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Nancy Timberlake (Brown) was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Nancy was born about 1780 in the Cherokee Nation (East) . According to the Moravian missionaries her parents were an Irishman named Robert Brown and his Cherokee wife. [1] She had at least three husbands, James Vann, Richard Fields, and Richard Timberlake. [2] She was the mother of two children by Vann, Mary, and Joseph. [3] She had four children, Lucy, James, Delilah, and Isabel with Fields,.[4] and one son, Charles, with Timberlake. She appears on the 1835 census of Cherokee in the east [5] and the 1851 Cherokee census in Indian Territory [6] as Nancy Timberlake. She passed away after 1851. (Curator dvb; some sources say May 6 1851 - Lexington, Lexington, South Carolina, United States)

Sources

1. Crews and Starbuck, eds. "Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees." Cherokee National Press, Tahlequah, OK. Vol. 3, 2011. p. 1148
2. Starr, Emmet. "History of the Cherokee Nation," Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK, 1993 p. 306. Digitized edition at Starr
3. Crews & Starbuck, Moravians, Vol. 3. p. 1173
4. Starr, History, p. 309.
5. 1835 Cherokee Census, transcription published by the Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill, OK. 2002. Original records: National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm publication T496, Census Roll, 1835, of Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi with Index. p 2
6. "Drennan Roll" Flint District, #352, Drennen Roll of “Emigrant Cherokee,” 1851. Series 7RA-01. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas. images available on Ancestry.com, frame 234
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Source: S42 Media: Book (Authored) Genealogy of Old and New Cherokee Indian Families by George Morrison Bell. 1972 lc#78-189676 copy at Muskogee , OK pub.lib. Publication: (Barlesville, OK: , 1972).

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