“The Broom”, Cherokee chief

The Cherokee Chief I know of who was called, "The Broom", lived somewhat later than the "Broom" described here. The "Broom" I know of was a signatory of the Tellico Treaty of about 1797, having been summoned from his home at "Broomtown" near the Georgia-Alabama state line. The Tellico treaty was signed at Tellico Blockhouse, which was near the present Vonore, TN, south of Knoxville, and on the Little Tennessee River. Broomtown Road still exists, and is so marked, although it has also long been designated as Georgia Highway 337. It runs from Menlo, GA to LaFayette, GA. That road also was once called, "Brainerd's Road", as it led from old Cherokee lands to David Brainerd's Mission to the Cherokee, on the exact site as the present Eastgate Center in Chattanooga. Brainerd Mission cemetery is preserved beside that site. ~Chester Martin, 8 November 2015

Chief Broom was the headman of a town called Broomtown in what is now northwest Georgia. He and his wife were the parents of Nancy/Nanyehi Broom Hicks, wife of Charles Renatus Hicks. They are clearly documented in the Moravian Diaries since Charles, Nancy, and her mother were all converts and Charles and Nancy were the parents of several children. I have no idea why people keep attaching "Dutch" to Chief Broom, who has no other known name. Starr messed up the generations in this family and listed Nancy Broom as the wife of Nathan Hicks, Charles' father.