This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Durouzeaux, Rousseau, Micajah Dean( also may be an indian, and last seen in St. Augustine, Florida around 1840. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5R.2ADI/898.1.1.4 Message Board Post: Would love to correspond with the person who wrote the book on :Wm McIntosh". I just found a website with information on "Indian Chiefs". THis is what it said abour-CHILLY McINTOSH- A creek Chief. After his brother, WILLIAM, was slain by MENEWA for having betrayed the CREEKS by "selling the graves of their ancestors, he became the head of the minority party that acquiesced in the proposed emigration to INDIAN TERRITORY. As such he frequently visited WASHINGTON to treat with officials regarding the transfer of lands and acquitted himself as a capable man of business.--Stanley, Portrates American Indians, 13 (Vol.?) 1852. Another note: The war of 1818 in Florida known in history as the First Seminole War, was fought almost soley by friendly indians under General William McIntosh against the Red Stick Creeks and Seminoles under Peter McQueen. There was very little fighting done by the Americans. The most notable fight was on 12 April, 1818, at ECONFINNAH, in which McQUEEN was defeated with the loss of thirty-seven men killed, and six men and ninety-seven woman and children capture cattle. (This is not copied wrong-this is how it is stated in the article) McINTOSH's loss was three men killed and founr wounded. At the close of the FLORIDA war McQueen took refuge on a barren island on the Atlantic side of Cape Florida, where he soon after died.... (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/(in this spot is a wavy dash which I can't seem to find on my computer)cmamcrk4/crkch2.html Hope this helps. I am searching for the wife of James Durouzeaux/Deriso who was an Indian Woman, believed to have been of the WInd Clan. Also the birth of William Henry Rousseau on 9 March 1818. Believe it to be in Indian Territory even tho family tradition states "in or near Macon, Georiga. I am searchinf for his fahter believed to have been John Rousseau/Durouzeaux, etc. His mother married secondly Samuel Barber who was born in NC or poss SC. Thank you for any help you might have. Elizabeth ROusseau Godfrey elizabethl377@adelphia.net