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 1758 - 1837

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• Birth	1758	South Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Died	1837
  Person ID	I40985	Family
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2005
  Father	Daugherty Moses,   b. 1720, VA ,   d. 1820
  Mother	Baldridge Peggy,   b. 1785,   d. 1820
  Family ID	F437	Group Sheet
  Family	MacDaniel Susannah Sookie,   b. 1776, Cherokee Indian Nation, Georgia
  Children	> 1. Daugherty James,   b. 1776, Hightower, Cherokee Nation East, Georgia ,   d. 1830, Cherokee Nation, Georgia (Lumpkin County)
  Family ID	F516	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Half blood Cherokee Indian. Community of Dougherty GA was on the Etowah River at Big Savannah inLumpkin Later Dawson Co. The land they farmed was rich bottom land. 1817 Had 12 acres of bottomland he farmed, 18 acres upland. 1817 Had 15 peach trees, 20 apple trees, one cabin, two cribs, a stablevalued $392 Progenitor of a Cherokee clan known as Dougherty's Notes for JAMES SR. DAUGHERTY: Source: "Cherokee Planter in Georgia 1832-1838", by Don L. Shadburn. Several halfblood Cherokees and a few fullbloods built their homes and farmed at the Big Savannah settlement on the Etowah River, in District 13. James Dougherty (Sr.), halfblood progenitor of the Cherokee clan by that name in upper Georgia, claimed dispossession of 12 acres of bottomland for three years (at $6 per acre per anum) and these improvements: 15 acres of bottomland, 15 acres of upland, an orchard of 15 peach trees and 20 apple trees, one cabin, two cribs, and a stable, with an assessed value of $392.50. Moses Dougherty, another halfblood, (James Sr.'s brother) owned a cabin and seven acres of bottom land, having a combined value of $100.