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Chwe’n,
I have all three plus Brown in my lines(Barnes,Rogers,Brown & Woodards)from Isle of Wight/Southhampton Counties as well as Northampton,Edgecombe/Halifax. Cheroenhaka (Nottoway).
Oo-neh
Mike
Hello Mike!!!
My mother is a Rogers, my greatgrandmother was an Amason, my ggggrandmother was a Woodard and mygggggrandmother was a Barnes. I grew up in Edgecombe County. I am Nottoway too! Wonder how we connect to you? Do you have Sessoms in your lines? or Smith? just curious I have these to and they connect to the Nottoway too…..how about Moores?
Linda
Chwe’n Linda,
I don’t know of any Sessoms in my lines but I do have a Smith whose father was a Jenkins. I don’t know of any Moores either,or Baileys. But Woodards,Rogers and Barnes yes.
Oo-neh
Mike
Mike,
There are Baileys on Nottoway documents and of course Rogers too. The information that the Barnes are Nottoway is new to me since I just discovered my connection although I knew it had to be because we lived right there with the Barnes in Wilson County NC(apparently Edgecombe, Wilson and Nash were “pitstops” for many families but my family stayed there). When did you folks leave that area? and I wonder why too because it is and was an area that was deeply native. The truth is though my folks were trying to fit into the dominant society of the time they simply wanted to survive just like everyone else I guess. Do you descend from Edward Barnes and his wife Sarah Pope?
Linda
Chwe’n Linda,
I’m going to have to look at my Barnes line again, the Nottoway have my genealogy,but I have a copy at home,I’ll look at it tonight. Barnes came to Robeson County also. My people never left the Hertford/Bertie area,they are still there. I live in Robeson County NC though. I’m not saying that the Barnes are Nottoway, my Barnes are Tuscarora. I am Tuscarora/Nottoway. Did you know that Halifax County was part of Edgecombe at one time? You might want to check in Halifax for ancesters too.
Oo-neh
Mike
Chwe’n Linda,
I do have Sessoms in my Wynn line,I was just looking at it. I did not realize this until now. Surry Va,Bertie,Hertford,Chowan,Edgecombe Counties NC.
Oo-neh
Mike
Oh my God Mike I have Wynn in my Sessums line LOL The Sessums go back to the Smith’s…….Sessums married into my Moore line who married into my Etheridge line who married the Pridgens and then my grandmother married a Rogers. The Woodards and Barnes on my Amason line. My greatgrandmother Sue Amasom married my great grandfather Alexander Rogers. You Mike are all over my family tree LOL In 1742 members of my Sessums family were called into court in Bertie County to prove their race (I guess someone called them out). They left Surry(Southampton) already mixed. I know I am Nottoway and pretty sure Tuscarora too.
Linda
Chwe’n Linda,
What is your Wynn line? We may be related.My Barnes line is married to Daniel line,from Edgecombe County N.C.
Oo-neh
Mike
George Wynn and Rose HILL Bush their daughter Mary married Culmer Sessoms son of Thomas Sessoms and Elizabeth Smith. How do your Wynns connect to the Sessoms as I am sure this is the same line I pretty darn sure we are related. Also my Barnes were in Bertie County as well in fact most of my folks were.
Linda
Chwe’n Linda,
My same lines are yours. Do you have more information,Surry County,Bertie County,Edgecombe etc. I really don’t have much on this line and would like to know more. You can email me off forum sometime with the family information and all,I would appreciate that. mdsmokedancer@yahoo.com
Oo-neh
Mike
Mike,
I really do not know alot about this branch of Wynn because my connection was early on. I had assumed they were still “white” when they married into my Sessoms. I did however know that they had became mixed bloods because some of my first cousins mother is a Wynn and she claims native bloodlines and looks to be part native. Mike our folks tried hard to survive and there choice was to join the dominat race of that time they saw this as the way to survive. Although they did this they still taught many native ways through the generations and told us we were native. My family seems to have married people of mixed birth for many generations because mine are some of the strongest bloodlines in the county even with me having a white father. We were told don’t you forget were you come from. When I walk on the land were I grew up I can feel our ancestors there it’s like they want me to remember too. Remember who you are don’t forget us we did what we did for you. The people of Edgecombe County have been called docile and peaceable people. People of solitude and suspicious of outsiders. People who idle away their time with family and friends. It is in those times of idleness that we talk of the past and remember. We are proud and honorable people. We have love and kindness in our hearts we have a deep love of all things native and a respect for the ones who kept the old ways. The older generation believes we cannot go back and grab that which our ancestors walked away from but my generation and the younger one want the world to know who we are. We do not wish to deny our white bloodlines but we want all to know we are native too. We just are you know what I mean Mike?
Linda
Mike,
I am thinking your Barnes are my Barnes too what is the Tuscarora connection because every Barnes i have known in Edgecombe claim indian blood and that is were we married into them. I did find a Barnes who married a Daniel in my family tree so I am thinking we are the same line here too. What do you know about the Woodards? As for the Rogers my ggrandfather was Alexander his father was John and his father was John Adams Rogers he was born around 1814 in NC then I hit a brick wall. Adams is a Tuscarora name isn’t it…as is Rogers but Rogers is also Nottoway. I saw a John Rogers was selling parts of Indian Woods in 1777 I think it was but there was also an Alexander Rogers on the 1808 Nottoway census. But then in 1764 in Edgecombe County a Robert Rogers marries Ann Woods I can’t find a record of his children. In 1790 there was a Jesse, Trusse and Daniel Rogers living close to each other I bet they were brothers. There was a Wiliam and William Jr there too. What is your line with your Robert Rogers?
Linda
Chwe’n Linda,
My Barnes ,comes through Sarah Barnes of Edgecombe County. My Rogers line is from Elizabeth Rogers from Virginia whose father was Robert Rogers from the Southampton County area. There are Rogers among the Tuscarora and Nottoway,but you see both are Iroquois and intermarried. My Daniel line is from Edgecombe and Halifax Counties NC. Halifax was made from Edgecombe. My Wynns married Sessums and then married Dunns.,Hertford County area. My Parkers were from Nansemond County Va,Gates ,Hertford,Bertie,Chowan,Northampton,Granville Counties NC. My Woodards were from VA and NC. The Woodards are Nottoway also. Isle of Wight/Southampton Counties VA and Northampton,Halifax,Edgecombe Counties NC.
Oo-neh
Mike
Yep Mike same Barnes! Ok you are in my Wynn line, my Sessoms line and now my Barnes line. I think that makes us cousins! 🙂 Care to put a bet on the Rogers? LOL and the Woodards? LOL Btw there are many Dunns in Pinetops NC in southern Edgecombe County near the Wilson County line. They are friends of the family. Since you have Sessoms you also have Smith…..these folks came out of what was then Surry Co (but now Southampton). Do you by chance have Grays or Webbs? I have a Gray cousin on this forum who is looking for his roots he lives in Southampton and is ndn too. I have another cousin too a Webb who lives in Florida now but looking for his roots to and well you know he is ndn too both are member of this forum. My Webb cousin sent me an email today from the Tuscarora yahoo group and I see you post there too.
Linda
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