Sehoy, or Sehoy I (died ca. 1730), was an 18th-century matriarch of the Muscogee Confederacy and a member of the Wind clan.[1][2]
She established a dynasty that became influential in the political and economic history of her nation and its relationship with the United States.[3] Because inheritance and property within the confederacy were controlled matrilineally in early Muscogee society, her daughters and their descendants became influential in shaping tribal membership and relations with people they enslaved.[3][4] In Muscogee culture, tribal affiliation was defined by clan membership and matrilineal descent. If the mother was part of a tribe, her children would also be part of that tribe, regardless of the father's ethnicity or citizenship.[5]
Some of her male descendants shaped policy with the United States through treaty-making[6][7] and through tribal leadership.[8][9]
Sehoy, or Sehoy I (died ca. 1730), was an 18th-century matriarch of the Muscogee Confederacy and a member of the Wind clan. She established a dynasty...
Sehoy III, also called Sehoy Weatherford (c. 1750 – c. 1815) was a Muscogee Creek trader who was part of the Sehoy matrilineage. Like her mother and grandmother...
Sehoy II or Sehoy Marchand (b. c. 1722) was a Muscogee Creek Wind Clan woman who was part of the Sehoy matrilineage. She and her family are known for their...
Hickory Ground (current Wetumpka, Alabama).[citation needed] His mother was Sehoy III, a "daughter of a Tabacha chieftain" and from "the most powerful and...
high-status Creek woman named Sehoy Marchand. Their marriage was recognized by the Creek. Early biographers claimed Sehoy Marchand was the daughter of...
children with Sehoy, a daughter of the matrilineal Wind Clan of the Creek Nation, during his time in Alabama: Chief Red Shoes (1720 d. 1784) and Sehoy II Marchand...
present-day Montgomery, Alabama, in 1750. Alexander's mother, Sehoy Marchand, was the daughter of Sehoy, a mixed-race Creek woman of the prestigious Wind Clan...
wrote that Sehoy Marchand, who was the sister of Chief Red Shoes of the Tuskegee people, was the daughter of Sehoy (also known as Sehoy I) of the Wind...
Muscogee Principal Chief Alexander McGillivray. McGillivray was the son of Sehoy II, a Muscogee woman of the Wind Clan, and Lachlan McGillivray, a wealthy...
DeCourtel Marchand married the high-status Creek woman Sehoy in about 1720. Later generations of Sehoy's descendants include the Creek chiefs Alexander McGillivray...
The most prominent were Alexander McGillivray (1750–1793), the son of Sehoy II, a Wind Clan mother, and Lachlan McGillivray; and William Weatherford...
The son of a Scotsman, Lachlan McGillivray, and half-Creek woman named Sehoy Marchand of the Wind clan, Alexander studied in Charleston before the Revolutionary...
Milfort, Sojourn, Rootsweb[dead link] Afterthoughts About: The Three Sehoys, Sehoy: A Community in Daphne, Alabama - Official Website Index of French Generals...
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