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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
^ Joe Knetsch (2003).
Florida's Seminole wars, 1817-1858 . Arcadia Publishing. pp. 104–105.
ISBN
978-0-7385-2424-5 .
^
Bruce E. Johansen and
Donald A. Grinde, Jr. The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography , New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.
^
" "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 .
^
"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
External links
Ee-mat-la , Catlin sketch, Ayer Art Digital Collection (Newberry Library)
Seminolee. 154-156. Ee-mat-la (King Phillip), Ye-how-lo-gee (the Cloud), Co-ee-ha-jo (- - -), three Seminolee warriors w... (1850) , NYPL digital library
ee-mat-la, George Catlin, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ruins of sugar mill, Dunlawton plantation
FLORIDA 32) Dunlawton Plantation Sugar Mill Ruins , National Register of Historic Places
Battle of Dunlawton Plantation - Port Orange, FL