This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cei.2ACEB/3194.4 Message Board Post: Dr. Emmet Starr was given incorrect information by his informants that Elizabeth Hicks married William Campbell, Eliphus Holt, and James Vann. However, contemporary records of both the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Moravian missionaries show that the wife of these men was Mary (or Polly) Scott, a niece of Charles Renatus Hicks, William Abraham Hicks, Sarah Hicks, and Elizabeth Hicks. Nathan Hicks was a white trader, and his wife (possibly named Nancy Wolf) was a sister of a 1/2 blood named Gun Rod (father of Hair Conrad, Rattlinggoard, Terrapin Head, Young Wolf, and Quatie). This information is from the Moravian diaries at Spring Place, GA. A new translation of these diaries (from German) is scheduled to be published late this year by the University of Nebraska Press. The mother of the Cherokee mixed-blood James Bigby (b. ca.1778) was another sister of Charles et al., but she was unlikely to have been Elizabeth Hicks (b. ca.1770). Bigby's mother also married men named Wilson and Douglas. My guess is that she was named Polly or Mary, a common female name in the Hicks family. Sarah Hicks married Walter Scott (British agent to the Cherokees at the end of the Revolutionary War). Their children were Polly, Peggie (Margaret Ann), Betsey (Elizabeth), and Sally Scott (my ancestor). There were other children of Walter Scott by another unknown Cherokee wife(parents of Richard Scott). Betsey Scott had children by seven husbands, and she and her sister Polly were confusingly identified as Betsey Hicks by Dr. Starr's sources.