Chickasaw Empire: the Story of the Colbert Family
Wendy Lynn Harrison'southward Family:Information well-nigh Susan Colbert
Susy Susan Colbert (b. 1770, d. Sep 1837)
Notes for Susan Colbert:She married twice. She married James B. Allen in Chickasaw Nation, MS, circa 1790.(154) (James B. Allen is #915.) James was born in NC. (Additional notes for James B. Allen(155)) James died 1835 in Toccopola, MS. His body was interred 1835 in Toccopola, MS. He was listed as a resident in the demography study in Chickasaw Nation, MS, 1818.(156) James was baptized at in Monroe Mission, Pontotoc Co., MS, 6 JUL 1828. Faith: religion unknown.(157) He was listed every bit a resident in the census report in Monroe Co., MS, 1830.(158) James Allen was a Due north Carolinian, well educated and of a family in easy circumstances. He came to Nashville, intending to settle at that place as a lawyer, but from some disgust, entered the Chickasaw Nation, where he presently conciliated the favor of a wealthy half-breed, Full general William Colbert, (the son of Scotsman James Logan Colbert and a Chickasaw Indian woman). Allen married his daughter Susie. Their girl, Peggy, was very beautiful and she married a handsome young man from the neighborhood of Natchez.
There is much confusion about this mans first name. Several sources refer to him every bit "James", (i.east., Don Martini in his works), others refer to him as "John". The court records refer to him as "John", (Monroe Co., MS - Fisher five. Allen - the famous case involving the gift of the slave "Toney" by Allen'due south wife, Betsy Beloved, to their daughter.)
It would appear that this "John Allen" was not in fact the same "John L. Allen" who was a sub-amanuensis for the Chickasaws, due to some records that would indicate that the sub-agent "Allen" was alive after the reported death date for this "Allen". (However, there always remains the possibility that these are the same people who merely had more than one married woman.)
In Don Martini's book, "Southeastern Indian Notebook", which was written several years after his "Chickasaw" book, he has now changed his position that at that place were two "James Allens". He now states:
"James Allen, a native of North Carolina and reputedly at 1 time a lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee, arrived in the Chickasaw Nation sometime earlier 1793. By 1797, he was married to Susan Colbert, the youngest girl of trader James Colbert, [James Logan Colbert], and two years subsequently their girl, Peggy, was baptized by missionary Joseph Bullen. Allen was too married in 1797 or 1798 to Betsy Dear, daughter of trader Thomas Love."
It should be noted that Martini also stated in the above paragraph that Susy Colbert was the youngest daughter of James [Logan] Colbert, where about other authorities signal she was the girl of Gen. William Colbert.
Part of this confusion may likewise lie in the fact that Margaret Colbert, a girl of Gen. Colbert did marry John Fifty. Allen, the Chickasaw sub-agent.
Farther, in the same "Notebook", Martini states that Susy Perry Colbert was probably the girl of Joseph or Samuel Colbert, brothers to Major James Colbert, (who was the youngest of James Logan Colbert's sons), and that she was adopted by Major James Colbert, equally obviously it is believed that both Joseph and Samuel died early on.
What is overlooked by Martini is the entry in the Monroe Co., Mississippi, "Susan Perry, Yalobusha Co., Mississippi, to daughter Margaret Burney of the Chickasaw Nation, slaves. February ix, 1825."
[Plural marriages was certainly consistant with Chickasaw Tribal Constabulary at that time, and many a white trader took reward of that fact.]
She married ??? Perry before 1818. (??? Perry is #19411.)
She was listed every bit a resident in the census report in Chickasaw Ringlet, Chickasaw Nation, MS, 1818. Susan registered to pay taxes in Yalobusha Co., MS, 1834-1835.(159) She sold property in Yalobusha Co., MS, 9 February 1835.(160) She was listed every bit a resident in the demography study in Tax List, Yalobusha Co., MS, 1835. She bought property in Yalobusha Co., MS, 9 FEB 1836.(161) She was listed as a resident in the census study in Yalobusha Co., MS, 1840. She bought property in MS, 22 MAY 1843.(162) The reserve was suspended later in 1843.
She was listed as a resident in the 1847 census report in IT, 1847.(163) She was listed as a total blood over the age of 50.
She resided in IT 15 NOV 1848.(164) There seems to be some confusion over simply who was Susan Colbert'southward parents. Some sources point that she was the daughter of General William Colbert and his married woman Mimey. Other sources point she was the daughter of either Joseph or Samuel Colbert and after adopted by their blood brother Major James Colbert, the youngest son of James Logan Colbert. While even so other sources indicate that she was the youngest girl of James Logan Colbert, himself.
Jonathan Daniels in his book, "The Devil's Backbone - The Story of the Natchez Trace," refers to "Peggy" Allen, (who married Simon Burney), as the "great-granddaughter" of James Logan Colbert. Besides stating that she was the daughter of Susie Colbert and James Allen.
Don Martini in his volume, "Chickasaw Empire - The Story of the Colbert Family," at page 15 states, "Susan Colbert, youngest of the Helm'southward [James Logan Colbert] children, took for a husband one James Allen, a white homo, bore him a girl named Peggy Allen, and disappeared from history in 1800." Later, on page 41, Martini states that Susan Colbert plain died near 1800.
There does exist in the Monroe Co., Mississippi records the following; "Susan Perry, Yalobusha Co., Mississippi, to daughter Margaret Burney of the Chickasaw Nation, slaves. Feb 9, 1825."
Margaret (Allen) Burney was most often refered to every bit "Peggy," ("Peggy" is a well known nickname for Margaret), and was the daughter of Susan Colbert and James Allen. Margaret married Simon Burney.
Therefore, it is non as Martini states "axiomatic that Susan (Colbert) Allen died in 1800," every bit she must have been live in 1825, and living in Yalobusha Co., Mississippi.
There are three things to be noted from the testify we at present have; first, Yalobusha Canton, while on the edge line of the Chickasaws and Choctaws in Mississippi, was considered Choctaw land. 2nd, the above cited record gives Susan's concluding name as "Perry" and not "Allen". 3rd, James Allen had by 1798 married to Betsy Honey, daughter of trader Thomas Honey. I recall it may be fairly like shooting fish in a barrel to speculate from these three items that something happened to the marriage of James Allen and Susie Colbert. That Susie (Colbert) Allen married a man named Perry and moved to near, if non in the Choctaw Nation.
At that place were a number of prominent Perry's in the Choctaw Nation and I believe that Susie (Colbert) Allen married one of them. Since we know that she was alive in 1825, merely there appears to be no Susie Perry listed on the 1818 Census of the Chickasaw Nation in Mississippi, then information technology is quite likely that the reason is that she married a Choctaw Perry. (Actually at that place is a Susy Perry listed with the Colbert family on the 1818 Census and I now believe that she may exist the aforementioned person, possibly she was a "Perry" widow by 1818?)
Martini, in "Chickasaw Empire," tells of the distitute position Susan'due south brother James Colbert forund himself in 1830, and about how he was trying to get back the slaves that he had inherited from his male parent James Logan Colbert, but had given or sold to a number of his friends or relatives. Listed among those friends or relatives was Benjamin Honey, who had married Charlotte Burney (a granddaughter of young James Colbert's sister Susan), David Burney (a brother of Charlotte's), Simon Burney (the father of Charlotte and David, likewise equally the husband of Margaret "Peggy" Allen), and "Susan Perry", John Perry, and Joseph Perry.
It is quite possible that the slaves held past the Burney'southward and Benjamin Love, were among the slaves given to Margaret (Allen) Burney past her mother Susie (Colbert) Perry. Likewise, it entirely probable that the "Susan Perry" listed in the higher up "friends and relatives list" is the same person every bit "Susan (Colbert) Perry".
1 other notation should be made, the 1818 Chickasaw Census does list every bit an apparant member of the house concur, (and kid of?), of James Colbert, Susan's brother, an individual named "Susy Perry Colbert," perhaps named after his sis? Very probably though the same person?
More Most Susan Colbert:
Engagement born 2: Abt. 1770
Engagement born 3: 1770, Chickasaw It, Pontotoc, MS, United states of america. 43
Engagement built-in iv: 1798 43
Died 2: 1848, Chickasaw It, Pontotoc, MS, Us. 43
Died 3: 1848, Chickasaw It, Pontotoc, MS, Us. 43
More About Susan Colbert and James B Allen:
Marriage 1: Abt. 1790, Chickasaw Nation.
Wedlock two: 1790, Chickasaw Indian Territory, MS, Us. 43
Children of Susan Colbert and James B Allen are:
- +Margaret Peggy Allen, b. Abt. 1790, d. 1857, Indian Territory.
Source: https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/a/r/Wendy-L-Harrison-OK/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0233.html
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