Description
Nikkanochee was a Seminole boy who was caught by American soldiers during fighting in northern Florida in 1836. He was brought to London in July 1840 by Andrew Welch, an English doctor who had adopted him. Welch believed him to be Osceola’s nephew. After 18 months in England, Welch arranged for Nikkanochee to attend Mill Hill Grammar School and he remained there for two and a half years as a “favourite of all the scholars.” Welch subsequently apprenticed him to a ship captain bound for Australia. Nikkanochee ran away upon landing and never contacted Welch again. It is unclear what happened to him.
Bibliographic sources
James Leitch Wright,Creeks and Seminoles: The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 317. For details on his time at Mill Hill Grammar School, see James Sherman, A Pastor’s Wife: A Memoir of Mrs. Sherman of Surrey Chapel. By her husband. (London: Charles Gilpin, 1848), 257.