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White Traders and Agents Among the Cherokee
by Carla Toney

I was looking through the library here in Karlsruhe, Germany the other day and I noticed some names that I couldn’t remember seeing before: names of Indian traders, agents, missionaries, and people who settled with different Indian bands and tribes.

Since these names appear in the colonial records of Britain, France, Spain, Canada and Mexico, they are people who probably intermarried at a very early date.

For some of them there are tribal records. Others seem to simply disappear. So I'll list them now below – and you can see if they are names that you’ve been searching for.

• Baille, George - trader
• Beamer, James - Cherokee trader
• Beamer, Thomas – appears in South Carolina Council Chamber Journal, 1760
• Beng, John - Cherokee trader
• Brown, Patrick – Indian trader
• Buckells, John – Chickasaw trader
• Butler, James – Cherokee trader
• Carey, also Cery, James – Indian interpreter
• Cary, John – Cherokee trader
• Coodey, Arthur, also Cuddie – mentioned in Colonial Records
• Dansmoor, ......... – lives with Cherokees
• Dennis, Mr. ..... – custodian of a mixed-blood Cherokee
• De Rossel, ....... – supplier of goods to Indians travelling through North Carolina
• Dougharty, Cornelius, also Doharty – Indian trader
• Elliott, John – Indian trader
• Elliott, Matthew – mentioned in Colonial Records
• Eyres, ......... – Indian agent among Cherokees
• Forbes, John – his company in charge of trade with Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Talapooses
• Fourneret, Louis – interpreter
• Galphin, George – mentioned in Colonial Records
• Galphin, John – mentioned in Colonial Records
• Garth, Charles – Indian agent
• Gist, Christopher – mentioned in Colonial Records
• Gist, Nathanial – mentioned in Colonial Records in connection with Oconostata, Raven, Dragging Canoe and Tassel, 1777
• Grant, Ludovick – trader
• Hammerer, John D. – teacher among Cherokees
• Hassell, Reverend Thomas – minister
• Hawkins, Benjamin – mentioned in Colonial Records
• Hicks, Charles - mentioned in Colonial Records
• Hicks, James - mentioned in Colonial Records
• Hix, Robert - mentioned in Colonial Records
• Jamieson, John – trader
• Jonnes, Baron des – lives among the Cherokees
• Lorimier, Luis – interpreter
• McClemore, Robin – a treaty signatory, 1791, along with Teesteke, Skyuka, John Thompson and James Cery
• McCulloch, Nathaniel - mentioned in Colonial Records
• McDonald, John – Spanish commissioner among the Cherokee, associated with Bloody Fellow
• Macarty, Juan Bautista – Indian trader
• Macullagh, Alexander - mentioned in Colonial Records
• Martin, ....... – missionary to Cherokees
• Martin, Gen. – Indian agent
• Maxent, Gilberto Antonio – Spanish Indian agent
• Morris, Henry – messenger to Cherokees and Catawbas
• Murphy, Dan – settled with Cherokees
• Netherclift, Thomas – trader
• Nunn, John – Cherokee trader
• Offley, ........ – trader
• Palazio, Lucas de - mentioned in Colonial Records
• Patten, John – Indian trader
• Pawley, Col. – Cherokee agent
• Pinckney, William – commissioner of Indian trade
• Post, Christian F. – missionary
• Richardson, Reverend ......... – missionary
• Seagrove, James – American Indian agent
• Smith, Richard – Cherokee interpreter
• Spalding, James – Indian trader
• Thomas, Samuel – interpreter
• Thompson, John – interpreter
• Trueheart, Aaron – interpreter
• Waters, also Waters, R. J. – trader
• Wiggan, Elizar – Cherokee trader
• Wyat, also Wyatt, A. B. – Cherokee trader
• Ynnerarity, James – associate of John Forbes, in charge of trade with Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Talapooses

Your feedback is appreciated: Carla Toney