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Cherokee Chief Dragging Canoe in our tradition abandoned the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals with some of our people, went into southeat Kentucky, and defied the authorities for years. Canoe, Kentucky, in Breathitt County, early Perry County area, is named for Chief Dragging Canoe. redbirdband.bravehost.com

In doing some geneology research, Chief Dragging Canoe comes up in the line of the Martins of Ashe Co., NC and Johnson Co., TN. Britton Jefferson Stewart married Abigail Taylor in 1829 and they had a daughter, Elizabeth Stewart (Stuart). Elizabeth married Alexander Martin and this line came down in Ashe Co., NC. If you run Abigail Taylor's line backwards you come into references to Chief Dragging Canoe.

I am a descendanat of Samuel Quinon, Sr.born in 1762 in Union Co., South Carolina, he married Jane(last name unknowen}, they had a son named Henry Quinton, born 1800 in Union Co. South Carolina. Henry Quinton married Sarah Consene, she was born in Hightower, Georgia and dead sometime around 1839. She gave birth to Peggy Wakee Quinton in 1830, Daniel Quinton,Samuel Henry Quinton, Lewis Quinton, Nathaniel Quinton and John Quinton. Samuel Quinton, Sr. is GreatgreatgreatgreatGrandfather. Check out on line the decendants of Samuel Quinton, Sr. He fought during the revolutionary War. Pension #S32461. So that would make Young Dragging Canoe my fifth greatgrandfather.I am also a Cherokee.

I am related to Dragging Canoe through my grandmother and also related to Daniel Boone through my grandfather.He was descended from Sarah Cassandra.I consider myself very patriotic but the more I see and study our history ,the more ashamed