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J'.IBLIOGRAPIIY OF THE 



Hawkins (B.) — Coutinuod. 



Colonel Beiij. Hawkins, for twenty 

 years resident agent of that Nation. 

 Preceded by a memoir of the anther 

 and a history of the Creek confederacy. 



Published by the Georgia Historical 

 Society. Savannah. 184r3. (*) 



Ip. 1. 88pp. 8^. Title IVoui Sabiu's Dictiouari-, 

 No. 30947, and Fioltl's Essay, No. GG8. 



The Field copy, No. 920, sold for 13.50. 



Extracts from this work, iacliidiiiK a few 

 liuKuistic terms, will bo found in Pickett (A. 

 J.), History of Alabama, Charleston, 18.>1, 12°. 

 (Congress.) And in AVhite (Or.), Statistics of 

 the State of Georjiia, Savannah, 18i9, 8°. (Con- 

 gross.) 



A comparative vocabulary of the 



Muskhogee or Creek, Cliickasaw, 

 Choktaw and Clierokce languages. 

 By the late Col. Benjamin Hawkins, 

 late agent of the United States to the 

 Creek nation, and bj^ him communi- 

 cated lo Mr. .Jefferson. [I/DOf] 



Manusciipt in the library of the American 

 Philosophical Society, Philadelphia; a copy 

 by Diiponceau, forming No. VII of a collection 

 made by him, and occupj'ing pp. 20-41 of a folio 

 account-book. Tlio vocabularies occupy fiiclug 

 pages, the English, Creek, and Chickasaw on 

 theleft, the Clioktaw and Clierokce on th^ight. 

 There are about 300 words and phrases of each 

 language. 



The Cherokee is by Judge Campbell, and 

 was copied by Duponccau from another manu- 

 script in the same library, for comparison. 



" The author was for more than thirty years 

 employed by the Government of the United 

 States in its intciconrse with the Indians. He 

 was styled by the Creeks. Choctaws, Chicka- 

 sixws, and Cherokees the Beloved Man of the 

 Four Nations. He wrote eight volumes of 

 material relating to the history of the vaiious 

 Indian tribes with whom he treated, 'llicso 

 volumosarcfilled witli dctailsof treaties, ^ * ' 

 vocabularies of Indian languages * * * 

 This treatise is filled with sketches of .all these 

 particulars as existing in the Creek Nation." — 

 Field's Essaij, p. 1G2. 



— — Vocabulary of the Cherokee (over 

 hill) and Choctaw Languages. Com- 

 municated to Mr. Jefterson by Col. Ben- 

 jamin Hawkins. [1790?] 



Manuscript in the li )rary of the American 

 Philosopliical Society, Philadelphia; a copy, 

 forming No. VI of a collection by Duponcoau 

 occupying pp. 21-2.J of a folio account book. 

 The vocabulary is arranged in triple columns- 

 English, Cherokee, and Choctaw— and consists 

 of IGO words of each. 



Tlie following extract is from a letter from 

 Washington to Lafiiyotte, which may be found 



Hawkins (B.) — Continued. 



in vol. 9 of Sparks's " Writings of George 

 Wa.shington," Boston, 183.'), jjp. 305-308. 



* * * " I likewise send a shorter specimen 

 of the language of the Southern Indians. It 

 was procui'ed by that ingenious gentleman, Mr. 

 Hawkins, a member of Congress from North 

 Carolina, and lately a commissioner from the 

 United States to tlie Indians of the South. I 

 heartily wish the attempt of that singularly 

 great character, the Empress of Kussia, to form 

 a universal dictionary, may be attended with 

 the merited success." 



Eenj.amin Hawliins, statesman, born in War- 

 ren County, N. C, August 15, 1754; died in 

 Hawkiusville, Ga., .Tune 0, 1810 ; was a student 

 in tlio senior class at Princeton when the Rev- 

 olution began, and his proliciency in modern 

 languages, especially French, caused General 

 Washington to appoint him interpreter be. 

 tweon the American and French ofliccrs of his 

 staff. Hawkins served at the battle of Mon- 

 mouth, and piobably in other engagements, 

 and in 1780 was commissioned to procure aniu- 

 nition and .arms at homo and abroad. * * * 

 Ho was elected by the legislaturi5 to Congress 

 in 1782, iu 1785 was appointed to treat with the 

 Cherokee and Creek Indians, and concluded 

 the treaties of Josephinton and Hopewell. He 

 was reelected to Congress in 1780, and in 1789 

 became one of the two first United States 

 Senators from Norili Carolina. At the expi- 

 ration of his terra in 1797 he was appointed 

 agent for "superintending all Indians south of 

 the Ohio." Although he possessed a largo 

 fortune, he removed to the Creek wilderness, 

 established a settlement, built cabins and mills 

 and manufactured implements. He tendiirod 

 his resignation to each successive President 

 from Washington to Madison, but it was always 

 refused. The city of Ilawkinsville, Ga,, tho 

 headquarters of his station, was named in his 

 honor. His manuscripts are iu the possession 

 of the Georgia Historical Society, and two of 

 thorn, on " Topogr.aphy " and " Indian Charac- 

 ter," have been privately printed. — Applcton's 

 Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



He that toucheth you LChoctaw]. See 

 Wright (A.) and Byington (C.) 



Heeat opouaka * * * Maskoke. See 

 Davis (J.) and Lykins (J.) 



Heiston (T. B.), edilor. See Star Vindi- 

 cator. 



Herrod (Goliah). See Buckner (H. F.) 

 and Herrod ( G. ) 



Goli.ah Heriod was quite an intelligent 

 Creek, one of tho Indian students sent to 

 ".lohnson's Academy " in Kentucky. He was 

 known most widely among his people as a, su- 

 perintendent of public schools .and as an in- 

 teii)reter, chietly in connection with Icev. H. F. 

 Buckner, Y>. D., Baptist, under whom also he 

 worked ,as translator in John's Gospel, a hi'mn- 



