Clarinda Anderson

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Clarinda was captured at age 12 in the last Kentucky Indian raid at Morgan's Station.
Mr. Samuel Graham & Mr. David Rice having come into the Cherokee Agency to endeavor to obtain the liberation of a woman named Clarinda Ellington now the wife of a Cherokee man, she having been when a small child taken as a prisoner by the Shawnees. This Cherokee man named Tuskingo or Shoeboots being brought before the Agent with the said Clarinda & their three children & questions being first put to the woman. Do you wish to return to your friends in Kentucky? Answered Yes, If I can carry my Children. And the following question being put to the Cherokee man. Are you willing to let Clarinda Ellington the woman you call your wife go with her Children to see her friends in Kentucky? Answered No, If my children are taken away I shall look on it the same as if they were dead. And the said Clarinda therefore declines going to see her friends as she cannot leave her children. The said Tuskingo says that he saved her life at the time she was taken, & therefore thinks he has a right to keep her as his wife. It appears that Tuskingo is a man of very considerable property. October 19th 1803. SouthWest Point. Return J. Meigs.