General Notes

1  NATI
2  PLAC Blood: Non- Cherokeee


Reservations 640 acres: July 1817, # 8, south side of the Tennessee, inRight of Wife, 5 in family
Smith Resolution: Amohee, voted Nay, anti-treaty
Page 320 "History of The Cherokee Indians" by Emmett Starr
Children of Nannie Fields and William Blythe.
1. John Blythe who married Justine Cadle, Jane Lane nee Harlan and Poline
Janes nee Tucker.
2. Martha Jennie Blythe who married Alexander Adam Clingan.
3. William Blythe who married Fannie Hammondtree
4. Elizabeth Blythe who married Ira Goddard
5. Mary Blythe who married Andrew Jackson Tucker
6. Elijah Blythe who married Martha Clingan
7. James Chastine Blythe who married Sarah Jamima Rogers and Sarah Matila
Kell nee Harlan
8. Absalom Ellis Blythe who married Mary J. MIllsap.
9. Nancy Ann BLythe who married Archibald Henry and William Bean.
10. Jospeh Riley Blythe who never married.
William Blythe:  Tennessee River, McMinn County, Tennessee  6 1/4 bloods,all read English, 13 slaves, 1 white intermarriage, 1 farm, 1 farmer, 2weavers, 3 spinners, 1 mill and ferry boat.
From Blythe Book
Page 36
William Blythe of Blythe's Ferry- - Rhea County, Tennessee
Born ca.1790, SC., died after 1850
The exact date of Blythe settling in Rhea County, TN is not known by theauthor, but early records confirm it was between 1800 - and 1810.

William Blythe Had Early Ferry
posted March 23, 2001

The lovely spot where the Hiwassee River flows into the Tennessee Riverat Jolly's Island long was a gathering spot for the Indians. At one timeit was the most important river crossing between
Chattanooga and Knoxville. William Blythe operated a ferry there, whichremained in operation until the mid-1990s.

The road leading from this site to the mountain north of the river wasknown as "The Great Road" or the  Kiuka War Trace. Young Sam Houstonspent several years at the island home of Cherokee Chief John Jolly andwas adopted into the tribe before he became governor of Tennessee and ofTexas and a U.S. senator.

According to a book by Pat Hicks Brigance, the Blythe apparently traceback to William and Sarah Blythe, who came from England to the York Riverin Virginia in 1652. They settled at Isle of Wight
County, where William Blythe died in 1663. A son, Christopher Blythe,made his way to Chowan County, N.C. William Blythe, believed to be adescendant of Christopher, pushed on to Greenville, S.C. He married SarahMurphree in 1769, though he may have had an earlier wife. His last wifewas Barbary. It is believed the Blythe who came to Rhea County shortlyafter 1800 were children of William Blythe of Greenville. He died about1837. The Blythe home north of Travelers Rest was an old stagecoach stop.

Mrs. Brigance lists the children of William Blythe of Greenville as Johnwho married Martha Chastain, Jonathan, Absalom, Daniel M., William,Thomas, Esther, Elizabeth, David, Sally, and Mary who married LabonGravlee and then Thomas Drennen, who was killed by Indians in 1820.

Martha Chastain Blythe was the daughter of the Rev. John Chastain andMary O'Bryan. Her great-grandparents were among the first Huguenots fromFrance to settle at Manakintown, Va., in the 1690s.

Children of John and Martha Chastain Blythe are said to include John whomarried Mary Maloney in 1809 in Rhea County, Elizabeth, Elijah, the ferryoperator William, Sarah, Martha who married Silas Condict Byram, Mary whomarried Adam Derrick, Nancy who married Samuel Fry, and Jerusha whomarried James Roark. Elizabeth and Sarah Blythe did not marry and laterlived with the James Roarks at
Birchwood.

In Rhea County in 1809, William Blythe married Nancy Fields, daughter ofthe prominent Cherokee Richard Fields. Blythe bought a slave woman,Nancy, and her young daughter, along with some cows and horses, fromSamuel Carr in 1812. He later transferred a Negro boy Daniel, 8, toThomas Hopkins for $250. William Blythe was among the Cherokee contingentwho went along with Gen. Andrew Jackson in the cam