"Ludovic Grant, who was said to have been a Scotchman, in a statement recorded on page 301 of the Charlestown, South Carolina probate court in the book of '1754-1758' in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, says 'It is about thirty years since I went into the Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since' 'I speak their language'. He married a full blood woman of the Long Hair clan. He was among the Cherokees at the same time that Christian Priber and James Adair was in the nation. Grant's half breed daughter married William Emory, an Englishman." Old Cherokee Families... Page 466, Note A1.
Scottish-Cherokee Patriarch SIR LUDOVIC GRANT, 2nd BARONET OF DALVEY The Scottish trader, who married a fullblood Cherokee woman, has descendants today numbering between 50,000 and 100,000, a fourth to half of the registered Cherokees today. The Oukah grew up thinking that the MacDonald and Ross Scottish fam ilies were his finest heritage, and indeed they are Scottish clans beyond compare. But, in doing the research of his g-g-grandmother a few years ago, the Elizabeth Pack Fields who married Dayunita, he came to a great appreciation of the descendants Some books say that there was a Ludovic Grant of Scotland, a baronet, who was captured in the Jacobite Rebellions (trying to restore the descendants of James VII of Scotland to the British throne). His lands were confiscated and his title revo ked. The Oukah's recent research (remember you read it here first!) reveals that our Cherokee ancestor was not descended, from a Scottish baronet, but he WAS HIMSELF that Baronet of Scotland (2nd Baronet of Dalvey). It seems that he and his Sco According to the "Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775", by David Dobson, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1983, it says of Ludovic Grant: Jacobite captured at Preston. Sent from Liverpool to South Carolin Some years later we find Ludovic Grant in the Cherokee Nation, where he established a trading post and married a full-blood Cherokee. They had one daughter, Mary. Mary had three daughters by the trader, William Emory, named Mary Emory, Elizabe Mary married Ezekiel Buffington and produced many notable Cherokee men, including Principal Chief Thomas Mitchell Buffington, 1899-1903. Elizabeth married John Rogers "White Trader" and her descendants include Tiana Rogers (wife of Sam Houston), the beloved Will Rogers, and William Charles Rogers, Principal Chief 1903-1917. Susannah Emory married three times. One husband was John Stuart, the British Superintendent of the Southern Territory. Another was Joseph Martin, the only person in history who was the Brigadier General of both Virginia and South Carolina. Ano Ludovic Grant, being of good family and well educated, became the agent and correspondent of the Governors of South Carolina. His letters, informing the governors of the happenings and situations within the Cherokee Nation, are published in th When a strange Scottish baronet named Sir Alexander Cumming visited the Cherokee Nation in 1729-1730, he was met on his second day inside the nation by a fellow Scotsman, Ludovic Grant, who was to be his interpreter. The strange happenings of that visit are duly recorded, along with the strange erratic behavior of Sir Alexander Cumming. It was during that visit that Sir Alexander suggested that King Moytoy of the capital city of refuge, Echota, be given the English title of "Emperor" Sir Alexander later took seven Cherokee men with him to England where the first treaty between the Cherokees and a foreign nation was made in April, 1730. Sir Alexander's American crimes caught up with him, however, and he spent most of his l In all this time, and in all these happenings, Ludovic Grant did not reveal that he was (or had been) a Baronet of Scotland, himself. Was he actually behind the visit of Sir Alexander Cumming? Did he suggest the "Emperor" title for the Chero Did Ludovic Grant and Sir Alexander Cumming know each other before Cummings strange visit? Were they related? You see, the present Oukah's research has also uncovered the fact that Sir Ludovic Grant's grandmother was Agnes Cumming. We have created a 11x17 genealogical chart of Sir Ludovic Grant, from whom the present Oukah is descended in several lines. If any of the other descendants would like a copy of this chart, which lists the MAJOR Cherokee descendants of note, th Lee MacDonald
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Transported Jacobite Rebels, 1716 Publication: Family Tree Maker, CD210 NGS Quarterly, Volumes 1-85, Disk 2, Volume 64 Text: Page 29
Note: This book is a reprint of some chapters from Emmet Starr's book entitled History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folklore, Oklahoma City: 1921. (HBLL call # E 99 .C5S8 1969)
J.J. Hill compiled the index and put together the reprint edition.