Little Carpenter and Old Hop to receive gifts from "Council"
There's two stories here to wrap up June of 1759. One is about the gifts the Virginia Executive Council assigns to two Cherokee leaders. The 2nd story looks at what those 2 Cherokee leaders looked like. What did Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter) looked like? What did Conocotocko ( the first Conocotocko also known as Old Hop ) looked like? One of them came into Winchester VA and to its Fort Loudoun multiple times.
Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter)
13 June 1759 Council journal:
Upon which it was the Advice of the Council,
that the Goods now in the Country
for carrying on a Trade with the said Indians,
be forthwith sent away to their Nation ;
and that a Present out of them of £ 25 , Value ,
be given to Hop ,
and the Little Carpenter,
the two Chiefs of that Nation ,
Source:
#158 (p.140)
Executive Journals , Council of Colonial Virginia
Part of a bigger picture. Attakullakulla (right) on 1730 trip to England.
This is confirmed by the British Museum
The North Carolina Encyclopedia states Attakullakulla is the man in the center, stating he was also known as C Clogoittah.
But the Tennessee Encyclopedia states Attakullakulla is the short man on the far right.
The British Museum confirms this.
Also known as
O Onaconoa
primary name: O Onaconoa
other name: Attakullakulla
other name: Little Carpenter
other name: Onkanaclea
More on Attakullakulla's travels
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Old Hop?
13 June 1759 Council journal:
Upon which it was the Advice of the Council,
that the Goods now in the Country
for carrying on a Trade with the said Indians,
be forthwith sent away to their Nation ;
and that a Present out of them of £ 25 , Value ,
be given to Hop ,
and the Little Carpenter,
the two Chiefs of that Nation ,
Source:
#158 (p.140)
Executive Journals , Council of Colonial Virginia
We don't have a picture of Old Hop, You will see his name often as Old Hopp or Old Hap.
His Cherokee name was :
"Conocotocko of Chota[a] /ˌkʌnəkəˈtoʊkoʊ/ (Cherokee: ᎬᎾᎦᏙᎦ, romanized: Gvnagadoga, "Standing Turkey"),[2] known in English as Old Hop,[b] was a Cherokee elder, serving as the First Beloved Man of the Cherokee from 1753 until his death in 1760. Settlers of European ancestry referred to him as Old Hop.[3] Old Hop was the uncle of Attakullakulla, better known as Little Carpenter." Wikipedia.
This picture is of his nephew, who bore the same Indian name.
The nephew's Cherokee name was:
Conocotocko[a]/ˌkʌnəkəˈtoʊkoʊ/ (Cherokee: ᎬᎾᎦᏙᎦ, romanized: Gvnagadoga, "Standing Turkey"), also known by the folk-etymologized name Cunne Shote,[b] was First Beloved Man of the Cherokee from 1760. He succeeded his uncle Conocotocko I (or " "Old Hop") upon the latter's death. Pro-French like his uncle, he steered the Cherokee into war with the British colonies of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia in the aftermath of the execution of several Cherokee leaders who were being held hostage at Fort Prince George. He held his title until the end of the Anglo-Cherokee War in 1761, when he was deposed in favor of Attakullakulla. Wikipedia.
Portrait of the nephew of Old Hop ---- Standing Turkey (Kanagatoga), chief at Chota (south of present-day Maryville), painting by Francis Parsons, 1762, held at the Smithsonian Institution.
Sources on Old Hop:
That's it.
That's our lead story.
Compiled by Jim Moyer 6/10/2023, updated 06/30/2023, 7/9/2023
Research Notes
Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter)
After 1745, when the Cherokees were at war with the Creek Indians, Attakullakulla was instrumental in bringing Iroquois into the Cherokee country to aid against the Creeks. When, in 1751, because of disturbances attendant upon the Iroquois presence in the Cherokee country, South Carolina embargoed the Cherokee trade, Attakullakulla went to Williamsburg to seek a Virginia trade. Unsuccessful, he went to the Ohio to contact Pennsylvania traders. Governor James Glen of South Carolina then sought to have him apprehended as an enemy. When finally Glen decided to mediate a peace between the Creeks and the Cherokees and to lift the embargo, Attakullakulla, to cement Carolina-Cherokee friendship, led a war party against French convoys on the Mississippi.
In 1753, after Glen had opened official correspondence with the Overhill leadership at Chota, Attakullakulla went as emissary to Charleston and there, with threats of competition from Virginia, Pennsylvania, or even the French, forced Glen to provide better terms in the trade. Nevertheless, mindful of the disastrous embargo of 1751, Attakullakulla determined to undermine the South Carolina trade monopoly. For favoring an effort to open trade with the French, however, his life was threatened by the pro-English headmen of the nation; they forcibly reminded him that, as the only living signer of the Treaty of 1730 with the English, he must hold
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Mr Martin Interpreter
13 June 1759 Council journal:
A Letter from Governor Lyttelton [South Carolina], dated Charles - Town April 27th referring his Honor to Mr. Martin, the Bearer, who was appointed Missionary to the Cherokees , for the latest Occurrences there of any Moment .
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Also two Letters
from Mr. Davies , dated Hanover May 30th and June gth ,
the one signifying
that the Society for managing the Indian Missions and Schools , have lately received Mr. Richardson's Journal; and communicating according to their Order to his Honor some Particulars of Consequence therein contained, respecting the Temper and Disposition of the Cherokees ; adding if his Honor pleases to see the said Journal, his Commands shall be obey'd .
The other signifying
he had desired Mr. Martin , in the Name of the Society , to request his Honor , to order the Interpreter who is in the Pay of Virginia , to assist the Missionary occasionally when he is not engaged in the public Service .
The Governor acquainted the Council
with what he had learnt from Mr. Martin , concerning the Cherokees , and desired their Advice thereon ,
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Source:
#158 (p.140)
Executive Journals , Council of Colonial Virginia
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