, which he dutifully took off and laid at the feet of King George back in England. [Dictionary of National Biography V 295]
Cuming’s account of his meeting with Moytoy and the other chiefs was that he, Cuming, “was made lawgiver, commander, leader, and chief of the Cherokee Nation, and witness of the power of God, at a general meeting at Nequisee in the Cherokee mountains.” [Dictionary of National Biography V 294]
The Cuming expedition returned the way it came.
Ludovic Grant -
From Telliguo we rode over to Tannassee, and afterwards returned by Neguasae Where several Traders met us and a good many Indians. Sir Alexander had been informed of all the Ceremonies that were used in making a head beloved man, of which there are a great many in this nation. They are called Ouka and as we translate that word King, so we call the Cap he wears upon that occasion his Crown, it resembles a wig and is made of Possum’s hair Dyed Red or Yellow, Sir Alexander was very desirous to see one of them, and there being none at that Town One was sent for to some other Town, He Expressed Great Satisfaction at Seeing of it, and he told the Indians that he would carry it to England and give it to the Great King George. . .[SC History & Genealogy Mag X (1909) p.56-57]
Sir Alexander Cuming -
Sir Alexander made the Witnesses sign to the Substance of what they saw and heard, in order to preserve the Memory thereof, after Words are forgot. The Witnesses were Sir Alexander Cuming, Eleazar Wiggan, Ludovick Grant, Samuel Brown, William Cooper, Agnus Mackferson, David Dowie, Francis Beaver [James Francis Beamer], Lachlan Mackbain, George Hunter, George Chicken, and Joseph Cooper [halfbreed son of William Cooper], Interpreter, besides the Indians.
April 5. Sir Alexander went from Nequassee to Nooulfkah, with only William Cooper and George Hunter, leaving George Chicken to follow after. Here Sir Alexander received Roots of all Kinds, which were ever held among the Indians as the greatest Secrets. From hence he went to Chattoogay, and lay at the house of Joseph Cooper’s Mother.
Ludovic Grant -
He again repeated what he had said at Keowee and the other Towns. That he was one of King George’s Children and came to see their Country, that he was soon going over the Great Water and if any of them would go with him to see England he would carry them. . . . I know all the people that went over to England well, I know they had no Commission of authority from the Nation to give away any of their land, and I know they had no power or right in themselves to do it. I was present when they returned from England and when the presents they brought over with them were distributed and heard them make their report of all that they had seen but I never heard one word about their Surrendering their Country on the Contrary They brought with them a written paper or Parchment which I have seen and read the title of which is Articles proposed or proposals made by the Lords of Trade to the Cherokees, and there is the answer of the Cherokees to these proposals. . . .[ii][9]
For all his daring and adventure, though, Cuming was a bit of a crackpot and spent most of the rest of his life in hospital confinement or in jail. His last plan to gain an audience was to resettle all the Jews into Cherokee territory to form an agricultural paradise. [Dictionary of National Biography V, 295]
Grant moves to the Valley River by 1737 By 1740 the letters of Ludovic Grant are from "Tomalthy". [SC Commons Journal of 18 Jul 1740, 17 Dec 1740]
After the death of Moytoy of Great Tellico in 1733 or so, politics and power struggles must have driven Grant’s father-in-law from that village, perhaps for his own safety. He became head man at Tomatly and appears to be just the second man (after the Raven of Hiwassee) in the Valley towns. From Tomatly, Grant and his father-in-law enjoyed 20 years of relative peace, without scandals or bloodshed. (This is perhaps why there is no mention of William Emory in the journals - he was never in trouble.)
Most of Grant’s letters thereafter came from the village of Tamah’li, or Tomatly. When he met with other senior traders, such as James Beamer, or when he was traveling to Charleston, his letters were marked from different locations but his "home" was in Tomatly, which is located on the Valley River in western North Carolina, nestled in a part of the Smokies called the Snowbird Mountains (actually between the mountains). There is a little town called Tomatola in the approximate location of the original village. (insert description)
In the 1740’s Grant was asked to take some men to Great Tellico to arrest Christian Priber, who was setting up an independent state among the Cherokee with himself as governor. (When it was reported to the authorities in South Carolina, it was made to appear that Priber was setting up a kingdom and had declared himself king and the Cherokee his subjects. This was a slight stretch. Grant could not take Priber into custody because the Cherokee would not let him. Grant did, however, tell the Cherokee he would throw Priber into the fire if he did not shut up.
Ludovick Grant -
One Pryber who Called himself a German but was certainly an Agent for the French. He went up from Amelia Township to the Cherokee Nation, and lived in the Town of Telliquo, and being a great Scholar he soon made himself master of their Tongue, and by his insinuating manner Indeavoured to gain their hearts, he trimmed his hair in the Indian manner & painted as they did, going generally, almost naked, except a shirt & Flap, he told these people that they had been strangely deluded, that they had been tricked out of a great part of their Land by the English, That for the future they should make no concessions to them of any kind but should profess an equal regard for bothe the French and the English, and should trade with both upon the same footing, which would be their greatest security for they would then be courted & carressed & receive presents from both.
I sometime after went up into the Townhouse with a Resolution to try what could be done, but I found that he was well apprized of my design and laughed at me, desiring me to try it, in so insolent a manner that I could hardly bear with it, and I told him although I knew the Indians would not permit me to Carry him down to be hanged, Yet they would not find fault I hoped if I should throw him into the Fire, which I certainly would do if he gave me any further Provocation. [SC Commons Journal]
John P. Brown, the great historian of the Cherokee, in his Old Frontiers (p.53) gives the impression that Grant lived at Chota in Tennessee in 1754. If Grant was there, however, it was to report on the supposed trading by Virginians. Grant’s letters in 1754 and 1755 show his "address" was still Tomatly:
30 April 1752 from “Tomatly”
8 February 1754 from “Timotly”
22 July 1754 from “Tomatly Town”
23 March 1755 from “Tomatly Town”
24 March 1755 from “Tomatly”
27 March 1755 from “Tomatly”
29 April 1755 from “Kewohee” (on his way to Charleston)
20 August 1755 from “Estertoe” (on his way back from Charleston)
1 January 1756 from “Tomatly”
12 February 1756 from “Keowhee” (on his way to Charleston)
When trouble broke out in Keowee in April 1751, James Maxwell rode into North Carolina to see if the trouble was spreading. He rode to Ioree (Ayoree), then to Little Hiwassee. “The twenty fifth I came to Tomahtly to Mr. Grants and staid there all Night.” [SC Commons Journal of 13 May 1751.]
In the August 1751 act which reorganized the Indian trade, Cornelius Daugherty and Ludovic Grant were recognized as the traders of record for the Valley Towns. “Cotocanahut, Nayowee, Tomattly, Cheewohee” were next to
Grant’s name. (Note that Chilhowee was Abraham’s town and played a later role in Emory family history.)
This is all to re-establish the evidence that Ludovic Grant’s daughters were were born at Great Tellico (Tennessee) but the children of his daughters were born at Tomatly (in what is now North Carolina).
Grant again made an enforcement trip with Cornelius Daugherty and their men to Tellico in 1756 to arrest L’Antignac and French John there and bring them to justice, but the French agents got away (with the help of Cherokee friends). [GA Upper House, XVI, January 1757, 147-150; Sc Ind Docs (3) 1754-1765]
(One of the friends was Old Hop, chief at Chota (Tennessee) who defied Governor Glen’s demand to deliver French John (or his scalp) to the governor.)
[SC Indian Docs (3) 411, 412]. Old Hop is not Standing Turkey (Kana-ga-toga) and is confused by later writers with Oconostota. (Standing Turkey was Old Hop’s son.)
[SC Indian Docs (3) 141, 142 – both Old Hop and Standing Turkey are referred to as different men, though Old Hop’s name in his youth was Standing Turkey. SC Indian Docs (2) 1750-1754 ].
Ludovic Grant and the Fort Prince George Treaty at Keowee
On 24 November 1753 Ludovic Grant was a witness to a land cession (treaty) by the Cherokee Nation to the king of England. Chief Old Hop was asked about but he declined to attend, out of respect for Skiagusta (the Old Warrior of Keowee who recently had died). Old Hop was not a Lower Cherokee, though Oconosta (Oconee-Estota) ( = Kanastoga) was before relocating to the Overhills.
The signers of the treaty and the witnesses (there were many present) are helpful in determining Grant’s connections. Only headmen of Keowee and Toxowa (a town a few miles north of Keowee on the path to Tellico) were there to sign, as the land for the fort was historically theirs.
Corane the Raven of Toxowa Co-ra-ne = Raven in lower dialect
Col la neh = Raven in upper dialect
Canacaugh the Great Conjuror of Keowee Oconee-Ka-Ta (grandfather of Warhatchy?)
Ka ni ga ta = Standing Turkey
Sinnawa the Hawk’s Head – warrior of Toxowa unknown
Nelle Wagalche of Toxowa unknown
Yohoma of Keowee unknown
Canasaita of Keowee Oconee-Sa-Ya-di (Oconostota?)
Yorhalche of Toxowa Warhatchy or Wauhatchee from Keowee
Owasta the head beloved man of Toxowa Outtacitee = head man, father of Warhatchy
Raymond Demere British captain
James McKay British or militia captain
White Outerbridge British or militia captain, of Charleston (Saint Philip’s)
James Glen Thomas Glen? James Glen = Governor of South Carolina
Thomas ---- Thomas Glen?
James Francis a militia captain at Ninety Six, not well liked but had
business with Thomas Nightingale
Ludwick Grant a friend of Gov James Glen and James Beamer
James Beamer a leading trader of the Lower Towns, a friend of Thomas
Nightingale, Gov. James Glen and Ludovic Grant
John Elliot a trader in the Lower Towns, not liked by Little Carpenter
or by Ludovic Grant. Was killed by Cherokee Feb 1760.
Who was Ludovic Grant’s wife?
Emmett Starr and contemporary Cherokee genealogists are not certain of her precise name but a Cherokee name of Eughioote and an English name of Elizabeth Coo-tey have been suggested for her. Because the “Coody” name is popular among the western tribe her name is rendered Coody. I am of the opinion that the Coody name is mostly an adaptation of Gouedy. Because Cherokee have trouble with the “G” as the beginning of a name, “Eu-ghi” is the “inhale-exhale” start of “Goot-tey”, or Gouedy. Thus I think “Eughioote” is Gouedy (Gowdey). And “Coo-tey” (Coody) (exhale-exhale) is the easier form of Gouedy. Not that the Cherokee were reading the name Gouedy, but Robert Gouedy lived among them for 40 or 50 years and surely had many children but no Cherokee “Gouedy” families are known.
Was Elizabeth Coody (Eughioote) a relative of Robert Gouedy? In an earlier paper on the Vanns I suggested that she might be a daughter or ex-wife of Gouedy but this now seems impossible. She was at best a sister-in-law. The Old People in Indian Territory may have remembered her through her sister, wife of Eughioote (Gouedy). Gouedy was an associate of Thomas Nightingale and did work in the Overhill Towns after William Elder retired. He then retired to the Ninety Six and Abbeville Districts, putting him close to the Emorys there. Gouedy and Cornelius Daugherty did not like each other, but that is no barrier to Gouedy being the brother-in-law of Ludovic Grant.
On the other hand, the wife of Capt John Rogers Jr.(d.1848) married Elizabeth Coody, a daughter of Arthur Coody (the half-breed translator), who may be a son of Robert Gouedy (since he is from South Carolina whereas the later Cody family in 1780 was from Virginia). It could be that descendants remembered her in one generation and in another generation -- and this casts doubt on the name of Grant’s wife.
The father of Elizabeth was Kahyun Techea [Starr] or commony, Tassel, or Corn Silk, a name used by three generations before the removal and is still in use today (Corn Tassel). "Kahyun Techea" presents a problem. Old Hop used a
form of the name in 1752: Caneecatee, and there was a Conotatche of Tugaloo. [SC Indian Docs II,76] Kahyun could be dialectic for Bullfrog and with the second word (dialectic for green?) mean Springfrog? Or it could be a variant of Long (Hair?).
Unfortunately, it is a family name not used by Grant’s father-in-law in Grant’s correspondence or otherwise. He is simply known as the Warrior of Tomatley and later as the Old Warrior of Tomatley. He died before 1763. [SC Indian Docs (2), 119, 237, 304-306; (3) 244-5, 260, 305, 351].
His son was probably Outossite (Mankiller) of Tomatley, aka Corn Tassel, aka Old Tassel who was killed in 1788. So the Old Tassel (d.1788) that we refer to as Elizabeth’s father is her brother. Elizabeth would be born c. 1711, making her father’s date of birth sometime before 1695. Other siblings of Elizabeth could be Abraham, a sister who married Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter) (he had various wives), and a sister who married Robert Gouedy. The “Chief of Watauga” (b.c. 1715) who may also be known as Willenawau, is perhaps another brother, given later associations with her family. (This may be her brother Tassel, aka Old Tassel, who d.1788.)
Children of Ludovic Grant
Emmett Starr gives only one child known for Ludovic Grant and Eughioote: a daughter named Mary. Using known and suspected Emory connections, however, there have to be two daughters born to Ludovic Grant. An older daughter, Susannah Catherine, is assumed.
i. Susannah Catherine Grant b.c. 1727 Great Tellico, Cherokee Nation (Tennessee) d.bef. 1770 m. 1743 Robert Emory (d.1790). Her daughter Susannah (b.1744) was the mother of Bushyhea (b.1758/9 TN).
ii. Mary Grant b.c. 1729 Great Tellico, Cherokee Nation (Tennessee) d.bef. 1766 m. 1743 William Emory (d.1770) Her daughter Susannah (b.1750) was the mother of Richard Fields. Her oldest child was Will Emory (b.1744 d.1788).
Starr does not show Will Emory (b.1744) or Robert Emory and he only shows one Susannah. But he shows the mother of Bushyhead (Susannah) to be the third daughter of William Emory (d.1770). Given that Ludovic Grant entered the Cherokee Nation in 1726 and the Emorys entered in 1743, Will Emory (b.1744) is listed as a warrior in 1761, and Bushyhead was born no later than 1760, Starr’s construction becomes an impossibility. The order of the three daughtersof William Emory (d.1770) is accepted as: Mary, Elizabeth, Susannah. (Starr even says this order is reliable. Birth dates of their children support this order as well.)
Catherine is a better guess than Susannah as the name for the first daughter because several researchers feel Ludovic Grant’s parents were named John and Katherine. Ka-Ti appears among Bushyhead descendants. And there is an unidentified Catherine Emory buried 22 October 1769 at Saint Philip’s close to Thomas Nightingale (buried 4 November 1769, followed two weeks later by a Mary Emory who was John Emory’s second wife.
The "Susannah Catherine" construction is interesting because that was the name of Major Ridge’s mother, and she was b.c.1740-1755. [Encyclopedia of Native American Biography, 321]
For further discussion, see John Stuart, Bushyhead and the others referred to above.
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- Things in Scotland were good for Ludovic Grant. He was the freakin 2nd Baronet of Dalvey, meaning he was the Justin Bieber of his day. He had tons of land ,lots of sweet clothes ,long hair that all the girls loved , expensive hounds for hunting and magnificent steeds to ride . Ludovic led part of clan Grant into the Jacobite Rebellion, probably to spite his Father, who fought for the other side. Captured at the battle of Preston , Grant would find himself on a ship bound for the wilderness of Charleston S.C. , completely stripped of his lands, hounds, and cool titles. Ludovic was also looking at 7 years of crappy, boring errands, washing dirty underwear,etc. as an indentured servant..
A Highlander by birth, flat and hot Charleston, full of prissy Englishmen ,wasn't going to cut it. As soon as possible Grant packed up a mule-train with trinkets for trading , and swapped his kilt for a breechcloth and his stylish beret for a - well he probably kept the beret.Heading into the wilderness, Grant made his way through the mountains and eventually made his home at the large overhill Cherokee village of Grand Tellico. Men from the Overhill villages were like the Navy Seals of the Cherokee, who grew up snacking on rattlesnakes and running up and down mountains for kicks. Grant felt a bond with these raw fighters, who reminded him of the untamed, ferocious highland clansman he had left behind. The Cherokee were equally impressed with this tough as nails Scotsman who head-butted bears and caught trout using his teeth. "Lud" as his friends called him, had it made , spending his days growing his stockpile of deerskins, growing a sweet beard, and eventually becoming the backwoods enforcer and spy for the Governor of South Carolina, James Glen.
Think of Tony Soprano , dressed in deerskins and furs, instead of tracksuits and tanktops. So this 18th century "enforcer",was busting up stills,kicking the crap out of anyone who tried to cheat the Indians ,trading tons of deerskins, and making flaming cocktails from the bottles of unlicensed traders whiskey shipments. In one letter to Gov. Glen ,Grant warned what would happen should the French gain favor over the English with regard to the Overhills. He bluntly pointed out the power and influence which the overhill towns held within the Cherokee Nation when he wrote ... "If the enemy once gets possession of the Overhill Indians, all others will quickly submit to save their lives."
One such trouble-maker, looking for a quick pipe to the kneecaps and a shallow grave, was Christian Priber. Priber was a French agitator, and utopian hippie, who had been talking more and more smack to Gov. Glen- using cowardly letters of course. The letters usually ran something like " The faster the English leave South Carolina, the Better." Priber had developed a European style monarchy for the Overhill Cherokee, anointing one,Amatoya, as King, and appointing himself Prime Minister to the King.
Grant went looking and found Priber waiting with some warriors in the village townhouse. Priber knew all about the plan ato bring him in and pranced wildly around the townhouse, daring Grant to try it. Priber laughed in his face,gave a limp-wristed point towards his Indian bodyguards and indicated the Indians would not permit it. Grant was extremely angry and could hardly control himself from shooting Priber. He basically said "screw it, they may not let me drag you behind my mule back to Charleston to hang, but I don't think they will care if I throw you in the fire right here and now.”
After years of giving Georgia traders and French spies indian burns and cracked skulls, Grant grew bored with the same old daily grind and married a Cherokee woman named Eughioote, whom he simply called Elizabeth. In an effort to avoid any further name confusion they named their only daughter Mary-this Mary, Mary Grant of the Longhair Clan is believed to be a common ancestor of 1/3-1/2 of all Cherokee.
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