He was from the town of Tocktoethla, on the east side of the Chattahoochee River in what is today Seminole County, Georgia.
[3]: 6 His father was Theophilus Perryman, an English trader, and his mother was a Creek woman from the town of Eufaula, also on the Chattahoochee.
[3]: 2 Osceola was the son of William and Polly Copinger, a Creek whose ancestry also included Scottish and African strands.
[1] Another of his daughters married the pirate and adventurer William Augustus Bowles, founder of the short-lived State of Muskogee in Spanish north Florida.
[3]: 74 Perryman died in 1815–1816 and is buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in or near Fairchild Park in Seminole County, Georgia.