Robert Due (abt. 1750 - abt. 1810)

Husband of Elizabeth Emory — married 1770 in Cherokee Nation (east)

Descendants

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Biography

Almost nothing is known of Robert Due (Dews), a white trader and interpreter for the Cherokee. He was probably born by 1745. He fathered two daughters in the 1770's, Jennie Due and Mary Due, with a Cherokee woman, Elizabeth Emory ^[1] and he was likely the father of Chief John Jolly with an unknown Cherokee woman.^[2] He was present at the treaty negotiations at the Long Island of the Holston in 1776. Dragging Canoe did not sign the treaty, and learned that Due had revealed Cherokee plans to the white negotiators. In retaliation Dragging Canoe planned to kill all the white traders, but Old Tassel and Bloody Fellow rescued Due and took him to safety. Due described the events in a lenghthy deposition to North Carolina colonial officials. ^[3] He does not appear in records after that date.

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 305. Digitized edition at Starr
2. ↑ Meserve, John B. "Chief Thomas Mitchell Buffington and Chief William Charles Rogers" Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 17, No. 2 June, 1939. p. 141
3. ↑ Due's depostion, Jan 22, 1777. Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, Vol. 22 digitized at Due

• George Morrison Bell, Genealogy of Old and New Cherokee Indian Families, 1972, lc#78-189676, copy at Muskogee , OK pub.lib. Publication: (Bartlesville, OK: , 1972).