Lucretia Parris, halfblood daughter of George Parris and granddaughter of early Cherokee Indian trader Richard Pearis, who died in the Bahamas, April 7, 1794. The Pearis or Parris family is the likely namesake of Parris Island in South Carolina.
There is only one source for Lucretia, a deposition given by a descendant of her half brothers in the claim Dica Lewellan v. Cherokee Nation (28 Aug 1888). In the claim, Polly Parris age 70 states, "I am acquainted with her Aunt Lucretia, Old George Parris' daughter. I got acquainted with her in the State of Georgia and she was said to be a Cherokee. I was also acquainted with a daughter of Lucretia who married a man on the Bayou named David Biggs in Illinois District..." If Polly was able to remember Lucretia and we assume she was at least 9 years old, Lucretia must still have been alive and in Georgia in the late 1820s. We have no record of her removal or who she married after Ignatius or even if she used the Parris surname. It is believed that her relationship with Ignatius Chisholm was short lived as he was in Arkansas not long after his daughter was born and Martha was probably the only child by Lucretia. Ignatius clearly had children with several other Cherokee women.
