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Henry was born in Hanover County, Va. in 1730. He was the son of Francis and Sarah (Austin) Timberlake, and the grandson of Joseph Timberlake who emigrated from England to Virginia.
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Published in 1765, these are memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake, who accompanied Cherokee Indians to England. Also includes his observations of the Cherokee Indians in general.
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Lt. Henry Timberlake's Memoirs provide the most detailed account of Cherokee life in the eighteenth century. Timberlake visited the Cherokee Overhill towns for three months in 1761-62 and accompanied three Cherokee leaders to London to meet with King George III and other political figures. He died in September 1765, around the time the Memoirs were originally published. This first modern edition of Timberlake's Memoirs is abundantly illustrated with portraits, maps, and photographs of historical, archaeological, and reproduced artifacts, bringing a new dimension to Timberlake's rich portrayal. Assembled for an exhibit produced by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, this collection of period artifacts, artwork, and traditional items made by contemporary Cherokee artists is a stunning representation of the material culture--both native and British--of the French and Indian War period. A detailed introduction and extensive editorial notes help interpret this 250-year-old chronicle for the modern reader, drawing heavily from historical research and archaeological investigations of the last half-century while still including insights offered by Samuel Cole Williams in the original American version published in 1927.
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Henry was born in Hanover County, Va. in 1730. He was the son of Francis and Sarah (Austin) Timberlake, and the grandson of Joseph Timberlake who emigrated from England to Virginia.
He received a fairly adequate education.
He joined the Patriot Blues for the campaign of 1756 against the French and Indians under George Washington.
In 1758 he was appointed to a cornetcy of horse in the regiment of William Byrd III and was in the John Forbes campaign against the French at Fort Duquesne. He served in 1759 under John Stanwix, who placed him in command of Fort Burd, or Fort Necessity, in Pennsylvania.
In the spring of 1761 he was ordered to join the regiment of Colonel Byrd against the Cherokee, then besieging the British Fort Loudoun on Little Tennessee River, and he marched with Adam Stephen to the Holston River.
After the peace of November 19, 1761, the Cherokee requested that an officer visit them, and Timberlake, then an ensign, volunteered for this mission, to be accompanied by Thomas Sumter. The twenty-two-day journey to the Indian towns was made by skiff down the Holston and up the Little Tennessee. Timberlake made notes of the courses of these rivers and executed an excellent map of the streams, showing, also, the locations of the towns of the Overhill Cherokee. After three months with the Cherokee, they returned to Virginia, where they were placed in charge of Outacity and two of his warriors to make a visit to England. In London the Indians drew large crowds to see them, the aristocracy included. Entertained sumptuously at Vauxhall Gardens and other leading resorts, the Cherokee and the two young Virginians were admitted to audience by the King.
Timberlake is said to have received a lieutenant's commission as a reward for his services.
He returned to Virginia. In 1764 he conducted overseas a second group of Cherokee warriors. Falling into financial difficulties, he sought to recoup by writing and publishing the Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake, which was published in London in 1765. There he recorded his experiences in the French and Indian War and his observations of the customs and ceremonies of the Cherokee. The book ever since its appearance has been considered by ethnologists as dependable source material. A German translation appeared in J. T. Köhler's Sammlung neuer Reise-Beschreibungen, vol. I, pt. 2 (1769), and a French translation by J. B. L. J. Billecocq was published in Paris Voyages du lieutenant Henri Timberlake (1796); the poet Robert Southey drew largely from the book in the preparation of his epic, Madoc (1805). Timberlake died in London, seemingly before his book came from the press, certainly before he could have profited from its sale.
Henry Timberlake is best known for his work as an emissary from the British colonies to the Overhill Cherokee during the 1761–1762 Timberlake Expedition. Timberlake's account of his journeys to the Cherokee, published as his memoirs in 1765, became a primary source for later studies of their eighteenth-century culture. His detailed descriptions of Cherokee villages, townhouses, weapons, and tools have helped historians and anthropologists identify Cherokee structures and cultural objects uncovered at modern archaeological excavation sites throughout the southern Appalachian region. During the Tellico Archaeological Project, which included a series of salvage excavations conducted in the Little Tennessee River basin in the 1970s, archaeologists used Timberlake's Draught of the Cherokee Country to help locate important Overhill village sites. Timberlake's Memoirs remains one of the best contemporary accounts of the 18th-century Cherokee.
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He married in London.
Timberlake had one child, a son, Richard Timberlake, by one of Ostenaco's daughters, Sakinney.
