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Ee-mat-la

Ee-mat-la, also known as King Phillip, (9 October 1739 - 8 October 1839) was a Seminole chief during the Second Seminole War.

He was captured while camped at Dunlawton plantation, [1] and held at Fort Marion. He died while being transported west in 1839. [2]

He was "also a very aged chief, who has been a man of great notoriety and distinction in his time, but has now got too old for further warlike enterprize." [3] [4]

His son was Coacoochee (Wild Cat).

References

  1. ^ Joe Knetsch (2003). Florida's Seminole wars, 1817-1858. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 104–105. ISBN  978-0-7385-2424-5.
  2. ^ Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, Jr. The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.
  3. ^ ""LETTER—No. 57". Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, George Catlin, (First published in London in 1844)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
  4. ^ "The Seminole Longshirt The Seminole Longshirt" 19th Century Seminole Men`s Clothing, M. E. (Pete) Thompson and Rick Obermeyer, NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art

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