Nathan Wolf Hicks

ELSEY SHOREY (daughter of William Shorey, Jr.) (Source: C002.), b. Abt. 1794; m. NATHAN WOLF HICKS (Source: Moravian Records, Children of Springplace, 1823, 97. Charles Hicks (Nath. Hicks s.) and (Ch. R.H. grd.s.).); b. 1794; d. Abt. 1838.

More About ELSEY SHOREY: Education: July 23, 1809, Spring Place Mission School

Notes for NATHAN WOLF HICKS: Journal of the Mission at Spring Place [GA], July 1821 to December 1822, pg 391, July 22, 1822; "The Brethren Schmidt and Proske went on a visit to Brother Charles R Hicks. On the other side of Chajahetta creek, we met six wolves that did not run off until we came up close to them. Towards evening arrived at Nathan Hicks', son of Brother Charles, where we found a hospitable night's lodging. Next morning (23d) proceeded to his father's, whom we found in good health and busily engaged. Col Meigs had arrived the day before, with the customary annuities for the Indians, and with him, a number of persons from Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, who produced the claims they had against the nation. We therefore scarcely found an opportunity of saluting our Brother Hicks, until evening, when the company dispersed. 24th, We attained the object of our visit, in administering the Lord's supper to him, from the enjoyment of which he had been debarred a great while on account of his sore leg. On this occasion his wife Anne Felicitas was presant as a candidate for the ordinance. From him and Elsy, his daughter-in-law, we received the following particulars..."

More About NATHAN WOLF HICKS: Education: Bet. 1806 - 1807, Gideon Blackburn's School (age 12)

Blackburn School

From “ Gideon Blackburn (1772-1838)” in the Tennessee Encyclopedia. Written by David A. Nichols. link Blackburn’s school, on the Hiwassee River near present-day Charleston, opened in the spring of 1804; a second school, the Blackburn Mission, opened in 1805. Intended to instill Christian religious precepts and “civilized” standards of behavior, the curriculum emphasized lessons in dress and comportment as well as instruction in reading, math, music, and the catechism. Neither school used interpreters and thus had only limited appeal for non-English-speaking Cherokees. In 1804 and 1805 most of the one hundred or more students were bicultural Cherokee boys seeking to improve their English and gain knowledge of the “three Rs” before entering careers as traders or shopkeepers.

Blackburn confined his activities to fundraising and holding biennial public academic exercises. As part of his “civilizing” mission, however, he urged the Cherokee National Council to adopt laws respecting patrilineal inheritance, private property, solemnized marriage, and other Anglo-American cultural and legal institutions. He became a staunch ally of the powerful acculturationist chief Doublehead, to whom he offered sanctuary shortly before Cherokee nationalists assassinated him in 1807. Deeply shaken by the execution, Blackburn moved the Hiwassee school to safer ground at the abandoned Tellico blockhouse.

In the spring of 1809 the Creeks implicated Blackburn, his brother Samuel, and the Cherokee chiefs John McIntosh and The Ridge in a scheme to illegally ship whiskey through Creek territory to Mobile. The resulting scandal severely damaged Blackburn’s reputation and contributed to a brief period of anti-mission sentiment among the Cherokees. In 1810 the minister closed both schools and moved his family to Middle Tennessee.

Origins

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Hicks “ Nancy Anna Felicitas Broom and Chief Charles Hicks had Elsie[1] (1760 - 1826), Nathan Wolf 1795, Elijah 1797, Elizabeth (Betsy) 1797, Sarah Elizabeth 1798, Jesse Hicks 1801, Edward, and Leonard Looney 1804. Son, Elijah, married Margaret Ross, half sister of Chief John Ross. Son, Nathan, married Elsy (Alice) Shorey.”

References

• Bass, Dorothy C. “Gideon Blackburn's Mission to the Cherokees: Christianization and Civilization.” Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985), vol. 52, no. 3, 1974, pp. 203–226. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23327635. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
• McLoughlin, William G. “Parson Blackburn's Whiskey and the Cherokee Indian Schools, 1809-1810.” Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985), vol. 57, no. 4, 1979, pp. 427–445. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23328144. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.
• https://www.ancestry.com.au/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=212&p=surn...
• Brown, John P. Old Frontiers: The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West, 1838 . (Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1938 / Arno Press Reprint, New York, 1971).
• Hicks, Charles R., Memoirs of Charles Renatus (United Bretherin (Moravian) Archives, Winston-Salem, NC).
• McClinton, Rowena. The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, 1805-1821. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, 2 volumes).
• McClinton, Rowena Ruff. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Charles Hicks," Journal of Cherokee Studies 17 (1996): 16-27).
• Moulton, Gary E.(editor), The Papers of Chief John Ross,(Norman, OK, University Of Oklahoma Press, 1985), Vol. I.
• William G. McLoughlin|McLoughlin, William G., Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
• Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People. (New York: Macmillan Company, 1970).

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NATHAN WOLF HICKS (CHARLES RENATUS6, NA-YE-HI5CONRAD, JENNIE4ANI'-WA'YA, OCONOSTOTA3, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born 1794, and died Abt. 1838.
He married ELSEY SHOREY, daughter of WILLIAM SHOREY, JR. She was born Abt. 1794.

• Journal of the Mission at Spring Place [GA], July 1821 to December 1822, pg 391, July 22, 1822; "The Brethren Schmidt and Proske went on a visit to Brother Charles R Hicks.On the other side of Chajahetta creek, we met six wolves that did not run off until we came up close to them.Towards evening arrived at Nathan Hicks', son of Brother Charles, where we found a hospitable night's lodging.Next morning (23d) proceeded to his father's, whom we found in good health and busily engaged.Col Meigs had arrived the day before, with the customary annuities for the Indians, and with him, a number of persons from Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, who produced the claims they had against the nation.We therefore scarcely found an opportunity of saluting our Brother Hicks, until evening, when the company dispersed.24th, We attained the object of our visit, in administering the Lord's supper to him, from the enjoyment of which he had been debarred a great while on account of his sore leg.On this occasion his wife Anne Felicitas was presant as a candidate for the ordinance.From him and Elsy, his daughter-in-law, we received the following particulars..."
• Education: Bet. 1806 - 1807, Gideon Blackburn's School (age 12)

More About ELSEY SHOREY:

• Education: July 23, 1809, Spring Place Mission School

Children of NATHAN HICKS and ELSEY SHOREY are:

	i.	 	WILLIAM SHOREY8 HICKS, b. June 13, 1813, Chickamauga Dist, CNE [GA].

• RG75, E247, A400, Jan 1837, Ordered by the Commissioners that no further payments be made to Wm Hicks on account of the above valuations, but that the amount due thereon be applied to the payment of the just debts of his father, Nathan Hicks, who upon satisfactory proof is adjudged to be the rightful owner of said valuation.That valuation in the name of William Hicks having been obtained by fraud.[was Nathan protecting his son's valuation from the creditors who already got a good portion of the disbursement?]
• Detachment: March 01, 1837, 37-b Dr Young/Maj Ridge (by water) himself & 6 slaves
• Education: July 05, 1819, Spring Place Mission School
• RG75, E247 Reg of Pmts: January 1837, A400: Valuation $2,585.20, Adj'd to $1,139.00 (see notes)

	ii.	 	CHARLES EDWARD HICKS, b. 1816.

• Moravian Records; Children of Springplace, 1823: 97.Charles Hicks (Nath. Hicks s.) and (Ch. R.H. grd.s.)
• Baptism: April 05, 1822, at Spring Place Mission by Brother Schmidt as Charles Edward Hicks
• Detachment: March 01, 1837, 37-b Dr Young/Maj Ridge (by water) listed as Creek
• Education: April 13, 1823, Spring Place Mission School

	iii.	 	JOHN HICKS, b. Abt. 1820.

	iv.	 	NANCY JANE HICKS, b. Abt. 1822.

	v.	 	ELIZABETH HICKS, b. Abt. 1824.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Amatoya Moytoy” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0021...