Quatie Benge

Quatie was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Quatie Conrad was born about 1790 in the Cherokee Nation, the daughter of two Cherokees, Gunrod and his wife Onai, or Ali. She was the sister of Rattlinggourd, Hair, Youngwolf, and Terrapinhead. Very little is known about her other than the names of her husbands and children. [1]The Moravian missionaries mentioned her brothers multiple times, but made no mention of Quatie. She had at least eight children by three different men. Starr records her first husband as “Alexander” Brown, their child as John Lucien Brown, but testimony from Eastern Cherokee applications and other records list John’s father as “James” Brown, possibly the James who was the husband of Jennie Vann. [2] The Moravians did record that Jennie left her husband because he had been unfaithful.

Quatie and Archibald Fields were the parents of Mary, George, Jennie, John, Louisa, and Martha. [3]

Quatie and John Benge were the parents of Anderson Benge. [4]

Quatie’s date and place of death are unknown. All of her living children went to Indian Territory. Both James Brown and John Benge were conductors of detachments on the Trail of Tears. [5] Quatie does not appear on the any of the 1851 Cherokee censuses, so she had apparently died by then.

Research Notes

• Unsourced Find-a-Grave memorial states that Quatie died in Arkansas 2/1/1839 on the Trail of Tears. [6]
• Not the same as Quatie Brown
• Not the wife of Alexander Brown

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 426
2. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application # 19194, Julia Chaney, granddaughter of John Brown. images at Fold3.
3. ↑ Starr, History, pp. 322-323
4. ↑ Starr, History, p. 427
5. ↑ Starr, History, p. 103
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72959134/quatsis-elizabeth-brown: accessed 13 October 2022), memorial page for Quatsis Elizabeth Conrad Brown (1788–1 Feb 1839), Find a Grave Memorial ID 72959134, ; Maintained by SSBJღ (contributor 46954568) Lost at War, who reports a Died on Forced Trail of Tears March.

See also:
Genealogy of Old and New Cherokee Indian Families by George Morrison Bell. 1972 lc#78-189676 copy at Muskogee , OK pub.lib. Publication: (Bartlesville, OK: , 1972).

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Conrad-1330
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QUATIE CONRAD (GUNROD5, JENNIE4ANI'-WA'YA, OCONOSTOTA3, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born Abt. 1790.
She married (1) ALEXANDER BROWN I Bef. 1812. He was born Abt. 1780.
She married (2) ARCHIBALD FIELDS Bef. 1816, son of GEORGE FIELDS and JENNIE BROWN. He was born 1796, and died Bet. 1842 - 1851.
She married (3) JOHN BENGE, CHIEF Bef. 1820, son of ROBERT BENGE. He was born 1788, and died Aft. 1853.
Notes for QUATIE CONRAD:
Grant 1-1-3-3-4-x family group is six children by Quatie and Archibald Fields.
The Conrad 1-4-x group for the same family is just one child, Jennie.

• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
• Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Onai)

More About ARCHIBALD FIELDS:

• 1835 Census roll: Covewhulla Creek, GA, 2m18-, 2m18+, 4f16-, 1f16+
• Detachment: November 06, 1838, 38-11 Taylor/W S Adair; as Interpreter
• Education 1: Bet. 1806 - 1807, Gideon Blackburn's School (age 9)
• Education 2: November 06, 1805, Spring Place Mission School [parents listed are George Fields & Jenny Brown]

More About JOHN BENGE, CHIEF:

• 1835 Census roll: Lookout Cr, GA, 4m18-, 2m18+, 2f16-, 2f16+
• 1835 Smith Resolution: Chickamauga, voted Nay; anti-treaty
• Detachment: October 01, 1838, 38-04 John Benge/G C Lowrey; as Conductor, 2m-10 1f-10 2m-15 0f-15 4m-50 3f-50 0m50+ 1f50+ I=13 S=4
• Military service: Bet. 1813 - 1814, LT in Morgan's Cherokee Rgt, Cpt McLemore's Co
• Residence 1: 1822, Wills Town, AL
• Residence 2: 1851, Sequoyah Dist
• RG75, E545 Reg of BLW: February 06, 1853, BLW# 163941 (age 64)

Child of QUATIE CONRAD and ALEXANDER BROWN is:
483. i. JOHN LUCIEN7 BROWN, b. September 20, 1812; d. April 12, 1884.

Children of QUATIE CONRAD and ARCHIBALD FIELDS are:

	ii.	 	MARY7 FIELDS, b. Abt. 1816; d. March 1839.

484. iii. GEORGE WASHINGTON FIELDS, SR, b. Abt. 1817; d. August 1848.
485. iv. JENNIE FIELDS, b. Abt. 1818.

	v.	 	JOHN FIELDS, b. Abt. 1819.

	More About JOHN FIELDS:

• Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Onai)

486. vi. LOUISA FIELDS, b. September 1821; d. May 06, 1893.

	vii.	 	MARTHA FIELDS, b. Abt. 1822; m. SAMUEL MCDANIEL TAYLOR; b. 1818; d. Bet. 1880 - 1902.

	More About MARTHA FIELDS:

• 1851 Drennan roll: Illinois, 102
• Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Onai)
• Starr's Notes: H289

	More About SAMUEL MCDANIEL TAYLOR:

• 1880 Census [CN]: Canadian, 1400

Child of QUATIE CONRAD and JOHN BENGE is:
487. viii. ANDERSON7 BENGE, SR, b. 1820, CNE; d. January 04, 1868.

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...
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