John Watts (abt. 1704 - abt. 1771)

Born about 1704 in Bowling Green, Caroline, Virginia

Husband of Josephine (Stuart) Watts — married 8 Apr 1745 in South Carolina

Descendants

Died about 4 Mar 1771 at about age 67 in Tennessee

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Biography

John was born about 1704. John Watts ... He passed away about 1771.^[1]

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John Watts was the "mixed-blood", or mixed-race son of British trader John Watts, 1704–1779, and a Cherokee mother, Oousta White Owl Carpenter, 1722–1768. The senior Watts, father of Young Tassell, served as the official British government Indian interpreter for the area until his death in 1779. Watts's mother, Oousta, was a sister of Cherokee chiefs Attakullkulla Carpenter 1702–1777 and Old Tassel - Great Eagle Carpenter 1702–1777, father to Chief DoubleHead, Hanging Maw and Pumpkin Boy. The young Watts was raised in Cherokee culture.[1] Watts' parents resided in the Overhill Towns along the Little Tennessee River. Elizabeth Wurteh "Betsy" Watts was the mother of Chief John Jolly, Chief Robert Benge, Tahlonteeskee, Bloody Fellow, James Benge and Sequoyah. Their brother John Watts Bowles, 1756–1839, was Chief of the Arkansas Cherokee, leading a contingent of Chickamauga west of the Mississippi into Spanish Territory, present day St. Francis River, Parkin, Arkansas, in 1794. A passport was required from Spanish Governor in Mexico City. Young Tassell married and had children with Mary Johnson (children John and Margaret Watts documented, others possible); Wurteagua Carpenter (Mink, John, Soup and Fish Tail, possible others); Oousta White Owl Hanging Maw (Thomas Rattling Gourd Watts, Two Wood, PeachEater, Elizabeth, Jacob Oostooli Z Watts, Councilor John J); and Tsiyugi (Rachel, John and Mary Polly) - each of these have been documented. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Watts_(Cherokee_chief)&ved=2ahUKEwjw9rKQveaFAxUFkYkEHdGnChQQFnoECCIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3k-Ca45qc1ZBkzfXo0e60p

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Source:Cozzens._Tecumseh

Brown, , John P. Old Frontiers. Southern Publishers Inc. Kingsport TN 1938. p. 353

Martini, Don. Who was who among the southern Indians, A genealogical notebook, 1698-1907. "Watts, John - Cherokee Chief, was born in 1753, the son of Trader John Watts. Also known as Kettiegesta, he was for many years a leading chief of the warlike Chickamauga faction of Cherokees that waged war on the American Frontier.,,, He was a brother to Unacata and to a Cherokee killed at Boyd's Creek, and was the father of John Watts, Big Rattlinggourd, and perhaps Hard Mush (Gatunuali).

Hoig, Stanley. The Cherokees and Their Chiefs, University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 1998. p. 79 referencing North Carolina State Records held in the collection of the Oklahoma Historical Society. 11:179 Hoig, "Chiefs," p. 79.

American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. 1, p.536 ff. Digitized at Tellico John Watts (Cherokee Chief), Wikipedia Doublehead, Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief By Rickey Butch Walker (caution, much of this book is undocumented)

Ginny Watts, website http://thssite.tripod.com/stt2/chic.html Other website]

Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South" by Theda Perdue; Google Books online.

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1938, Eastern Cherokee Chiefs by John P. Brown, pp.24-28

History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period, by Albert James Pickett, Rootsweb.