[a] Uchee Billy's band was living near Lake Miccosukee when Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish Florida during the First Seminole War and attacked the villages in the area.
[2][b] After Andrew Jackson's troops raided the Mikasuki villages in 1818, the Yuchi led by Uchee Billy moved east to the St. Johns River area.
[2] Uchee Billy's band was shortly afterward persuaded to leave Spring Garden by a white settler[6] and moved to a place southwest of the St. Johns River.
[10] A party under the leadership of Uchee Billy killed a member of a plantation family in January, causing the remaining white residents of the area to evacuate to St.
[12] Uchee Billy was captured by Brigadier General Joseph Hernandez, commander of the East Florida Militia, on the night of September 10, 1837.
[13] One U.S. soldier, 20-year-old Lieutenant John Winfield Scott McNeil, nephew of Franklin Pierce,[14] was killed during the capture of Uchee Billy.
Weedon was also the attending physician for Osceola, whom he decapitated after his death at Fort Moultrie in South Carolina, and kept his head in a jar of preservative.