Big Rattlinggourd Watts

Chief John "Young Tassel" Watts was elected Chief of the Chickamauga Cherokee after the death of Dragging Canoe on March 1, 1792. As with most other early Cherokee men, his wife or wives are unknown.

He may have been married to a woman named Wurtagua, b 1760.

He may have been the father of men called Big Rattlinggourd and Hard Mush.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Watts-3170

Big Rattlinggourd was Cherokee.

Almost nothing is known of the Cherokee man known as "Big Rattlinggourd," the son of Chief John Watts. He lived at the end of the 18th century. [1] "

Sources

1. Martini, Don. Who was who among the southern Indians, A genealogical notebook, 1698-1907. "Watts, John - Cherokee Chief, was born in 1753, the son of Trader John Watts. Also known as Kettiegesta, he was for many years a leading chief of the warlike Chickamauga faction of Cherokees that waged war on the American Frontier.,,, He was a brother to Unacata and to a Cherokee killed at Boyd's Creek, and was the father of John Watts, Big Rattlinggourd, and perhaps Hard Mush (Gatunuali).