“Sakinney”, daughter of Ostenaco

As his memoirs attest, Timberlake endured many hardships & difficulties during his brief period of public service. He died embittered & impoverished on September 30, 1765. His wife had been a teenager when they married only two years before. In 1786-87, his widow now using the name Helen Theresa Timberlake Ostenaco, petitioned the government for assistance in securing passage to North America, citing her late husband's service to the crown. Her petition was supported by Lord Amherst & others.

The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and ... By Henry Timberlake link

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Stine, a Cherokee Nation citizen, said the book about his grandfather’s memoirs mentions the son-in-law of Chief Ostenaco. The son-in-law mentioned was likely Lt. Timberlake, who married Ostenaco’s daughter Sageni.

Henry and Sageni were the parents of Richard Timberlake, who continued the Timberlake lineage after his father died in England on Sept. 30, 1765, after attempting to help a Cherokee delegation get an audience with King George III to discuss white settlers on Cherokee land.

http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/index/4263

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Henry Timberlake had one child, a son, Richard Timberlake, by one of Ostenaco's daughters, Sakinney. In his old age, Timberlake's friend Ostenaco lived in retirement with his grandson, Richard.

Born in Cherokee nation East. Not to be confused with Helen Theresa, Henry Timberlake’s English wife.

From

Descendants of Judd's Friend

Generation No. 2

2.HELENA THERESA2 U-S-TE-NA-KA (JUDD'S FRIEND1) was born Abt. 1740, and died Aft. 1786.She married RICHARD HENRY TIMBERLAKE, LT.He was born Abt. 1730.

Notes for HELENA THERESA U-S-TE-NA-KA:

Fol 33723 Jan 1787, Dartmouth Street, Westminster.Memorial from Helena Theresa Timberlake Ostenaco to Lords of Treasury.Timberlake's widow requests assistance.4p.
Source: page 460 of A Guide to Cherokee Documents in Foreign Archives By William L. Anderson, James Allen Lewis

Child of HELENA U-S-TE-NA-KA and RICHARD TIMBERLAKE is:

1. RICHARD3 TIMBERLAKE I, b. Abt. 1760, CNE.

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From Descendants of Smallpox Conjurer of Tellico

HELEN THERESA TIMBERLAKE OSTENACO3 SOKINNEY. She married (1) JUNALUSKA DROWNING BEAR. She married (2) HENRY TIMBERLAKE, son of Francis Timberlake and Sarah Austin, in 1763. He was born about 1730 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. He died on 30 Sep 1765 in England.

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