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There is no reason to doubt the contemporary evidence of the Moravian Journals about the relationships of Catherine McCoy et al. Unless further evidence is found, birth dates of Cherokees before 1800 are only estimates and should be adjusted to fit the available facts. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the National Archives confirm that Qualyuka (Lydia) was the mother of Catherine (Mrs. Andrew Miller), Daniel McCoy was her father, and that George Hicks was Catherine's 1/2 brother.
The Moravian Journals are scheduled to be published next year by the University of Nebraska Press (you can sign up for notice of its publication on their web page). I assisted the editor / translator, Dr. Rowena McClinton, in identifying Cherokees mentioned by the missionaries in their diaries. An earlier translation made for the Georgia Historical Society is somewhat incomplete and inadequate.
Thomas Gann, Catherine's last husband, was a white man employed as an overseer for the James Vann estate. Catherine married Andrew Miller (white), Thomas Fields (Cherokee), and Gann (and perhaps someone named Fergusson).
Miller was killed in 1818 by a white man named William Maney, leaving a number of children and a large estate. Four men wrangled over conrol of Miller's wealth: 1) Col. Baldwin Harle of Jefferson Co., TN (whose wife Isabelle was a sister of Andrew Miller); 2) Walter Carruth (whose wife was a niece of Andrew Miller); 3) George Hicks (1/2 brother of Catherine); and 4) Joseph Crutchfield (white man, a first cousin of Chief James Vann, and husband of Chinossa Halfbreed, sister of Lydia Halfbreed). The Miller kids received very little after these gentlement got through. There are extensive records in the National Archives about Miller's estate.
Many of these folks (including Big Halfbreed and Hannah, who split after the latter was baptised by the missionaries)are also mentioned in another set of diaries kept by Moravians at a second mission school at Oothcaloga, GA. The original records are located in the United Bretheren (Moravian) Archives at Winston-Salem, NC.
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