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What do you guys know about the Chikora Indian “Indian Will” or “Chacco Will” who is mentioned in wills of the Jones family in 1721 as living on Great Creek on the north side of the Nottoway River in present Dinwiddie County Va.? What was his connection to the descendants of the Indian trader Peter Jones? How did he come to own land off the Nottoway River that far north?
Dan.
There is this also; Brunswick Co. Va., Will Book 2, 1739-1785, pg. 11, inventory of Captain Robert Hix, TO ONE INDIAN MAN NAMED WILL, 5 March, 1739/40.
Dan.
A possible connection is that when Wm. Byrd gathered the frontier woodsmen for running the line between Virginia and North Carolina, they met at Coratuck (spelled many different ways). Robert Hix was one of these men.
Coratuck (now spelled Currituck in Currituck County NC) had been a Chickora Indian town. This is possibly where and when these men made a relationship with the Chickora.
Dan.
Well, the line was run in 1728. Indian Will was already living off the Nottoway River in 1721. So, that’s not it. Wonder where the main Chikora towns were in 1721?
Dan.
Hey dan well from what I have read the Chikora people were very closely related to the Sispaha people, very interesting given that these people moved away into the swamps of south Carolina, check out some maps etc.
Thanks Tom, I will. Tom, you are always helpful, upbeat and positive as is everyone on this forum. It is greatly appreciated.
From Access Genealogy; Eno Indian Tribal History. “…as Byrd speaks of an old Indian, called SHOCCO WILL LIVING NEAR NOTTOWAY RIVER in 1733, who offered to guide him to a mine on Eno River near the old country of the Tuscarora.”
Dan.
Hi Dan,
Awhile back I transcribed Spotswood’s Treaty with the Saponi’s (“Done and Signed at Williamsburgh the 27th of February 1713”). At the end of it, were four marks. Written beside the marks were:
The mark of Chawco for the Hooutky of the Occoueeckees
The mark of TauheeSoka Hooutky of the Saponies
The mark of MauseeUntky Hoontky of the Totteros
The mark of Nehaurooss For the Hoontky miha of the Stukanoe
The whole treaty is at the link below…
http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=1807
Do you think the Chawco listed above could be the same as the Chacco/Shocco Will that you are looking for?
Stacey
Stacey; He sure could be and probably is. At http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/eno/enohist.htm you will find in 1701 “ENO WILL, a Shakorie by birth, was at the time, according to Lawson, chief of the three combined tribes…” Eno Will was at that time chief at Adshusheer on the Eno River with Adshusheer being 14 miles east of the Occaneechie village. Chief over the Shakorie, Eno, and Occaneechie.
My Greens moved off of the Nottoway River in the 1750’s and settled with the Sizemores on Great Buffalo Creek just a couple miles south of Occaneechie Island on the Roanoke River.
Dan.
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