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Moytoy I
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Amatoya Moytoy (pronounced mah-tie) "Trader Carpenter"was a Cherokee town chief of the early eighteenth century in the area of present-day Tennessee. His father was a European, Thomas Pasmere Carpenter (Shawnee - "Cornplanter"), who was descended from the noble Anglo-Norman family of Vicomte Guillaume le Carpentier de Melun. Moytoy I is also called Amatoya Moytoy, and Moytoy the Elder. He held a prominent position among the Cherokee, and held the hereditary title Ama Matai (From the French matai and Cherokee ama--water), which meant "Water Conjurer". He lived in one of the Cherokee Overhill Towns sometime between the beginning of the eighteenth century and 1730. He was born around 1640, and probably died in 1730. In 1680, he married Quatsie of Tellico. |
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