Big Halfbreed ‘Will’ Halfbreed

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Big Halfbreed was a Cherokee man

Biography

Big Halfbreed was a Cherokee chief probably born in the 1740's. [1] He lived near Ustinali and had three wives, a woman called Gu u li si (by Starr), [2] or Qualiuka (by the Moravians, who baptized her "Hannah") [3]. His second (concurrent) wife was her younger sister named Chickatuata. According to the Moravians Big Halfbreed took a third wife, a young Creek woman in his old age. [4] He fathered several children: Lydia, Pigeon, Chinosa, Susannah, Jennie, Elizabeth, and Jesse. [5].

Although Big Halfbreed apparently had a good relationship with the Moravians from their arrival in the Cherokee Nation, including enrolling his grandson George HIcks in their school in 1805 [6] when his wife decided to convert to Christianity he did not approve. The Moravians wrote, "When she made the decision to convert, her husband, named Big Halfbreed, who is a Chief in the Nation, and to whom she had already been married for more than 50 years, became very upset about this and chased her out of the house. He took her back after awhile, but when he realized she had not changed her mind he threw her out of the house again and kicked her in anger. [7] His date of death is uncertain, but he was not alive in 1835 since he does not appear on the census of that year. [8]

Sources

1. ↑ The Moravian missionaries estimated that he and his wife were about 80 in 1827. Crews & Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK.
2. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 448
3. ↑ Crews & Starbuck, Moravians Vol. 7 p. 3601.
4. ↑ Crews & Starbuck, Moravians Vol. 7, p. 3515-16
5. ↑ Starr, History p. 448
6. ↑ McClinton, Rowena, ed. The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2007. Vol 1. p. 45
7. ↑ Crews & Starbuck, Moravians Vol. 7, p. 3596
8. ↑ Tyner, James. Those Who Cried. Transcript of 1835 Cherokee census. Chi-ga-u, Inc. Norman, OK. 1974.

See also
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L8R9-WKV

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