john ross, cherokee family tree

He married Elizabeth "Quatie" Brown, also Cherokee in 1813. Hicks was very popular with his people, and was one of the earliest converts under the missionary labors of the Moravians. The national affairs of the Cherokees had been administered by a council, consisting of delegates from the several towns, appointed by the chiefs, in connection with the latter. His petitions to President Andrew Jackson, under whom he had fought during the Creek War (181314), went unheeded, and in May 1830 the Indian Removal Act forced the tribes, under military duress, to exchange their traditional lands for unknown western prairie. Under the customs of the blood feud, when a person was killed, the victim's clan was obligated to kill a member of the murderer's clan. The orphan boy landed at Baltimore, Md. //

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