Jesse Hicks

Jesse was a Cherokee man

Biography

Jesse Hicks was born about 1802 in the Cherokee Nation, the son of Charles Renatus Hicks and his wife Nancy Broom, both Cherokee. He attended the school run by Moravian missionaries at Spring Place from 1811 through 1816 when he was dismissed for poor behavior. [1] He may have had epilepsy, since the Moravians referred to him having "convulsive seizures." [2] He was enrolled at the mission school at Brainerd from December 1818 through December of 1821. [3] He married a Cherokee woman named "Quatie" about 1823 and was the father of a daughter named Anny, born about 1824. [4]

Jesse traveled the Trail of Tears three times, serving as interpreter for two Removal detachments, the Ridge party in 1837 and Lt. Deas party in 1838, [5] and finally Removing to Indian Territory with his family in the detachment led by his brother Elijah in October, 1838. Jesse arrived safely and settled in the Flint District. He drew subsistence money in both 1838 and 1839. [6] In 1842 Jesse's mother and four of his siblings filed a claim for losses of property in the East. [7] He does not appear in the 1851 Drennan Roll so he must have died by then.

Sources

1. ↑ Crews & Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK. Vol. 4, p. 1974
2. ↑ Crews and Starbuck, "Moravians," Vol. 5, p. 2102
3. ↑ Phillips, Joyce and Paul, eds. The Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees 1817-1823. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1998. p. 411
4. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application #12651, granddaughter Nancy Broom Christie. Images at Fold3 Christie
5. ↑ Receipt for payment held at University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR. transcript at receipt
6. ↑ Stricklin, Dawn, compiler. Cherokee Claims. National Archives and Records Administration Special File 154, Vol. 1 M574, Roll 32. Heritage Books, Westminster, MD. 2007. pp. 148 & 171.
7.↑ Chase, Maybelle. 1842 Cherokee Claims Flint District Volume 1, p. 223

• List of Students attending Spring Place School

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hicks-6802
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JESSE HICKS (CHARLES RENATUS6, NA-YE-HI5CONRAD, JENNIE4ANI'-WA'YA, OCONOSTOTA3, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born May 11, 1802, and died Aft. 1842.
He married QUE-DI. She was born Abt. 1808.

• Blood: 3/4 Cherokee (per Brainerd Mission student list)
• Clan: Ani'-Wa'ya = Wolf Clan (Broom)
• Detachment 1: March 01, 1837, 37-b Dr Young/Maj Ridge (by water) as Interpreter
• Detachment 2: June 06, 1838, 38-d Lt Edward Deas (by water) as Interpreter, 1m-50 1f-10 1f-50
• Detachment 3: October 04, 1838, 38-02 E Hicks/Whitepath as Wagoner
• Education: May 11, 1811, Spring Place Mission School
• Religion: December 07, 1818, Brainerd Church, Old CN

Child of JESSE HICKS and QUE-DI is:
1397. i. A-NI8 HICKS, b. Abt. 1824, CNE; d. 1901.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Amatoya Moytoy” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com, 2023, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0021...