Lyncoya Jackson
Creek Indian child adopted by Andrew Jackson · Lived 1815 to 1828 · aged 13
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Something wrong?Lyncoya Jackson, also known as Lincoyer or Lincoya, was an Indigenous American from a family that was a part of the Upper Creek tribal-geographical grouping and more than likely affiliated with Red Stick political party.
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Excerpt from Alabama map in Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1898) showing "Talishatchie Town (Creek)" and "Old Creek Village"
The critically endangered green pitcher plant is indigenous to the biome where Lyncoya was born (Photo: Wesos19, 2018)
In this 1844 engraving from Amos Kendall's Life of Andrew Jackson, Red Stick leader William Weatherford surrenders to Jackson, ending the First Creek War; the African-American man kneeling in the bottom left of the image may represent Lyncoya's caregiver Charles
The building in the foreground, originally two stories, is the former Log Hermitage. The building in the background was constructed as a kitchen. Both structures were later used as slave quarters.
Jackson wrote to his wife Rachel on December 7, 1823, that "I would be delighted to receive a letter from our son, little Hutchings, & even Lyncoya," and according to editors of The Letters of Andrew Jackson, Volume V: 1821-1824 (published 1996), "Lyncoya wrote Jackson on December 29." This is a typed transcript of the handwritten transcript created during the Jacksonian era. (THS 42889)
Lyncoya encountered Ya-ha Hadjo, also known as Mad Wolf, sometime before 1823; this portrait is most likely the work of Charles Bird King, and it appears in History of the Indian Tribes of North America, which was published between 1836 and 1845 (DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University)
Andrew Jackson by Rembrandt Peale, painted 1819 in Washington, D. C. (Maryland Historical Society BCLM-CA.679)Family
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Lyncoya Jackson, also known as Lincoyer or Lincoya, was an Indigenous American from a family that was a part of the Upper Creek tribal-geographical grouping and more than likely affiliated with Red Stick political party. The family lived in the Muscogee tribal town at Tallasseehatchee Creek in present-day eastern Alabama. Lyncoya's parents were killed on November 3, 1813, by troops led by John Coffee at the Battle of Tallushatchee, an engagement of the Creek War and the larger War of 1812. Lyncoya survived the massacre and the burning of the settlement and was found lying on the ground next to the body of his dead mother. He was one of two Creek children from the village who were taken in by militiamen from Nashville, Tennessee. Lyncoya was the third of three Native American war orphans who were transported to Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in 1813-14. The other two, Theodore and Charley, died or disappeared shortly after their arrivals in Tennessee, but Lyncoya survived and was raised in the household of Tennessee militia commander Andrew Jackson, shortly to be commissioned a Major General in the United States Army.
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