Ee-mat-la, also known as King Phillip, (9 October 1739 - 8 October 1839) was a

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during the

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. He was captured while camped at Dunlawton plantation, and held at

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. He died while being transported west in 1839. 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
/ref> His son was Coacoochee (Wild Cat).

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''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 warrio