Susannah Emory was born in the Cherokee country at Great Tellico, now located in Monroe County, Tennessee.
13 Facts About Susannah Emory
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Susannah Emory's family was displaced frequently because of various wars that took place on the frontier, but she was known to have been friendly to White settlers.
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Susannah Emory was likely born in the 1740s, in the Old Cherokee Nation at Great Tellico, now located in Monroe County, Tennessee near Tellico Plains.
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Susannah Emory says a "more logical explanation" is that Emory's kinship group moved there first.
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Susannah Emory's company was tasked with selecting a site and building Fort Loudoun to protect Cherokee women and children in times of war.
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Writer Carla Toney stated that Bushyhead and his cousin, John Rogers, son of Elizabeth Susannah Emory, were part of the Chickamauga Cherokee, who remained loyalists and resisted the American forces during the American Revolutionary War.
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Fields stated that the family likely stayed in this area, as Susannah Emory's children from her third marriage were born in the region around the Tugaloo River in what is located in Habersham and White Counties of Georgia.
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Susannah Emory served as a witness to a land cessation along the Broad River of Georgia, which was drawn in Chota in 1771, between traders and eight sachem and warriors to settle their trade debts.
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Susannah Emory was "uniformly friendly to the white people from the commencement of the revolutionary war" and warned them when they might be in danger, according to Judge David Campbell of Tennessee.
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Susannah Emory migrated to Indian Territory and lived in the Saline district.
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The youngest daughter, Susannah Emory, married George Brewer, and later Thomas Foreman.
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Susannah Emory served as a Cherokee Constitutional Convention delegate in 1827 at New Echota, was the first treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, and "first Chief Justice of the first supreme court ever instituted in the Cherokee Nation".
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Susannah Emory removed to Indian Territory and died on October 17,1840, near Fort Gibson, where he was buried.