Cherokee Chief Major Ridge acquired the title "Major" in 1814, during his service leading the Cherokee alongside the United States General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend during the Creek War against the Red Sticks. ... He developed a plantation, owned 30 African-American slaves as laborers, and became a wealthy planter.Prominent Cherokee slaveowners included the families of Joseph Lynch, Joseph Vann, Major Ridge, Stand Watie, Elias Boudinot, and Principal Chief John Ross.
Built by Joseph Vann's father, James, the The Chief Vann House still stands near Chatsworth, GA. Before the main Cherokee Removal to Oklahoma Territory began, in 1837, Joseph Vann voluntarily moved his whole family and slaves there before the Trail of Tears started. He had his slaves build an identical replacement for this house in Oklahoma. He died in 1844 when one of the boilers blew up on one of his Stream boats that he was piloting on the Mississippi River.
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