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Chief Doublehead's son Birdsong Doublehead, who was twelve years old and living in the Clarks' home at the time of his father's murder, stayed there until his father's estate could be settled, and then Clark took him down to Mussel Shoals Alabama to be with his mother Nancy Drumgoole, last wife of Chief Doublehead. Several related events followed.
Doublehead (1744–1807), one of the most feared warriors of the Cherokees during the Cherokee–American wars; Double heading, the practice of using two locomotives to pull a train; Band head § Double head, a spectral band with two heads; Polycephaly, the condition of having more than one head.
He intended to attack Knoxville. On the way, the Cherokee leaders were discussing among themselves whether to kill all the residents of the settlement, or just the men. Doublehead argued for the former, while James Vann advocated the latter. On the way to Knoxville, the war party encountered the small settlement of Cavett's Station.
Doublehead and his band violated the parole by attacking and killing them all: men, women, and children, as soon as they were outside the small fort. This was over the pleas of Benge, Watts, and James Vann to honor the agreement. Benge never operated again with Doublehead after the incident.
Tahlonteeskee was a Cherokee warrior, and a brother or brother-in-law of Doublehead, a well known Chickamauga Cherokee warrior and follower of Dragging Canoe.Governor William Blount was told by John Watts that Tahlonteeskee was his uncle "of a kind," [citation needed] perhaps denoting a relationship by marriage.
Following the assassination of Doublehead in 1809, the Glass succeeded him as head of the Lower Towns' council and was considered their principal chief. Because Black Fox was acknowledged to be the lawful principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, the local position, along with the Lower Towns' council, was disbanded the next year.
Mount Doublehead is a twin-peaked mountain in eastern New Hampshire, United States. It is located in the town of Jackson , Carroll County , in the eastern White Mountains . North Doublehead has an elevation of 3,053 feet (930.5 m) above sea level, while South Doublehead has an elevation of 2,939 ft (895.8 m).
The latter had promised to spare the post if the three white men who lived there surrendered. But, after the men agreed to surrender, Doublehead changed his mind and ordered that all the inhabitants be killed, including thirteen women and children. This act disgusted The Ridge, who felt it dishonored the tribe. [8]