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Persoonlijke gegevens Maj. John ·ÄúChahta Itikhana·Äù Pitchlynn 

• Hij is geboren op 11 juli 1764 in St Thomas, St Thomas, Virgin Islands (US), USA.Bronnen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 37

  Let op: Was ouder dan 65 jaar (101) toen kind (Sophia C Pitchlynn) werd geboren (8 januari 1866).

  Let op: Was jonger dan 16 jaar (9) toen kind (Sophia Lk-Lo-Ha-Wah Pitchlynn (Folsom)) werd geboren (27 december 1773).

• Woonachtig:
• Mississippi, United States.Bronnen 2, 4, 12, 23, 28
• in het jaar 1830: Lowndes, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten.Bron 16
• USA.Bron 19

  Relation to Head of House: Great Grandfather

• in het jaar 1790: Surry, North Carolina, United States.Bronnen 21, 22, 27
• (*New [_MILT]) in het jaar 1812 in United States.Bronnen 4, 27, 34
• Hij is overleden op 20 mei 1834 in Lowndes, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten, hij was toen 69 jaar oud.Bronnen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 37

  Let op: Was 9 maanden voor de geboorte (8 januari 1866) van kind (Sophia C Pitchlynn) al overleden (20 mei 1834).

• Hij is begraven in Clay County, Mississippi, USA.Bronnen 4, 14, 30
• Een kind van Issac Pitchlynn en Jemima Sally Hickman
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 7 februari 2024.

Gezin van Maj. John ·ÄúChahta Itikhana·Äù Pitchlynn

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Sophia Lk-Lo-Ha-Wah Pitchlynn (Folsom).

Marriage
Date: Abt. 1797
Marriage
Date: 1788
Marriage
Date: 1780
Place: Choctaw Nation, Mississippi
Marriage
Date: Bet. 1785-1816
Marriage
Date: Abt. 1816
Place: Choctaw, Mississippi, United States

Marriage
Date: 1804,
Marriage
Date: 1804,
Marriage
Date: 1804
Place: Choctaw, Mississippi, United States,
Marriage
Date: 1804
Place: Mississippi, USA,
Marriage
Date: Bet. 1804-1818
Place: Choctaw Nation, MS,
Marriage
Date: 1780,, , , , , ,, , , , , ,

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1804 te Choctaw, Mississippi, United States, hij was toen 39 jaar oud.Bronnen 25, 37

Kind(eren):

1. John Pitchlynn  1780-1814
2. James Pitchlynn  1789-1831
3. John Jack Pitchlynn  1792-1831
4. Joseph William Pitchlynn  1801-1834
5. Sarah Autra Pridgen (Pitchlyn Pitchlynn)  ± 1802-1866 
6. Kate Pitchlynn  1803-1805
7. Kate Pitchlynn  1803-1835
8. Eliza Pitchlynn  1805-1836
9. Peter Perkins "Hat-Choo-Tuck-Nee" "The Snapping Turtle' Pitchlynn  1806-1881
10. Hon. Peter Perkins Pitchlynn  1806-1881 
11. Charles Pitchlynn  1807-1824
12. Silas Pitchlynn  1809-1824
13. Mary Pitchlynn  1811-1886
14. Elizabeth Pitchlynn  1811-1896
15. Mary Garland  1811-1886
16. Rhoda "Pushhuma" (Red Haired Woman) Pitchlynn  1814-1911
17. Rhoda Howell  1814-1911
18. Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn  1816-1862
19. Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn  1816-1862
20. Eliza Anna Cornelia Pitchlynn  1818-1861
21. Eliza Anna Cornelia Harris  1818-1860
22. Mary Pitchlynn  1818-1928
23. Elizabeth Harris  1820-1890
24. Elizabeth (Betsey) Pitchlynn  1820-1896
25. William Boykin Pitchlynn  1823-1889
26. Kessia Pytchlynn  1824-1858
27. Kiziah Pitchlynn  1824-1858
28. Daugher Pitchlynn  1826-1826
29. Sophia C Pitchlynn  1866-????
30. Isaac Pitchlynn  ????-< 1836

• Het echtpaar heeft gemeenschappelijke voorouders.



(2) Hij is getrouwd met Rhoda Wyoka Folsom.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1804 te Choctaw, Alabama, United States, hij was toen 39 jaar oud.




Kind(eren):

1. Sophia Lk-Lo-Ha-Wah Pitchlynn (Folsom)  1773-1871 
2. John Pitchlynn  1780-1814
3. James Pitchlynn  1789-1831
4. John "Jack" Pitchlynn  1792-1832
5. Joseph C Pitchlynn  1801-1824
6. Kate Pitchlynn  1803-1805
7. Silas Pitchlynn  1809-1830
8. Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn  1816-1862
9. William Boykin Pitchlynn  1823-1889




(3) Hij is getrouwd met Aiahnichih Ohoyoh.

Zij zijn getrouwd




Notities over Maj. John ·ÄúChahta Itikhana·Äù Pitchlynn



Maj. John Chahta Itikhana Pitchlynn, Sr.
Gender:
Male
Birth:
June 11, 1765
Aboard a British Navy ship near St. Johns Island off Puerto Rico or St. Thomas Parish, Berkeley, South Carolina, United States
Death:
May 20, 1835 (69)
(Previously Waverly, Lowndes Co., MS), West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States
Place of Burial:
Clay County, Mississippi, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Isaac Pitchlynn; Isaac Pitchlyn and Jemima Sally Pitchlynn (Hickman)

Husband of Aiahnichih Ohoyoh;
NN Pitchlynn (Kincaid)
and Sophia Lk-lo-ha-wah Pitchlynn (Folsom), Iksa Hachotukni

Father of Sophia Franklin (Pitchlynn); Joseph C. Pitchlynn; Alice (Kate?) Pitchlynn; John "Jack" Pitchlynn, Jr.; Peter Perkins Pichlynn, Sr., Chief to the Choctaw Nation; Charles Pitchlynn; Silas Denmore Pitchlynn; Mary (Pitchlynn) Garland; Rhoda Push-humma Howell (Pitchlynn); Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn; Eliza Ann Cornelia Harris (Pitchlynn); Keziah Wilson / Poland (Pitchlynn); James Pitchlynn; Sarah Autra Pridgen (Pitchlynn); Daugher Pitchlynn; Isaac Pitchlynn; Mary Pitchlynn; Keziah Kizzie Pitchlynn; Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn; Silas Denmore Pitchlynn; Eliza Ann Cornelius Pitchlynn; Elizabeth Pitchlynn, "Betsey" and Petrus Perkins Snapping Turtle Pitchlynn, "Snapping Turtle"

Brother of John Pitchlynn; Ebenezer Pitchlynn; John Jack Pitchlynn; Alexander Pitchlynn; James Pitchlynn; and Sophia C. Pitchlynn

https://www.geni.com/people/Major-John-Pitchlynn-Sr/6000000003481639907

Major John Pitchlynn, Sr. is your fourth great grandfather.
You
¬â€  ·Üí Henry Marvin Welborn
your father ·Üí Henry Marvin Welborn, Sr.
his father ·Üí Francis "Fannie" Pernerviane Welborn (Davis)
his mother ·Üí Primma M. Pridgen
her mother ·Üí Sarah Autra Pridgen (Pitchlynn)
her mother ·Üí Major John Pitchlynn, Sr.
her father

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John Chahta Itikhana Pitchlynn, Sr.
Gender:
Male
Birth:
June 11, 1765
Aboard a British Navy ship near St. Johns Island off Puerto Rico or St. Thomas Parish, Berkeley, South Carolina, United States
Death:
May 20, 1835 (69)
(Previously Waverly, Lowndes Co., MS), West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Isaac Pitchlynn and Jemima Sally Pitchlynn
Husband of NN Pitchlynn and Sophia Lk-lo-ha-wah Pitchlynn, Iksa Hachotukni

Father of James Pitchlynn; John "Jack" Pitchlynn, Jr.; Sophia Franklin; Joseph C. Pitchlynn; Alice (Kate?) Pitchlynn; Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Sr., Chief to the Choctaw Nation; Charles Pitchlynn; Silas Denmore Pitchlynn; Mary Garland; Rhoda Push-humma Howell; Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn; Elizabeth "Betsy" C. Harris (Pitchlynn); Eliza Ann Cornelia Harris and Keziah Wilson / Poland ¬´ less
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https://www.geni.com/people/Major-John-Pitchlynn-Sr/6000000003481639907

https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/john-pitchlynn/

John Pitchlynn (1764·Äì1835) Choctaw Leader

John Pitchlynn, a trader and interpreter, became one of the most influential European Americans in relations with the Choctaw Nation. Born near Charleston, South Carolina, on 11 June 1764, he was the son of Isaac Pitchlynn and Jemima Hickman Pitchlynn. After arriving in the Choctaw country with his father in 1774, Pitchlynn received no formal education and became fluent in Choctaw. He emerged as an official interpreter at the Hopewell Treaty conference with the Choctaw delegation in January 1786. On 12 August 1797 Benjamin Hawkins, principal agent for the Four Nations, confirmed Pitchlynn·Äôs appointment as interpreter and assistant agent to the Choctaw and Chickasaw.
For the next forty years Pitchlynn played a significant role as an adviser and mediator for the Choctaw and the federal government. He served as interpreter at the Nashville Conference in 1792 and at the treaty conferences at Fort Confederation (1802) and Mount Dexter (1805), in which the Choctaw ceded some seven million acres of land to the United States. He became an asset to the Mississippi Territory when he counseled the Choctaw to oppose Tecumseh and convinced them to fight against the Red Stick Creek during the War of 1812. Pitchlynn also served as an adjutant and interpreter during the Pensacola Campaign, and two of his sons, James and John Jr., served with American forces commanded by Andrew Jackson.
Following the War of 1812 Pitchlynn·Äôs influence among the Choctaw became more pronounced. He returned as official interpreter at the treaty conference at the Choctaw Trading House near old Fort Confederation in October 1816. Pitchlynn and his son, James, an advocate for Removal, played important roles in the October 1820 Treaty of Doak·Äôs Stand when the Choctaw agreed to exchange land in southwestern Mississippi for thirteen million acres in what is now Arkansas and Oklahoma. In September 1824 Pitchlynn accompanied a Choctaw delegation that included the three district chiefs (Pushmataha, Apukshunnubbee, and Mushulatubbee) to Washington, D.C. Despite the deaths of Apukshunnubbee and Pushmataha, the Choctaw signed the Treaty of Washington on 20 January 1825.
Pitchlynn·Äôs service to the United States and his support for Removal proved crucial in the years leading to the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. In November 1826 he assisted John Coffee, Thomas Hinds, and William Clark at a conference with Choctaw commissioners. The Choctaw, including Pitchlynn·Äôs son, Peter, rejected a proposal to move to lands west of the Mississippi. Jackson·Äôs 1828 election as president, extension of Mississippi state laws over the Choctaw, and passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830 forced Pitchlynn and the Choctaw to the treaty grounds near Dancing Rabbit Creek in Noxubee County, Mississippi, in mid-September 1830. Deeply divided and desperate, the Choctaw agreed to surrender their last ten million acres in Mississippi by signing the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek on 27 September. Under the treaty and supplementary articles, several individuals received special land reservations, including John Pitchlynn and his sons, Peter, John Jr., Silas, and Thomas, who received 5,120 acres.
John Pitchlynn·Äôs influence over the Choctaw and his participation in the market economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley were directly related to his wives and their connection to the Choctaw elite. His first marriage, to the mixed-blood Rhoda Folsom, produced three sons, James, John Jr., and Joseph. Following her death, he married Sophia Folsom, also of mixed blood, and they had eight children: Peter Perkins, Silas, Mary, Rhoda, Thomas, Eliza, Elizabeth, and Kiziah. Prior to Removal, Peter replaced Mushulatubbee as chief of the Northeastern District in January 1831 and emerged as a prominent Choctaw leader and spokesman.
By 1810 Pitchlynn had moved to Plymouth, on the west bank of the Tombigbee River about five miles north of present-day Columbus. With his investments in livestock, fifty slaves, and two hundred acres of corn and cotton under cultivation, he may have been the wealthiest man in the Choctaw Nation prior to Removal. He became part owner of a stage line that operated between Columbus and Jackson and was a charter member in the Masonic Lodge in Columbus. He provided financial and political support for Cyrus Kingsbury·Äôs mission schools at Elliot on the Yalobusha River in 1819 and at Mayhew on Oktibbeha Creek in 1820. He also exposed his family to religious training from visiting Methodist and Presbyterian preachers.
Pitchlynn held great affection for his extended bicultural family and exercised unparalleled influence over the ·Äúcivilizing·Äù forces that affected his kinsmen and the Choctaw. Deeply conflicted over Removal, he eventually decided to remain in Mississippi and tried to influence his son, Peter, to return. After liquidating most of his assets in anticipation of Removal, John Pitchlynn lived at Waverly, in Clay County, where he died on 20 May 1835, leaving an estate valued at more than thirty-five thousand dollars, mostly in slaves. The other members of his extended family then migrated west.
Written by James P. Pate, University of Mississippi, Tupelo

Further Reading
W. David Baird, Peter Pitchlynn: Chief of the Choctaws (1972)
James Taylor Carson, Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal (1999)
Clara Sue Kidwell, Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818·Äì1918 (1995)
Don Martini, Who Was Who among the Southern Indians: A Genealogical Notebook, 1698·Äì1907 (1997)

Citation Information
The following information is provided for citations.
Article Title John Pitchlynn
Coverage 1764·Äì1835
Author James P.¬â€ Pate
Website Name Mississippi Encyclopedia
URL http://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/john-pitchlynn/
Access Date June 13, 2022
Publisher Center for Study of Southern Culture
Original Published Date July 11, 2017
Date of Last Update April 14, 2018

https://books.google.com/books/about/Who_was_who_Among_the_Southern_Indians.html?id=sWUTHAAACAAJ

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John Pitchlynn was a Scottish-American who served as the official U.S. Interpreter for relations between the government of the United States and the Choctaw Nation, an office known at the time as the Choctaw Agency. His interactions extended from the time of George Washington through the administration of Andrew Jackson. He built a home on the west bank of the Tombigbee River that became the nucleus of the abortive village of Plymouth, Mississippi. The site is now part of the Plymouth Bluff Environmental Center.
Pitchlynn married Sophia Folsom, a mixed-race Choctaw of partly Anglo-American descent, whose father was Ebenezer Folsom, and mother Natika was Choctaw. Sophia's Choctaw name was Lk-lo-ha-wah (loved but lost). The couple married in 1804.[1]
The Pitchlynns had ten children. The most notable of these was their son Peter Pitchlynn, who later became principal chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma after the removal of the 1831 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pitchlynn
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JOHN PITCHLYNN

John was reported to have been born aboard a ship near St Thomas, Carribean Islands, in 1745. One source is reporting the year 1756. Another source is giving the date of 11 June 1745; but no documentation has been given. He was the son of an Englishman named Isaac Pitchlynn and genealogists are listing Jemima Hickman as his mother. Now some have written that Isaac was a naval officer; most recently however, I have seen a historical notation that Mr. Pitchlynn was an indentured servant to a Naval man named William Dick. Either way, John was born on his way to this new land called America when he decided to make his entrance into the world.

Where they made their home intially is unknown. But John's mother had folks in Georgia and it's possible they lived there for a time. Somewhere down the line, Isaac and his young son John ventured into the Choctaw Nation. Isaac died and John was supposedly adopted and raised in the Choctaw Tribe. He was taught the language and in all of the Choctaw ways...

When it was time, he took a Choctaw bride named Rhoda Folsom, daughter of white man named Nathaniel Folsom & a Choctaw woman. John and Rhoda had three sons: James (1789-1830), "Jack" John, Jr. (1792-c1832), and Joseph Pitchlynn (1801-1827). Rhoda passed away about 1803-1804.

It wasn't long after that when John married another Folsom girl---Sophia Folsom, daughter of Ebenezer Folsom (Nathaniel's brother) and fullblood Choctaw woman (Tehona? Nitiki?). John and Sophia would have a rather large family---5 daughters and 3 more sons: Peter P. (1806-1881), Silas D. (1809-1830), Mary (1811-1886), Rhoda (1814-1911), Thomas Jefferson (1816-c1862), Eliza Ann Cornelius (1818-1861), Elizabeth "Betsey" (1820-1896), and Kizzia (1824-1858).

John Pitchlynn was a U.S. Veteran and served during the War of 1812 [he is believed to have served during the Revolutionary War]. His title came from his military service and it was a title that would stick with him his whole life. In 1988, during a tour of Judge H. C. Harris' home in Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see and to hold Major Pitchlynn's sword. Being a direct descendant of his, I must say it was an awesome experience... Like shaking his hand or something like that. It was quite old and a strikingly beautiful weapon. And it was well cared for.

Major John Pitchlynn was a U.S. Interpreter for the American Government. On the 27th of September 1830, Pitchlynn signed the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty. This treaty was for the removal of the Choctaw Tribe from Mississippi to the new Choctaw land which is now in Oklahoma. Those whom wanted to stay in Mississippi, were allowed to do so. Major Pitchlynn was the father of Peter P. Pitchlynn. Peter was instrumental in the removal process by scouting out the new lands west of Mississippi and by helping with the actual removal process itself. He would go on to become a big man in the Choctaw Nation and in Washington,D.C. and on his own merits. But John did not live to see it happen---But his young son did become a Chief of The Choctaws and Peter made many important contributions throughout his lifetime. Had John lived to see it, he would have been immensely proud of his "favorite" son. Letters written to Peter by John showed how he longed to see his son one last time before he died. Sadly, Peter never made it to his father's side before he passed away. These letters have left many readers feeling profoundly saddened.

Major Pitchlynn had a large family. He became father-in-law to Samuel Garland, when he married Pitchlynn's daughter, Mary Pitchlynn. Samuel was another Chief of the Choctaws. Two of his girls married the Harris Brothers, from Hyde county, North Carolina; Eliza married William Riley Harris and Betsey married Lorenzo G. Harris. Rhoda married Calvin Howell and Kizzia married a man named Wm Poland.

Not many people can say they have an ancestor who is a ghost. But the descendants of John Pitchlynn can. Apparently, grave robbers tried to disturb his gravesite and his wife traveled back to Mississippi to relocate him to Oklahoma. This is fact. However, his body may well have been removed and reinterred elsewhere; but it would seem that his spirit stayed in Mississippi. Where he haunts the surrounding areas. His hauntings were mentioned in a book called 13 Ghosts and Jeffrey, by Kathryn Tucker Windham.

Brenda L. Minor
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32380085

¬â€ Spouse:
¬â€ ¬â€ Sophia Folsom Pitchlynn (1773 - 1871)
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¬â€ Children:
¬â€ ¬â€ Rhoda Pitchlynn Howell (1814 - 1911)*
¬â€ ¬â€ Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn (1816 - 1862)*
¬â€ ¬â€ Eliza Anna Cornelia Pitchlynn Harris (1818 - 1860)*
¬â€ ¬â€ Elizabeth Pitchlynn Harris (1820 - 1890)*
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Note: Major Pitchlynn's burial site in MS was distrurbed by thieves and vandals. Sophia chose to remove her husband's body and bury him in McCurtain county, Oklahoma. Closer to her. The exact location is undisclosed. For obvious reasons...
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Burial: Unknown
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Created by: Brenda L. Minor
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Name: John PITCHLYNN Maj.
Given Name: John
Surname: Pitchlynn
Sex: M

Change Date: 14 APR 2010
Birth: 11 JUN 1764 in St Thomas, Virginia, USA
Birth: 11 JUN 1764
Death: 20 MAY 1834 in Choctaw Nation, Columbus, Mississippi, USA

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Marriage 2 Rhoda FOLSOM b: 1810 in Rowan, North Carolina, USA (Parents Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- )
Married: 1787 in Choctaw Nation, Mississippi, USA
Married: 15 DEC 1823 in Mississippi, USA

Marriage 3 Rhoda Wyoka FOLSOM b: in Chocktaw Territory (Parents Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- )
Married: 1788 in Choctaw Nation, Mississippi, USA

Marriage 4 Sophia FOLSOM b: 1780 in Choctaw Nation, Mississippi, USA (Parents Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- )
Married: 1804 in Choctaw Nation, Mississippi, USA

Marriage 5 Rhoda FOLSOM b: 1761 in Mississippi, USA (Parents Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- )
Married: 1804 in Choctaw Nation

Marriage 6 Sophia Li Lo Ha Wah LOST b: 27 DEC 1773 in Mississippi Territory (Parents Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- )
Married: 1804 in Choctaw Nation, Mississippi, USA
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=choctaw&id=I11236

Wyoka Folsom
Born in 1782
Deceased in 1803 , age at death: 21 years old

Parents
Ebenezer Folsom 1750-
Nitika Tehani 1762-

Spouses and children
Married in 1797 to John Pitchlynn, Major 1764-1835 with
F Sophia Pitchlynn 1797-

Siblings
F Rhoda Folsom 1761-/1797
F Sophia Lk-Lo-Ha-Wah Folsom 1786-1871
http://gw.geneanet.org/espiceland?lang=en&pz=tru+catherine&nz=spiceland&ocz=0&p=wyoka&n=folsom

John Pitchlynn, Major 1764-1835 married three sisters (daughters of Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- ?)

#1 F Rhoda Folsom (Parents Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- )
children:
Married before 1797, Choctaw Nation (Mississippi), to John Pitchlynn, Major 1764-1835 with
M James Pitchlynn
M John Pitchlynn
M Joseph C Pitchlynn /1797-1824

#2 F Wyoka Folsom 1782-1803 (Parents Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- )
children: Sophia Pitchlynn 1797- ?

#3 F Sophia Lk-Lo-Ha-Wah Folsom 1786-1871 (Parents Ebenezer Folsom 1750- ? & Nitika Tehani 1762- )
children:
Married in 1804, Choctaw Nation (Mississippi), to John Pitchlynn, Major 1764-1835 with
M Peter Perkins Hat Choo Tuck Nee Pitchlynn, Chief 1806-1881
M Silas Pitchlynn 1811-
F Mary Pitchlynn 1813-1880
F Rhoda Pitchlynn 1814-
M Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn 1816-1862
F Elizabeth Pitchlynn 1820-
M William B. Pitchlynn 1823-1889
F Eliza Ann Cornelia Pitchlynn
F Kiziah Pitchlynn 1824-
F Alice (Kate?) Pitchlynn
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U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
NameJohn Pytchlynn
Birth Date11 Jun 1754
Death Date20 May 1835
Death PlaceColumbia, Mississippi
SAR Membership36967
RoleAncestor
Application Date16 Jul 1925
Spouse
Sophia Folsom
Children
Kessia Pytchlynn
Source Citation
Volume: 185
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.
National Society, Sons of the American Revolution
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...Col. John Pitchlynn, a white man, was born off the shore of the Isle of St. Thomas, near Porto Rico, on board ship. He was the son of a British Naval Officer, by the name of Isaac Pitchlynn. His mission among the Choctaws was to help make a treaty with them: It was on this trip he took his young son with him. The father died in Mississippi leaving the son John, among the Choctaws, an orphan. He married a Choctaw woman by the name of Sopha [Sophia] Folsom, the only daughter of Ebenezer Folsom. This was the beginning of the large and noted family among the Choctaws.
John Pitchlynn was given a commission as an interpreter for the Choctaws in 1786 by George Washington.
Source: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v006/v006p215.html
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Life of John Pitchlynn
Posted Jul 31, 2017 by cathyabrams
Birth: 1745, USADeath: 1835
Columbus
Lowndes County
Mississippi, USA
JOHN PITCHLYNN

John was reported to have been born aboard a ship near St Thomas, Carribean Islands, in 1745. One source is reporting the year 1756. Another source is giving the date of 11 June 1745; but no documentation has been given. He was the son of an Englishman named Isaac Pitchlynn and genealogists are listing Jemima Hickman as his mother. Now some have written that Isaac was a naval officer; most recently however, I have seen a historical notation that Mr. Pitchlynn was an indentured servant to a Naval man named William Dick. Either way, John was born on his way to this new land called America when he decided to make his entrance into the world.

Where they made their home intially is unknown. But John's mother had folks in Georgia and it's possible they lived there for a time. Somewhere down the line, Isaac and his young son John ventured into the Choctaw Nation. Isaac died and John was supposedly adopted and raised in the Choctaw Tribe. He was taught the language and in all of the Choctaw ways...

When it was time, he took a Choctaw bride named Rhoda Folsom, daughter of white man named Nathaniel Folsom & a Choctaw woman. John and Rhoda had three sons: James (1789-1830), "Jack" John, Jr. (1792-c1832), and Joseph Pitchlynn (1801-1827). Rhoda passed away about 1803-1804.

It wasn't long after that when John married another Folsom girl---Sophia Folsom, daughter of Ebenezer Folsom (Nathaniel's brother) and fullblood Choctaw woman (Tehona? Nitiki?). John and Sophia would have a rather large family---5 daughters and 3 more sons: Peter P. (1806-1881), Silas D. (1809-1830), Mary (1811-1886), Rhoda (1814-1911), Thomas Jefferson (1816-c1862), Eliza Ann Cornelius (1818-1861), Elizabeth "Betsey" (1820-1896), and Kizzia (1824-1858).

John Pitchlynn was a U.S. Veteran and served during the War of 1812 [he is believed to have served during the Revolutionary War]. His title came from his military service and it was a title that would stick with him his whole life. In 1988, during a tour of Judge H. C. Harris' home in Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see and to hold Major Pitchlynn's sword. Being a direct descendant of his, I must say it was an awesome experience... Like shaking his hand or something like that. It was quite old and a strikingly beautiful weapon. And it was well cared for.

Major John Pitchlynn was a U.S. Interpreter for the American Government. On the 27th of September 1830, Pitchlynn signed the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty. This treaty was for the removal of the Choctaw Tribe from Mississippi to the new Choctaw land which is now in Oklahoma. Those whom wanted to stay in Mississippi, were allowed to do so. Major Pitchlynn was the father of Peter P. Pitchlynn. Peter was instrumental in the removal process by scouting out the new lands west of Mississippi and by helping with the actual removal process itself. He would go on to become a big man in the Choctaw Nation and in Washington,D.C. and on his own merits. But John did not live to see it happen---But his young son did become a Chief of The Choctaws and Peter made many important contributions throughout his lifetime. Had John lived to see it, he would have been immensely proud of his "favorite" son. Letters written to Peter by John showed how he longed to see his son one last time before he died. Sadly, Peter never made it to his father's side before he passed away. These letters have left many readers feeling profoundly saddened.

Major Pitchlynn had a large family. He became father-in-law to Samuel Garland, when he married Pitchlynn's daughter, Mary Pitchlynn. Samuel was another Chief of the Choctaws. Two of his girls married the Harris Brothers, from Hyde county, North Carolina; Eliza married William Riley Harris and Betsey married Lorenzo G. Harris. Rhoda married Calvin Howell and Kizzia married a man named Wm Poland.

Not many people can say they have an ancestor who is a ghost. But the descendants of John Pitchlynn can. Apparently, grave robbers tried to disturb his gravesite and his wife traveled back to Mississippi to relocate him to Oklahoma. This is fact. However, his body may well have been removed and reinterred elsewhere; but it would seem that his spirit stayed in Mississippi. Where he haunts the surrounding areas. His hauntings were mentioned in a book called 13 Ghosts and Jeffrey, by Kathryn Tucker Windham.

Brenda L. Minor
TO BE CONTINUED....

Family links:
Spouse:
Sophia Folsom Pitchlynn (1773 - 1871)

Children:
Rhoda Pitchlynn Howell (1814 - 1911)*
Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn (1816 - 1862)*
Eliza Anna Cornelia Pitchlynn Harris (1818 - 1860)*
Elizabeth Pitchlynn Harris (1820 - 1890)*

Note: Major Pitchlynn's burial site in MS was distrurbed by thieves and vandals. Sophia chose to remove her husband's body and bury him in McCurtain county, Oklahoma. Closer to her. The exact location is undisclosed. For obvious reasons... Burial:
Unknown
Created by: Brenda L. Minor
Record added: Dec 24, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 32380085
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