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About William Penn Boudinot
William Penn Baudinot was the son of Elias Boudinot, editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American newspaper, and Harriet Ruggles (Gold) Boudinot from Connecticut.
After his wife's death in 1836, Elias Boudinot needed to relocate both himself and the children. He sent their son, Cornelius, to live with a family in Huntsville, Alabama, where he could be treated for his condition by a doctor. Another son traveled west with the Ridge family. The rest of the children were enrolled in school at Brainerd, where they could stay when Elias left the territory.
Elias Boudinot and three other leaders were assassinated in 1839 as retaliation for having ceded their homeland in the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. The Boudinot children were orphaned by their father's murder, as their mother had died in 1836. They were sent for their safety to their mother's family in Connecticut, where they received their educations.
From http://www.sedgwick.org/na/families/robert1613/B/1/3/C/3/WilliamPen...
By Helen Currie Davis, Millington, TN
William Penn Boudinot third child born to Elias and Harriet Ruggles Gold Boudinot was aptly named for an old friend of his father. Elias, who was the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, had followed with interest his friend, Jeremiah Evarts series of twenty-four essays written for the National Intelligencer, on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians. Jeremiah had used the pseudonym, "William Penn." The child so aptly named would follow in the footsteps of his father and Jeremiah Evarts.
William was just a young boy of seven when his mother died. At the age of ten his father, Elias, was murdered. When Delight Sargent, second wife of Elias, and the children moved back East they lost annuities and tribal rights.
William received an education at the Gunnery. He lived for a time with his maternal grandmother, Eleanor Johnson Gold of Cornwall, CT.
Around 1844 when William was 14 years of age he lived in Philadelphia, PA engraving with one of his cousins. He enjoyed the business he was in. He spent time between Washington, CT and Philadelphia, PA as he states in a letter dated 1848 to his Uncle Stand Watie. He was doing well in the engraving business but blamed poor eyesight and health for not presuing the business. I believe it was his hearts desire to go back to his home in the Cherokee Nation.
During the period of time between April 26, 1848 when William was living in Philadelphia and March 13, 1850 he has moved to Ft. Smith, Arkansas. He's listed on the 1851 Drennen Roll as living alone. The time between his arrival in the Cherokee Nation West and his marriage to Caroline he had a relationship with Eleanor "Ellen" Reese. Ellen was his first cousin once removed. This union produced one child, Emma Inez. Emma was my great great grandmother.
He married in 1853 in Park Hill, Indian Territory (now Cherokee Co., OK) Caroline Matilda Rogers Fields, daughter of Thomas Fields and Nannie Rogers Downing. Caroline was educated at Dwight Mission School. They were the parents of Margaret, Elias Cornelius (1854-1896), Richard Fields (1896), Thomas (1858-1862), Eleanor Margaret (1861), Henry French (1863-1885), Francis "Frank" Josiah (1866), and Caroline Mary (1872-1895).
References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_R._Gold_Boudinot
- Gaul, Theresa Strouth, Ed. To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
William Penn Baudinot was the son of Elias Boudinot, editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American newspaper, and Harriet Ruggles (Gold) Boudinot from Connecticut.
After his wife's death in 1836, Elias Boudinot needed to relocate both himself and the children. He sent their son, Cornelius, to live with a family in Huntsville, Alabama, where he could be treated for his condition by a doctor. Another son traveled west with the Ridge family. The rest of the children were enrolled in school at Brainerd, where they could stay when Elias left the territory.
Elias Boudinot and three other leaders were assassinated in 1839 as retaliation for having ceded their homeland in the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. The Boudinot children were orphaned by their father's murder, as their mother had died in 1836. They were sent for their safety to their mother's family in Connecticut, where they received their educations.
From http://www.sedgwick.org/na/families/robert1613/B/1/3/C/3/WilliamPen...
By Helen Currie Davis, Millington, TN
William Penn Boudinot third child born to Elias and Harriet Ruggles Gold Boudinot was aptly named for an old friend of his father. Elias, who was the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, had followed with interest his friend, Jeremiah Evarts series of twenty-four essays written for the National Intelligencer, on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians. Jeremiah had used the pseudonym, "William Penn." The child so aptly named would follow in the footsteps of his father and Jeremiah Evarts.
William was just a young boy of seven when his mother died. At the age of ten his father, Elias, was murdered. When Delight Sargent, second wife of Elias, and the children moved back East they lost annuities and tribal rights.
William received an education at the Gunnery. He lived for a time with his maternal grandmother, Eleanor Johnson Gold of Cornwall, CT.
Around 1844 when William was 14 years of age he lived in Philadelphia, PA engraving with one of his cousins. He enjoyed the business he was in. He spent time between Washington, CT and Philadelphia, PA as he states in a letter dated 1848 to his Uncle Stand Watie. He was doing well in the engraving business but blamed poor eyesight and health for not presuing the business. I believe it was his hearts desire to go back to his home in the Cherokee Nation.
During the period of time between April 26, 1848 when William was living in Philadelphia and March 13, 1850 he has moved to Ft. Smith, Arkansas. He's listed on the 1851 Drennen Roll as living alone. The time between his arrival in the Cherokee Nation West and his marriage to Caroline he had a relationship with Eleanor "Ellen" Reese. Ellen was his first cousin once removed. This union produced one child, Emma Inez. Emma was my great great grandmother.
He married in 1853 in Park Hill, Indian Territory (now Cherokee Co., OK) Caroline Matilda Rogers Fields, daughter of Thomas Fields and Nannie Rogers Downing. Caroline was educated at Dwight Mission School. They were the parents of Margaret, Elias Cornelius (1854-1896), Richard Fields (1896), Thomas (1858-1862), Eleanor Margaret (1861), Henry French (1863-1885), Francis "Frank" Josiah (1866), and Caroline Mary (1872-1895).
References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_R._Gold_Boudinot
Gaul, Theresa Strouth, Ed. To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
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William Penn Boudinot's Timeline
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February 4, 1830
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Cherokee Tribe, Native American
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1852
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1854
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June 7, 1856
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1858
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March 8, 1862
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1863
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August 20, 1866
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Arkansas, United States
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| 1873 |
January 8, 1873
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Cherokee Nation, IT
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