Benjamin Hawkins describes old Cornelius Dougherty's place, abandoned by 1
797, near the town of Quanasee. He calls Doughterty "an old Irish trader
." He was said to have been 120 years old when he died. He was original
ly a member of the party of James II who fled to America after the Glorio
us Revolution and taught the Cherokees how to steal horses from Virgini
a, according to Samuel Cole Williams. He first went into the Overhill tow
ns of the Cherokee in 1719. According to Rogers and Rogers, Alexander Doug
hterty (Cornelius' father?), an Irish trader from Virginia, was the fir
st white man to marry a Cherokee, in 1690.
"Indian Countryman" of Hiqwassee