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Oche-Finceco, also known as Charles Cornells, was a Creek chief and one of the signatories of the 1826 Treaty of Washington.

in his 2001 "The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders
On the Old Southwest Frontier, 1716-1815", Amos Wright records that Cornells, after receiving $10,000 from the federal government, fell into bad company and lost everything. He then hanged himself.

The Georgia governor worked with expansionists to break the treaty, effectively forcing the Creek Nation out of the state in 1827.

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