Terrapinhead "the Crawler" Conrad

Terrapinhead was a Cherokee man

Biography

Terrapinhead (Conrad) was the son of two Cherokees, Gunrod and his wife Onai or Ali. Very little is known about him. He was born about 1795 in the Cherokee Nation. The Moravian missionaries mentioned a man named "The Crawler," the brother of Youngwolf and Rattling Gourd. [1]

Starr does not name his wife, but says that he was the father of four children, John, Jennie, and James Terrapin and Thomas Fox Conrad. [2] "Terrapinhead" appears in the records of the Cherokee Agency in 1822 as a signer of a resolution of the Cherokee Council. [3] He and his family are listed on the 1835 Cherokee census living on Chickamauga Creek (now Georgia). The family was Removed to Indian Territory, but they are not found on the 1851 census so Terrapinhead had apparently died by then.

Sources

1. ↑ McClintock, Rowena, ed. The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2010. Dec. 3, 1813, p. 101
2. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 476
3. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee 1801-1835. 23 October, 1822. images at Fold 3.

See also:
Eastern Cherokee application #37671, Callie Painter – wife of Thomas Fox Conrad
and
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHLJ-B4J

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Conrad-1329

Research Notes

• Terrapinhead Conrad Starr's Notes Vol. I., page 287 "F837- Terrapinhead Conrad's three oldest children were known as John, Jennie, and James Terrapin, but the fourth, who was a full brother to the preceding was never known by any name other than Thomas Fox Conrad."
• Moravian Journals, 5/19/1814; the journals mention a brother of Youngwolf, Rattling Goard, and the Hair named "the Crawler" who is probably Terrapinhead. Terrapin = Turtle = Crawler. This Crawler died in 1814 while marching to the Creek War

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TERRAPINHEAD CONRAD (GUNROD5, JENNIE4ANI'-WA'YA, OCONOSTOTA3, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born Abt. 1796.
Notes for TERRAPINHEAD CONRAD:

• Starr does not list a Conrad 1-4 for Terrapinhead Conrad although he is mentioned in Starr's notes and there is a Conrad 1-5-x family group.
• Moravian Journals, 5/19/1814; the journals mention a brother of Youngwolf, Rattling Goard, and the Hair named "the Crawler" who is probably Terrapinhead.[Terrapin = Turtle = Crawler?]This Crawler died in 1814 while marching to the Creek War, he caught a bad cold and died.
• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
• Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Onai)
• Moravian Journals: May 19, 1814, See notes

Children of TERRAPINHEAD CONRAD are:
498. i. JOHN7 TERRAPINHEAD, b. Abt. 1834.
499. ii. JENNIE TERRAPIN CONRAD, b. Abt. 1836.

	iii.	 	JAMES TERRAPIN, b. Abt. 1838.

500. iv. THOMAS FOX CONRAD, b. 1840.

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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