John TATE

  General Notes:

ANCESTRY:
Great grandson of Captain Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand, French commander of Fort Toulouse in Alabama; and Sehoy I, Indian princess of the Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Grand nephew of Red Shoes (Muskogean Chief), Indian Chief of the Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Half-uncle to Alexander McGillivray, Chief of the Upper Creek (Muscogee).

Half-brother to Chief "Red Eagle" (William Weatherford) of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi), the highest ranking tribe of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

His half-nephew was Major David Moniac, an American military officer who in 1822 became the first Native American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.