Betty, daughter of Kittakiska

Not the same as Betsy, wife of Hanging Maw

Biography

From “Attack on the People at the Hanging Maw's - Papers of the War Department” at a gathering of Chiefs in Coyatee at Hanging Maw's, Coyatee, (Present day Loudon County, Tennessee)

... Betty; daughter of Kittakiska; William Rosebury; Nancy Ward; white people; Hanging Maw's family; Governor Blount; ... link
Note: Names “daughter of Kittakiska” listed after “Betty, wife of Hanging Maw”

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From http://civilwarthosesurnames.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-was-murder-178...

Cherokee Nation, Major King & Daniel Carmichael’s report of June 12, 1793.

At the appearance of day light this morning, Captain John Beard, with his company of mounted infantry, to our great surprise made an attack on the Indians at the Hanging Maw’s. They have killed Scantee, Fool Charley, the Hanging Maw’s wife, Betty, the daughter of Kittakiska, and we believe eight or nine others, among them William Rosebury, a white man, the Hanging Maw shot through the arm, Betty, the daughter of Nancy Ward, wounded. The fire of this inhuman party seemed to be directed at the whitePeople who were there as much as at the Indians therefore, we made our escape through it as quick as possible, and cannot give a minute account of the whole of the damage. By hard pleading, we got them to spare the rest of the Hanging Maw’s family, and his house from being burnt.

Citations

• American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and ..., Volume 2; Volume 7. United States. Congress link
• Lowrie, Walter and St. Clair Clarke, Matthew, eds. American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Vol. IV, Indian Affairs. 38 Vols. Washington, DC: Gales and Seaton, 1832
• Civil and Political History of Tennessee By John Haywood. Page 299. link
• Tennessee Historical Magazine, Volume 4, Page 206 link
• Massacre at Cavett's Station: Frontier Tennessee during the Cherokee Wars By Charles H. Faulkner. Page 47. link
• Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 1 edited by Frederick Webb Hodge Page 356 link “Coyatee. A former Cherokee settlement on Little Tennessee r., about 10 m. below the Tellico, about the present Coytee, Loudon Co., Tenn. It was the scene of the treaty of Coyatee in 1786 between commissioners representing the state of Franklin, as Tennessee was then called, and the chiefs of the Overhill towns.— Moonev in 19th Rep. B. A. K., 63, 513, 1900.”

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This does not look correct.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZFH-T25

• Name: Elizabeth or Betsy Walker (born Kitigista)
• Birth: 1742 [before father was born]
• Marriage: 1760

Parents

• Kitegista Moytoy [he did not have a surname Moytoy]
• Mary Moytoy (born Tunbridge) [Tunbridge had no children] Husband:
• John or Chief Walker Children:
• Elias Walker
• Maj. John Walker
• David C Walker

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i. BETTY4 KITEGISTA, d. June 12, 1793.

Notes for BETTY KITEGISTA:

This Betty was NOT the wife of Hanging Maw. She was one of the women killed when Hanging Maw and his family were attacked, but the records of the Moravians show that Hanging Maw's widow was alive and well in 1799.

(Source: John P Brown, Old Frontiers, (Reprint edition, 1971, by Arno Press, Inc), 386.), b. c 1738; d. June 12, 1793.

Notes for BETTY KITEGISTA:

Old Frontiers, John P Brown, pg 386; [June 12, 1793, at a gathering of Chiefs in Coyatee at Hanging Maw's] ... Scantee, Fool Charlie and Betty, a daughter of Kitegista, were killed. . .

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/d/Phyllis-C-Mcdaniel...

Kitegista, Betty

Birth : ABT 1738 Cherokee Nation-East

Death : 12 JUN 1793

Gender: Female

Parents:

   Father: Kitegista,

   Mother: Usteenokobagan, 

Spouse:

Maw, Hanging

Birth : Cherokee Nation-East

Gender: Male

http://www.redeaglejw.net/dat646.htm#0

From James Hicks:

Cherokee Myths, pg 74, "...Cap John Beard attacks... killing several including the wife of Hanging Maw."

Old Frontiers, John P Brown, pg 386; [June 12, 1793, at a gathering of Chiefs in Coyatee at Hanging Maw's]... Scantee, Fool Charlie and Betty, a daughter of Kitegista, were killed. [Hanging Maw's widow, Betsy, was still alive in 1799, and thus not the same person as Betsy Kitegusta.]

More About BETSY:

Blood: 1/2 Cherokee, 1/2 Algonquin(?)

Clan: Ani'-Wa'ya = Wolf Clan (Quatsy)