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Samuel Mitchell
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Born in 1766,
Born in September of 1766,
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Biography
Samuel ​​Mitchell was appointed US agent for the Chickasaw and Choctaw in 1796, working from headquarters in Choctaw Nation. He married Molly Folsom, a half sister of Choctaw leader David Folsom and daughter of US treaty signer Nathaniel Folsom. In 1799, Mitchell was fired by Mississippi Territory Governor​ Winthrop Sargent, who thought him "a knave and a fool." In 1801, Mitchell was appointed Chickasaw agent, and became first US agent to live among Chickasaw. He was assigned to survey a road negotiated in an 1801 Chickasaw treaty.​​​ For information on his family connections, see his family tree (in "more families") using the link below.
 
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​​Gibson, A.M. The Chickasaws. ​Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

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Pound, Merrit B. Benjamin Hawkins, Indian Agent. ​Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1951.​

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​Wright, Dudley, ed. Gould's History of Freemasonry. ​Vol. 4--6. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.

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Thorne, B. E. David Folsom and the Emergence of Choctaw Nationalism. Thesis, Oklahoma State University, 1988.​

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US Congress. American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States ..., Part 2, Volume 1. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1832​