Ee-mat-la, also known as King Phillip, (9 October 1739 – 8 October 1839) was a Seminole chief during the Second Seminole War.
He was captured while camped at Dunlawton plantation, and held at Fort Marion. He died while being transported west in 1839.Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, Jr. The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.
He was "also a very aged chief, who has been a man of great notoriety and distinction in his time, but has now got too old for further warlike enterprize." "The Seminole Longshirt The Seminole Longshirt" 19th Century Seminole Men`s Clothing, M. E. (Pete) Thompson and Rick Obermeyer, NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art
His son was Coacoochee (Wild Cat).
See also
John Caesar (Seminole)
References
External links Ee-mat-la, Catlin sketch, Ayer Art Digital Collection (Newberry Library) Seminolee. 154-156. Ee-mat-la (King Phillip), Ye-how-lo-gee (the Cloud), Co-ee-ha-jo (- - -), three Seminolee warriors w... (1850), NYPL digital library ee-mat-la, George Catlin, Smithsonian American Art Museum Ruins of sugar mill, Dunlawton plantation FLORIDA 32) Dunlawton Plantation Sugar Mill Ruins, National Register of Historic Places Battle of Dunlawton Plantation - Port Orange, FL