Note 33 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 2)

Called by the English “Little Carpenter”; he was the greatest chief in state-craft ever produced by the Cherokees. While a youth he accompanied Sir Alexander Cuming to England, in 1730, and the impression he there received of the power of Great Britain had much to do with his friendly attitude towards the English and against the French. At that time his name was Unwanequa (Onconecaw in South Carolina records) but changed, according to Cherokee custom, to Chuconnunta, and later to Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter). Timberlake (1762) speaking of the two factions, says that he had a large faction of the Cherokees with him since “policy and art are the greatest steps to power.” Williams, Memoirs, 95. In 1757, he was addressed by Dinwiddie as second in power to Old Hop, and he urged that governor to send him again to England. His activities were too numerous to be incorporated in a footnote. He was born in what is now East Tennessee on the Big Island of the French Broad River (Sevier’s Island) which one of the war-trails of the Cherokees passed. He died about 1782, “about the termination, or a little after, of the American War” or the Revolution. He was small of stature, slender and of delicate frame—so described by two writers who came in contact with him: Williams, Wm. Tatham, Wataugan, 21; Bartram, Travels, 362. Felix Walker, once a Wataugan and later a member of Congress from North Carolina, describes his appearance in 1775: “He was said to be about ninety years of age; a very small man, and so lean and light-habited that I scarcely believe he would have exceeded more in weight than a pound for each year of his life. He was marked with two large scares or scarfs on each cheek. He was the most celebrated and influential Indian among all the tribes then known; considered as the Solon of his day.” Walker saw the Little Carpenter at the Henderson-Cherokee treaty, at Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga in March, 1775. The only portrait of him in existence is reproduced in Williams, Early Travels in the Tennessee Country.