Chief Chillicothe Chilly McIntosh (Cowetan)

• General Notes
  • Chilly McIntosh is mentioned in a movie called "the Outlaw Josey Wales" which has some real characters as well as fictional. This made me look into him
    
    http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgwnar/creekletters.html
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McIntosh
    
    William M Intosh was a half-breed, and a prominent
    leader of such of his countrymen, the Cowetans, as after
    ward joined the Americans in the war. " He likewise,"
    says Willson, " belonged to the small party who, in 1821,
    23, and 25, were in favor of selling their lands to the
    Americans. In February, of the latter year, lie concluded
    a treaty for the sale of lands, in opposition to the wishes
    of a large majority of his nation. For this act the laws of
    his people denounced death upon him ; and in May his
    house was surrounded and burned, and he himself, with
    one of his adherents, in attempting to escape, was shot.
    His son. Chilly M Intosh, was allowed to leave the house
    unharmed."
    
    http://www.archive.org/stream/battlessealand02tomerich/battlessealand02tomerich_djvu.txt