Pathkiller

Pathkiller,[notes 1] whose tribal name is unknown, fought against the Overmountain Men and Wataugan frontiersmen settled in the Washington District at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

Afterward, he joined with Dragging Canoe and the Chickamauga Cherokee faction fighting in the Cherokee–American wars, until the conclusion of hostilities in 1794.

This Pathkiller may be the one who served as a colonel with the Tennessee militia[1] and fought for Morgan's "Regiment of Cherokees" commanded by Colonel Gideon Morgan under Andrew Jackson, against the Red Stick Indian uprising during the Creek War (October 7, 1813 – April 11, 1814), a frontier extension of the War of 1812.

[3] A description of Cherokee Council sessions was given by the missionary, Ard Hoyt, on a visit to the seat of Cherokee government in October 1818: On entering, I observed the King [Path Killer] seated on a rug, at one end of the room, having his back supported by a roll of blankets.

After the tribe formed a constitutional republic, Ross was elected principal chief in October 1828.