about ninety
years of age at his home in the eastern part of the Cherokee Nation,
adjoining the Seneca reservation. The name figures prominently in
the early history of North Carolina and Georgia. His grandfather,
Colonel Wafford, was an officer in the American Revolutionary army,
and shortly after the treaty of Hopewell, in 17S5, established a colony
known as " Watford's settlement," in npper Georgia, on territory which
was afterward found to be within the Indian boundary and was acquired
by special treaty purchase in 1801. His name is appended, as witness
for the state of Georgia, to the treaty of Holston, in 1794. ' On his
mother's side Mr Wafford was of mixed Cherokee, Natchez, and white
blood, she being a cousin of Sequoya. He was also remotely con-
nected with Cornelius Dougherty, the first trader established among
the Cherokee.In the course of his long life he tilled many positions
of trust and honor among his people. In his youth he attended
the mission school at Valleytown under Reverend Evan Jones, and
just before the adoption of the Cherokee alphabet he finished the
translation into phonetic Cherokee spelling of a Sunday school speller
noted in Pilling' s Iroquoin Bibliography. In 1821 he was the census
enumerator for that district of the Cherokee Nation embracing upper
Hiwassee river, in North Carolina, with Nottely and Toccoa in the
adjoining portion of Georgia. His fund of Cherokee geographic
information thus acquired was found to be invaluable. He was one of
the two commanders of the largest detachment of emigrants at the
time of the removal, and his name appears as a councilor for the western
Nation in the Cherokee Almanac for 1846.