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Lt. Richard Henry Timberlake1730 - 1765
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Artistic representation of Lt. Henry Timeberlake (1730–1765), colonial Anglo-American officer, journalist, cartographer and author of The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake, is best known for his work as an emissary to the Overhill Cherokee during the 1760s. He was born in Virginia in 1730 and died in England.

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 archeological 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 major Overhill village sites.

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National Park Service hosts Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee & British Delegations exhibit at Fort Necessity National Battlefield April thru December 2012. Emissaries of Peace has been on display at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and at the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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