Samuel Moniac, Chief Takkes-Hadjo

Moniac, Sam (Sam McNac), frontiersman (c. 1758-1837). Sam Moniac, whose name frequently appeared in variations, was a son Of William Maniac, a Hollander Who had reached the Creek nation in Alabama in 1756 from Natchez on the Mississippi. William the trusted interpreter of Alexander McGillivray who April 4. 1787, sadly reported William's death from "a dry Belly Ache," adding that he was "a Just & faithfull man... I Shall never have Such another again." Yet Sam Moniac to a point filled his father's role with McGillivray, first as a packhorse man as McGillivray reported in August of 1788, then as interpreter since Sam Moniac was half Creek and married to a sister of William Weatherford. Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: G-O By Dan L. Thrapp

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I will now give you some of the reasons which obtained with Weatherford to cause him to join the hostiles against the Americans. Himself and Sam Moniac (his brother-in-law, who was married to Weatherford’s sister Elizabeth) had gone to (Chickasahay ??) with a drove of beef cattle and when they returned they found the warriors in council where they had decided to join the British. They had been influenced to take this course by Tecumshe and his prophet, Seekaboo who was a ( naspieanatta ??) chief, who spoke good English. (I spell Tecumpsee as the Indians pronounced it, Tecumshe).

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Samuel was approached by Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins to go with a group of men to capture William Augustus Bowles, "a bizarre character". A Maryland Tory who resigned his British Army commission in Pensacola in 1778 to live among the Creeks, Bowles proclaimed himself "Director General" of the Creeks, and contended against Alexander McGillivray and others for Creek influence. Bowles travelled with sixty bodyguards, and despite a $4,500 reward put up by Vicente Folch, the Spanish Governor at Pensacola, "no Indian attempted to win the award" until Moniac and his group did. They traced Bowles to an Indian Council in May of 1803 at Hickory Ground. When Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins announced he had come to arrest Bowles, the Bowles supporters showed signs of resistance.

Nevertheless, Hawkins told Red Eagle and Sam Moniac to arrest Bowles, and "to the sound of scores of rifles clicking to the cocked position", Moniac and Red Eagle, with reckless courage, seized Bowles, spirited him out of the most sacred spot in Indian territory, and put him in a pirogue and paddled down the Alabama River. Four nights later, camping on an island near Salem, Bowles stole the boat and escaped, but they caught him in the cane across the River, took him to Pensacola and delivered Bowles to Spanish Governor Folch, who handed over the $4,500 reward, and put Bowles on a succession of ships which landed him in New Orleans and on to Cuba, where he died in a military hospital.

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