Oo-na-du-to ‘Bushyhead’

Not the same as Oo-na-du-to John ‘Bushyhead’

Curator note; there are unconfirmed sources that say that Captain John Stuart and his 1/8 Native wife Susanna Emory had a son and namesake “Bushyhead”, but there is no corroboration of this birth. If born, this person has been so far lost to history.

Extracted from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stuart-7934

According to Emmet Starr, a Cherokee woman, Susannah Emory, and British Indian Agent John Stuart were the parents of a son known as "Bushyhead”:

Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 577. Digitized edition at < Archive.Org >

[John Stuart] "married Susannah Emory a quarterblood Cherokee and was known on account of his mop of hair as Oo-no-dut or Bushyhead. He and Susannah had one son, who never had any other name than Oo-no-dut and from that time forward the Stuarts in the Cherokee Nation and invariably been known as Bushyhead."

Susannah Emory's birth year is unknown, but likely between 1748-1752. John Stuart was in the Cherokee Nation between 1755 and 1776. If they had a child he could have been born no earlier that 1765 and no later than 1776.

Starr appears to have erred in stating that this son was the father of a man known as John Bushyhead, a full-blood Cherokee born about 1780.