1.HOPAIE m. HANNAH HALE
In Swans, Early history of the Creek Indians, he gives the Okchai Indians as a seperate Tribe from the other Tribes in the Musgogee Federation. They spoke a seperate and distinct language. The Fish Pond Indians were a branch of Alabama that had mixed with the Okchai. After the 1813 War many of these towns broke up. When the 1832 Census was taken all the Indians went to their mother towns to be counted. At this time Autauga (Autangee) was the mother town of the Alabama where the Hale's went to be counted. This indicating that Hopia was of the Alabama Tribe.
During the American Revolution a part of the Creek Nation joined with the British to fight the Americans. Hannah Hale was taken captive. A Chief of Fish Ponds (Thlot-lo-agalgua) called Hopaie (Far Off) claimed her. In 1796 Hannah Hale gave a statement to Benjamin Hawkins, American Indian Superintendent, that she was taken from near Rogers Fort on the Ogeechee River in Georgia. She gave her age at that time as 11 or 12. In 1797 she had 3 girls and 1 boy, and by 1799 she had another boy giving her 5 children.
At the council held in 1799 at Tuckabatchee Benjamin Hawkins told her she was free to leave the Nation, but she elected to remain with her family. Hawkins reported that two of the girls could spin and weave. Hannah had acquired some property, one or two horses, sixty cattle, and some hogs. She had orchards of Peach and Apple trees, and had pruchased a Negro boy.
In 1816 John E. Miles, Guardian of the Heirs, filed a petition in Congress which said Hannah was deceased. It is very possible that the hostile Indians killed her when they destroyed her property. Mr. Miles ask for indemnity for 70 head of cattle, 2 horses, 45 hogs, 16 acres of ripe corn in the field, household furniture, plantation tools, one feather bed, one loom, and one house. He reported the value at $1356.00.
To view Documents click hereThe names of two of the girls has never been found. One was named Jane and called Jennie. One is thought to be Polly. The boys were David and Samuel. By the Treaty of 1814 the Indians who remained loyal to the Americans during the 1813 War receive Federal Land Grants. In 1817 David and Samuel received Section 21, Township 6, Range 5, which was on the West side of Alabama River. In 1836 they sold the north west and north east quarters of the section to Adam Carson. This sale was documented in Monroe County, Alabama. Also in 1836, they sold the southwest and south east quarters to John E. Newman. This sale was documented in Macon County, Alabama.
The 1832 Indian Census taken at Autauga list David and Samuel with their families. During the movement west David died at Pass Christian Mississippi in August of 1837 while waiting for the boat to transport them to New Orleans to catch another vessel up the Mississippi River to Arkansas.
Name explanations:It is highly probable that Hannah's first child was born within two years after her capture at age 13 or 14. In 1796, at the first recording of her existance, the two oldest daughters would have been between 16 and 18 years old, and probably had husbands.
Children:
dau. of Hannah b. Fish Pond
dau. of Hannah b. Fish Pond.
Jane (Jennie) Hale b. Fish Pond
David Hale b. Fish Pond
Samuel Hale b. Fish Ponds, m. Rebecca _____.
Samuel died 1840, Macon Co. Ala.