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Biography

Lyncoya Jackson was a Creek Indian child sent by American President Andrew Jackson to be raised by his wife Rachel Jackson. Born to Creek parents, he was orphaned during the Creek War following the Battle of Tallushatchee. Lyncoya was brought to the Jackson home, The Hermitage, in 1813. Lyncoya was brought to Jackson after the surviving women in the village refused to care for him. Jackson took pity on the orphan, writing that he felt an "unusual sympathy" for the child, perhaps because of Jackson's own past as an orphan. Lyncoya was educated along with Andrew Jackson's first adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr., and Jackson even had aspirations to send him to the American military academy, West Point, but this proved impossible. Instead, Lyncoya was apprenticed to be a saddle maker until he died of tuberculosis in 1828.

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