If so, login to add it. While residing in this romantic region, among the natives, Daniel Ross, originally from Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and left an orphan in Baltimore soon after peace was declared with Great Britain, had accompanied a Mr. Mayberry to Hawkins County, Tennessee, and came down the river in a flat-boat built by himself for trading purposes. The Creeks were within twenty-five miles. He has been twice married. McIntosh in alarm mounted his steed and rode eighty miles, killing two horses, it is said, in a single day. Start a free family tree online and well do the searching for you. Visiting London when a youth of nineteen years, he met a countryman who was coming to America, and catching the spirit of adventure, he joined him, landing in Charleston, S. C., in 1766. In January 1827, Pathkiller, the Cherokee's principal chief, and Charles R. Hicks, Ross's mentor, both died. The terrible battle at Horseshoe, February 27th, 1814, which left the bodies of nine hundred Creeks on the field, was followed by a treaty of peace, at Fort Jackson, with the friendly Creeks, securing a large territory to indemnify the United States. In a few months Mr. Meigs died, and Lewis Ross became partner in his place. Creeks. [1] His petitions to President Andrew Jackson, under whom he had fought during the Creek War (181314), went unheeded, and in May 1830 the Indian Removal Act forced the tribes, under military duress, to exchange their traditional lands for unknown western prairie. The Council selected Ross because they perceived him to have the diplomatic skill necessary to rebuff US requests to cede Cherokee lands. He married Elizabeth Quatie Brown in 1813, in Cherokee, Alabama, United States. Born in Alabama on October 3 1790. General Jackson was against the Cherokee claim, and affirmed that he would grant the Chickasaws their entire claim. In Browns Valley, Ross might have been seen at dead of night, Deputy Agent Williams keeping sentry at the tent-door, writing by torchlight his dispatches to General Jackson. Ross served as clerk to Pathkiller and Hicks, where he worked on all financial and political matters of the nation. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each persons profile. Upon reaching the place of encampment, they found only the relics of a deadly fight, in which General Coffee, under Jackson, had routed the. In this crisis of affairs it was proposed at Washington to form a new treaty, the principal feature of which was the surrender of territory sufficient in extent and value to be an equivalent for all demands past and to come; disposing thus finally of the treaty of 1817.