Early Life
Chief William McIntosh, Jr.
was born the son of a Scottish Captain in the British Tory Army around
the time of the American Revolutionary War and a native Creek Indian
woman belonging to the influential Wind Clan of the Creek Nation.
Treaty Negotiations
During his lifetime, the chief would be directly and indirectly
involved in many treaties negotiated on behalf of the State of Georgia,
the U.S. Government, and the Creek Nation as well as military
engagements brought about in some cases as a result of those
associations.
At one of these treaty negotiations, he made a
trip to Washington, D.C., where he met and talked with then President
Thomas Jefferson on behalf of the Creek Nation while standing in for an
ailing Speaker of the Creeks. He made a favorable impression on
Jefferson and helped to further the view that he was well versed in the
politics of both worlds, native and non-native.