One of their leading chiefs was John Watts, who was of mixed blood.

Among all these Southern Indians, half-breeds were far more numerous than among the Northerners, and when the half-breeds lived with their mothers' people they usually became the deadliest enemies of their fathers' race.

Yet, they generally preserved the father's name.

In consequence, among the extraordinary Indian titles borne by the chiefs of the Creeks, Cherokees, and Choctaws--the Bloody Fellow, the Middle Striker, the Mad Dog, the Glass, the Breath--there were also many names like John Watts, Alexander Cornell, and James Colbert, which were common among the frontiersmen themselves.
Fruitless Peace Negotiations.
These Chickamaugas, and Lower Cherokees, had solemnly entered into treaties of peace, and Blount had been taken in by their professions of friendship, and for some time was loath to believe that their warriors were among war parties who ravaged the settlements.

By the spring of 1792, however, the fact of their hostility could no longer be concealed.
Nevertheless, in May of that year the chiefs of the Lower Cherokee Towns, joined with those of the Upper Towns in pressing Governor Blount to come to a council at Coyatee, where he was met by two thousand Cherokees, including all their principal chiefs and warriors.