"Henry Timberlake Story Emissaries of Peace: 1730-1760"

Currently in the works at Seruto & Company, this new touring exhibit for the Museum of the Cherokee Indian was recently awarded a prestigious grant by the NEH.

In the 1760s, an ambitious but naïve Lieutenant Henry Timberlake volunteered to be an emissary and go to a Cherokee village where he recorded his impressions and observations of Cherokee life. After three months in Cherokee country, Timberlake escorted Ostenaco, great Cherokee leader and orator, to the Court of St. James where he met King George III.

He recorded his adventures in journals, which were ultimately published as Henry Timberlake's Memoirs. These writings provide a unique look at 18th-century Cherokee life.