12 Facts About John Pitchlynn

John Pitchlynn served as the official US Interpreter at the Choctaw Agency during the early federal period.

John Pitchlynn facilitated relations between the government of the United States and the Choctaw Nation.

John Pitchlynn was appointed by President George Washington after the United States achieved independence, and served through the administration of Andrew Jackson.

John Pitchlynn built a fortified home on the west bank of the Tombigbee River in present-day Mississippi.

John Pitchlynn was born near Charleston, South Carolina, then a British colony.

John Pitchlynn was the son of Isaac, a Scots immigrant, and his wife Jemima Hickman Pitchlynn, who died young.

John Pitchlynn first served as an interpreter at the Treaty of Hopewell.

John Pitchlynn served as an interpreter at the Treaty of Fort Confederation and the Treaty of Mount Dexter and was present at the signings of the Treaty of Doak's Stand and Treaty of Washington City.

John Pitchlynn later married Sophia Folsom, a mixed-race Choctaw of partly Anglo-American descent.

John Pitchlynn's father was Ebenezer Folsom, and her mother Natika was Choctaw.

The senior John Pitchlynn had ensured that his son Peter was educated in Anglo-American classical tradition, as well as in Choctaw culture.

John Pitchlynn died on his plantation at Waverly, Mississippi on May 20,1835.