Marmaduke Daniel

Biography

Marmaduke was born in 1736. Marmaduke Daniel ... He passed away in 1806.

According to Emmett Starr he had 9 children with his wife Nannie Still, whose parents are unknown

• James Daniel. Mary Buffington. See Grant 11121384
• Moses Daniel. Martha Tarrant.
• Catherine Daniel. Ellis Buffington. See Grant 11121374
• Mary Daniel. Thomas Buffington and Lewis Blackburn Note A43. Mary Daniel, born October 15, 1787. Married Thomas Buffington and on his decease she married Lewis Blackburn, a White man, born July 17, 1778 in Stokes County, North Carolina.
• Walker Daniel. Unmarried
• John Ross Daniel. Martha Martin. See Grant 1112133445
• Nannie Daniel.
• Jennie Daniel. * Hiram McCreary.
• Thomas Daniel. Unmarried

Marmaduke Daniel, (Curator note: an Englishman theoretically but there is no evidence of his nationality without evidence of his parents, whom are unknown. Note that WikiTree refers to him as a “white man” only), married Nannie Still a "full blood Cherokee" and had a son James, of mixed blood, who married Mary Buffington, a mixed blood Cherokee. Mary was the daughter of Ezekiel Buffington, an English American trader who immigrated from Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Mary Emory, who was 1/4 Cherokee. Mary Emory was the granddaughter of Ludovic Grant, a Scotsman and early trader.

In the note the military person writing about 1831 to Governor Gilmore of Georgia called him a "celebrated Mississippi freebooter who only desisted when he could no longer continue his robbery and piracy upon that river with impunity. He afterwards sought an asylum in the Cherokee Mountains and identified himself with the Indians by taking to himself one of their Squaws." Source:J.W.A. Sanford letter book, Georgia College Library, Milledgeville.

A note about Marmaduke from the papers of Dr. Pritchett: "Marmaduke had a large family and ran a school in his home to educate his children. This happened in the 1760's & 70's.His family seems to have all moved South or West. It appears that Marmaduke Daniel moved to North Carolina with his family after the Revolutionary War."(this will need some checking to see if the above Marmaduke is a correct assignment), taken from "Whites Among the Cherokees, Georgia 1828-1838" edited by Warren and Weeks.

Sources

Source: The WikiTree Native American Project @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Daniel-4319

Research Notes:

• the birthdate of Marmaduke ranges from 1736 to1766
• WikiTree shows two conflicting dates, 1766 as a birthdate and 1736 in the bio
• dates of his children are established in Our Family Tree” beginning in 1787.
• conclusion therefore is that 1736 and 1750 are too early as his first child would hav3 been born at age 47-51. The date 1766 with first child born at age 21 appears more reasonable
• Blood: Non-Cherokee
• Occupation: March 11, 1797, Licensed hireling to [Ellis] Harlin

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Descendants of Marmaduke Daniel

Generation No. 1

1. MARMADUKE1 DANIEL (Source: Emmet Starr, Daniel 1.) was born Abt. 1740.He married NANNIE STILL (Source: Emmet Starr, E Starr, 399.).She was born Abt. 1750. Occupation: March 11, 1797, Licensed hireing to [Ellis] Harlin

Children of MARMADUKE DANIEL and NANNIE STILL are:

• i. JAMES2 DANIEL, SR, JUDGE, b. Abt. 1781; d. Abt. 1838.
• ii. WALKER DANIEL (Source: Emmet Starr, Daniel 1-5.), b. Abt. 1782 (Source: no issue.).
• iii. MOSES DANIEL, b. Abt. 1783; d. Bef. 1851.
• iv. CATHERINE DANIEL, b. Abt. 1785, CNE; d. November 20, 1867.
• v. NANNIE DANIEL (Source: Emmet Starr, Daniel 1-7.), b. Abt. 1786.
• vi. MARY DANIEL, b. October 15, 1787, CNE; d. March 25, 1852.
• vii. JENNIE DANIEL (Source: Emmet Starr, Daniel 1-8.), b. Abt. 1788 (Source: no issue.); m. HIRAM MCCREARY (Source: (1) Emmet Starr, E Starr, 399., (2) Emmet Starr, E Starr, 307.); b. Abt. 1780.
• viii. THOMAS DANIEL (Source: Emmet Starr, Daniel 1-9.), b. Abt. 1790 (Source: no issue.).
• ix. JOHN ROSS DANIEL, b. Abt. 1792.
• Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Marmaduke Daniel” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com, 2023, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0008....
• JOHN DANIEL+ANN WRIGHT+RHODA DICKSON, VA By Vera Cotter August 24, 2000 Genealogy.com https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/daniel/1745/