Mary Susannah Grant

Mary was a Cherokee woman

Biography

"Mary" Grant was the Cherokee daughter of Indian trader Ludovic Grant and a Cherokee woman from the Long Hair clan, possibly named Eughioote. Emmet Starr did not list a given name for either "Mary" or her mother. [1]

There is no record of her name or her date or place of death. The Find-a-grave memorial is undocumented. [2]
Ludovic Grant, a Scots emigrant, entered the Cherokee Nation in 1726 [3] and Mary is assumed to have been born about 1728 based on what is known of her children. According to Starr she had three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, and Susannah with William Emory, the son of Indian trader John Amory. [4] Some historians have come to believe that Susannah was not the child of Mary Grant and William Emory. and that while the Cherokee man called Will Emory was William Emory's son, his mother was a full-blood Cherokee, not Mary Grant. [5]

Disputed Relations

A previous version of this profile claimed, without source, an additional child, The Spirit, who has been detached.

She is also claimed by some to be mother of Abraham Emory, but the compiler does not sufficiently support his theory.[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. Digitized edition at Starr
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #61964811
3. ↑ Grant, Ludovic. Historical Relation of the Facts. 1755. Reprinted in the “Journal of Cherokee Studies” Vol. XXVI, pp. 2-23.
4. ↑ Starr, History, pp. 305-306.
5. ↑ Shadburn, Don L., Upon Our Ruins, The Cottonpatch Press, 2011, p. 481
6. ↑ Larry Petrisky, Abraham Hembree Data Project, Rootsweb, Feb 2004; edited by Joyce Reece; attempts to make case for an additional child Abraham Emory: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnmcmin2/AbrahamHembree.htm

See also:

• Lawrence Petrisky, William Emory of the Cherokee Emory discussion board, genealogy.com), January 22, 2004 at 12:24:18. Extract from his larger work cited above.
• Unknown author, William Emory, packhorseman, British soldier TN Polk, (rootsweb.com), undated
• Shadburn, Don L., Upon Our Ruins, The Cottonpatch Press, 2011, pp. 480-486

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• Ethnicity: Native American
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