Some Stuff

I read on here awhile back that someone was questioning the Hale/Meadows connection, or I should say had shown threads to other forums where this was mentioned, to Native Americans. This Delilah Hale, who married Henry Meadows, is the daughter of my 3rd great-grandparents; Vincent Hale & Jane Morgan. I have yet to uncover all this, but from photos and oral traditons I have heard, along with some genealogy work. There was something there pointing towards an NA connection. The question is, “Was Henry Meadows of NA descent as well?” All still to be researched, but looks to be a good bet that the Hale line, my Hale line, had NA connections.

I have found that my Parker Adkins did marry Bluesky, making me a descendant of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk. Which moves me to the most recent postings on here…

Bowling: My wife is a Bowling descendant tracing back to Pocahontas, as per research from my wife’s uncle with the surname Bowling. No Collins is found, unless not noted, in one genealogy work he sent us back in 1997. Again, I am not sure through which line my wife descends from Pocahontas, but she descends from the Bowling/Caudill (pronounced Caw Dell) line. The work he sent us ends with Simon Baker in England around 1500 A.D. Somehow my wife connects, according to her uncle, to Bowling Baker and Aracoma Cornstalk, which slightly sickens my wife to know she is related to me, very very distantly…but that doesn’t seem to make a difference to her. Ha Ha

In going back to the Adkins, I find it interesting that my Adkins ancestors lived in the same areas as the Powhatan around the same time-frame, or a few years following. One of my ancestors lived in Henrico County, Machumps Creek, and I recently found that Pocahontas also lived in Henrico for most of her life. It means and proves absolutely nothing at this point, but as I said a couple years ago here on this forum, the Chickahominy and the Adkins had to have some sort of connection in that those buried on tribal lands in Virginia not only share the same surname, but the same first names as well. Also factoring in the strange report of a William Adkins asking permission to leave the fort, and to come back without having to put up with ridicule from others, to seek medical treatment from the Pamunkey under queen Cockocoeske.

If anyone here has any inkling on how the Parker and Hunter line might fall into any of the Adkins info above, before and including the 1700’s. I am interested. The Hunter line has nothing to do with my direct line, but could prove to be helpful in unraveling a few things concerning the connection to the Algonquin.

Paselo,

Steve-O