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The BEVINS MORRIS located on the Dagsboro Hundred tax lists for 1785 is intimately connected to the STATON/STAYTON/STAUTON family that lived in the nearby area. According to the ancestral chart provided by Kerry on this list, his STATON line is connected to line of Nehemia Staton and this Bevin/ “Be ayens†Morris. See Kerry’s post. http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=9678&highlight=STATON#post9678 )
Bevins Morris’s daughter, SARAH MORRIS, was the spouse of NEHEMIA STATON (b.1726 DE). If (…?) Kerry’s chart is correct in the key details, then his relatives buried in BFCemetary are direct descendants of the STATONS that were living near Blackfoot town over two hundred years ago. Among other things, given the BF ID in both areas (DE and IN), this would indeed be strong evidence of an actual migration of some BFIs from Delaware to Southern Indiana.
Bess Veney
Bess,
I traced the Marvel family to Gibson County, IN by finding them through a Blackfoot ID and if Lynella or Kerry can trace their Ricketts to the Ricketts in BF cemetery, we have two more and even three, because the Ricketts lived near my Sinkeys and intermarried.
I found the first family by searching for Blackfoot on the miscellaneous forum of genforum. There are several families with an eastern Blackfoot story there.
Techteach
Bess, Cindy, others — Brenda Sampsel found that Wayland near the Conoy Town — I am not sure how close that is to Blackfoot Town.
I have found Kersey’s & Lowry’s in Robeson and Bertie Co, NC. Didn’t yall say those surnames were in/near Blackfoot Town, Md/De?
My Richey’s/Wood’s/Dickson’s were near that Blackfoot Church, in Indiana (a Richey is in that cemetery) and a “Day” and a “Mounts” both married into my Wood family there in Gibson Co., Indiana. Were those Mounts in Blackfoot town? Where were they? Somebody recently mentioned them. My Richey’s went to Arkansas and there married a Wayland.
Someone mentioned a Blackfoot Town in Arkansas and I wanna look at the census records of the county that was in. Piankashaw and Shawnee were in the boothill of Missouri, and my Waylands were just a county south of there in N. Arkansas, but on the same river. I wonder if this is the same Piankashaw/Shawnee driven from Gibson Co., In in 1803?
There were definitely many Eastern Siouan surnames in Gibson County. I just found that book “History of Gibson County, Indiana” — Here’s an excerpt from it —
CHAPTER II.
INDIAN OCCUPANCY-OTHER RACES.
Before the pioneer white settlers invaded the green glad solitude of what is now known as Gibson county, the red man inhabited this territory. The Indians who roamed at will over the hills and valleys of this region were made up from remnants of several tribes, including the Shawnee, Sacs, Fox, Kickapoo, Miami and Pottawatomies. Of the Shawnee, old “Trackwell” was a noted chief. He had a village of several wigwams located on Indian creek, about two miles northeast of where Princeton is located. The Miamis had a fort on the Patoka river and claimed ownership to a portion of the territory . . .
. . . In 1838 Colonel Pepper and General Tipton, with an escort of United States soldiers, conducted about one thousand Pottawatomies to the west of the Mississippi river, western Iowa getting many of the tribe, and later these were induced to move or, to the southwestern territories. A few, however, of both tribes lingered around their old haunts and hunting grounds, refusing to be consoled at their loss. But after white men commenced gathering in thicker settlements, they, too, sought the sinking sun and joined their brethren in the western country above named.
end of excerpt from book
It doesn’t the Potawatomies or Miamas were in Gibson Co in 1838, tho, that part just implies they were in Indiana. But the tribes mentioned in the first part were definitely in Gibson Co., and they would have been there in the 1790s when that Blackfoot Church was originally built.
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Brenda,
In your list of names, (i.e. – “It is impossible to follow the numerous families who were early settlers in the hundred, but the following list of taxables made in the year 1785, shows clearly who were residents of the hundred at that time,…”) there appears several surnames which I know to be Indian. They are BIVANS, SOCKAM, SALMON(S)/SAMMONS and, WEST.
As I recall BIVANS/BEVANS and WEST (along with JACOBS) appears on a map of the Gingaskin Indian Reservation on the eastern shore of Virginia in one of Dr. Helen Rountree’s books. The surname SOCKAM (as well as PUCKHAM) is mentioned by Dr. Rountree as well as by Paul Heinegg. The name SAMMONS is common among the current day Nanticoke Tribe of Delaware. In fact, I worked with and was friends with a SAMMONS man some years ago.
Now, what’s really interesting to me is that the name of my direct ancestor appears on that list; ABRAHAM JACOBS. However, my ABRAHAM JACOBS first appears in the New Hanover County, NC tax records circa (and I’m going on memory here) 1780. He was a Revolutionary War soldier and is the common ancestor for numerous Coharie families. Soooo, while I’m fairly certain that my ABRAHAM JACOBS is a different ABRAHAM JACOBS than appears on the 1785 list of Dagworthy Hundred taxables, I’m not at all convinced that the latter Jacobs was a white man. In fact, I’d bet that both (one?) ABRAHAM JACOBS were related in one way or another.
Why might they be related? Well, the exact same name for one thing, even though that’s probably a weak case. But my theory for quite a while has been that about the time of the French and Indian War (say, 1754 to say, 1760), numerous Indian reservations in Maryland, Virginia, and NC “dried up.” That is to say, there appears to have been a huge out-migration from those reservations such that by about 1776 and the time of the Revolutionary War they no longer existed – the land having been completely taken over by white landowners.
So, having been dispossed of their towns, hunting lands, tribal ways and customs, where did they go? Personally, I think many acculterated themselves to their white and black neighbors and followed the sons and daughters of their white neighbors to the frontiers.
Dr. Rountree lists numerous reservations which “dried up.” I can’t remember all of them, but two, Tundotank, and Cottmans’ Town sit on the present day spot where Salisbury, Maryland is now situated (and where several white families of BREWINGTONs had plantations – BREWINGTON is the most common name among the Coharie.)
Dr. Rountree documents other Indian Reservations/Towns which “dried up.” There was a town exactly situated where present day Snow Hill, Maryland is, along the Pocomoke River. Another was Manokin Town (where my REVELL ancestor first appears) – once again on the site of the present day town of Princess Anne, Maryland. There was another Indian reservation/town set aside for the Nanticoke Indians by the Maryland General Assembly in the late 1600’s along the Choptank River. The name of the Indian town/reservation was Chicone. Once again, the present day town of Vienna, Maryland now sits on the exact spot where Chicone once sat.
Now, all those Indian reservations/towns were all loosely associated with the Nanticoke Indians (the most powerful tribe on the eastern shore of Maryland … or, more correctly, on the entire Delmarva pinnensula [ sp? ]). AND, all those towns were easily within one to two day’s travel to Blackfoot Town (Dagsworth, Delaware). Just look at the map. I used to live in Salisbury from 1972 to 1974 and all these towns are within a 15 to 40 mile arc from Blackfoot Town. I have no doubt that there was communication between all the Indian towns/reservations.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Indian Woods Reservation in Bertie County, NC. It’s where the Tuscarora (and the Mattamuskeet) resided after the Tuscarora War of 1711 to 1713. Indian Woods also “dried up” … about 1760 or so.
So, what happened to all those people after the reservations emptied out?
My Horner was from Princess Anne, MD. Interesting. I found an interesting link here:
http://www.mdch.org/exhibit/qaoc/item/qaoc022.html
It would be interesting to look at the names in the cemetery.
Techteach
And this:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdsomers/lyonmaps/index.html
It is a link of a map of the MD hundreds.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdsomers/tlis/index.htm
A listing of early Somerset County, MD folks.
The web site also includes this information:
Scottish naming patterns:
* The eldest son was named after the paternal grandfather.
* The second son was named after the maternal grandfather.
* The third son after the father.
* The eldest daughter after the maternal grandmother.
* The second daughter after the paternal grandmother.
* The third daughter after the mother.
In addition, I’ve also seen further information on naming practices:
* The fourth son was named after the father’s eldest brother.
* The fourth daughter was named after the mother’s eldest sister.
This naming convention/pattern prevailed throughout Anglo-Saxon-Northwestern European cultures, and therefore colonial America, and is a great aid in breaking down so-called ‘brick-walls’ of genealogy.
This naming convention starts to break down in some parts of the northeastern/midatlantic U.S. by the 1870 census and in urban areas of the southeast and midwest by the 1880 census. By the 1900 census, it is almost non-existent in urban areas but does continue for some time in rural areas.
Bill
Techteach,
Thanks for the two web sites. They’re very informative, especially the map site.
I have some reactions to the sites as well as come stray comments.
The first series of maps shows the names and locations of the Indian towns I mentioned earlier. (And I stand corrected on both the names and locations of those towns. I was close [ but slightly off ]. My apologies.)
The map-maker lists ASKECKEKY as an Indian town where present day Millsboro, Delaware is, yet doesn’t list BLACKFOOT TOWN, even though Blackfoot Town is less than 5 miles away in present day Dagsboro. So, my question is, did the map-maker simply locate Blackfoot Town incorrectly? (As well as name it incorrectly ?) OR, is ASKECKEKY a different Indian town altogether? OR, is ASKECKEKY an earlier name for Blackfoot Town?
Cottinghan Creek Indian Town is the correct name for what I had earlier called Cottman Town. As well, I had earlier posted that Manokin Indian Town is located where present day Princess Anne now sits, whereas in fact, it’s where Somerset now sits. Mea culpa. My humble apologies.
Stray comments:
The fifth map in the first series shows a “Mattapony Hundred.” Wasn’t there (Isn’t there now) a Mattapony Tribe in Virginia?
In the fourth map of the second series, titled Settlement by 1750, there apppears this statement, “By the end of this period, emigration from the county had begun, as second sons sought opportunity elsewhere.” This fits nicely into my theory (and observation) that Indian towns were “drying up” by 1750 to 1760 or so, and that the Indian residents of those towns were not only becoming acculterated to white society, but that they were striking out for the same opportunties on the frontier that their white and free-balck neighbors were.
So, where were those frontiers? In my own case, Sampson County, NC was one of those frontiers. (Sampson County, NC was first settled by Europeans about 1740.)
More stray comments:
In Techteache’s second link, there is one Honor ______ (last name unknown) who marries a Richard James, a Monie Indian on 8-28-1680.
Are there any James in the forum?
Originally posted by Coharie Roy
Brenda,
In your list of names, (i.e. – “It is impossible to follow the numerous families who were early settlers in the hundred, but the following list of taxables made in the year 1785, shows clearly who were residents of the hundred at that time,…”) there appears several surnames which I know to be Indian. They are BIVANS, SOCKAM, SALMON(S)/SAMMONS and, WEST.
As I recall BIVANS/BEVANS and WEST (along with JACOBS) appears on a map of the Gingaskin Indian Reservation on the eastern shore of Virginia in one of Dr. Helen Rountree’s books. The surname SOCKAM (as well as PUCKHAM) is mentioned by Dr. Rountree as well as by Paul Heinegg. The name SAMMONS is common among the current day Nanticoke Tribe of Delaware. In fact, I worked with and was friends with a SAMMONS man some years ago. ]
“SOCKUM FAMILY
1. John Scokem, born say 1736, was taxable in Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset County with (his wife?) Rachel Scokem in 1757 [List of Taxables]. They were probably the parents of
i. James Socum, “Negro” head of a Dagsborough Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware household of 4 “other free” in 1800 [DE:425] and 5 “free colored” in 1820 [DE:372].”
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Salmons-Turner.htm
This area is full of Delaware & Maryland’s “Invisible Indians”, I am guessing. Most people I bump into seem to be working Nanticoke & perhaps Lenape lines.. and of course there are those who only look at possible African origins. My question is who were the folks at Blackfoot Town? Can we prove someday that there were Saponi/Tutelo in the mix too?
I like your Carolina migration theory. Makes a lot of sense to me. Now how many of these names show up, say 30-40 years later in KY/WV area, in old Floyd or Pike counties?
ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND
VOL. 6, p. 549
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000006/html/am6–549.html
Letter Bk.III
[Sharpe to Dinwiddie.]
5th May 1757—
Sr
“……Capt Dagworthy will keep an Account of what
quantity of either he draws for but I suppose that quantity
will not be great. He informs me that there is a considerable
Number of Cherokee Catawba & Nottoway Indians with him
at present & that they expect to be joined by many others
from their respective Tribes, who upon your Invitation have
declared in our favour & are come from home to act in Con-
junction with the Forces that are supported for the Defence of
these Colonies. As our Assembly is so excessively parcimo-
nious that they will not give any Officer or the Commissary
Leave to furnish any Persons whatsoever with Provisions
beside the Men borne on the Muster Rolls & will agree to
Nothing wherein Fort Cumberland is mentioned, Dagworthy is
much distressed & knows not what to do with the Indians who
visit him, to deny them Provisions when they are come by
our Invitation & to serve us would in all Probability be attended
with very bad Consequences, & I have no Fund or Sum of
Money under my Command as Governor of this Province out
of which I could order a Shilling to be paid on the most press-
ing occasion therefore I must submit this Affair to your Con-
sideration hoping you will be able to free Capt Dagworthy
from the Difficulties in which he finds himself at present
involved. We have not yet received any certain Advice of
the Arrival of the Fleet expected from England nor of the
Embarkation of any Men in the Northern Colonies. I under-
stand that the Earl of Loudoun remains at N York & Colo Stan-
wix with the first Battalion of Royal Americans at Philaa —
I am &c —
Letter Bk. III”
ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND ONLINE
Acts of the General Assembly hitherto unpublished 1694-1698, 1711-1729;
VOL. 38, p. 104 – 105
“An Act for quieting the Differences arising between the Indians and
English in private Controversys.
Because many differences have heretofore arisen & hereafter may
arise between the Indians belonging to the Nations of Indians under
our protection & freindship and dweling amongst us & the English
in private & personall matters which for want of a convenient and
speedy way of determining cause great trouble & inconveniency to
Partys concerned as well the offended as offenders their being no
reguler way of hearing and determining the same but by the Gov-
erneur & Councill which would be very chargable to the Province
by bringing them hither for the prevention whereof for the future
and giveing speedy redress in such cases Bee it Enacted by the Kings
Most Excellent Majty etc. that the Persons hereafter in this Act
menconed be and are appointed authorized & Impowred dureing
the continuance of this Act upon application to him or them made
to hear and determine all differences quarrells & controversies that
hereafter may happen to arise between any Indians & English,
to [sic] private & personall controversies in their severall & respec-
tive precincts, That is to say for the Nation of Choptico Indians in
St. Marys County & the English Inhabitants adjacent Mr Richard
Clowd & Mr Ralph Foster & for the Nations of Ackocick Nan-
jemoy Pomunky & Piscattoway and those that Inhabit within
Charles & Prince Georges County & the English Inhabitants there-
unto adjacent Coll John Addison & Mr Wm Hatton, And for the
Indians in or on the frontiers of Ceecill County & the English there-
unto adjacent Coll Wm Peirce & Majr John Thompson And for those
Nations of Indians of Nanticock Babcoes Ahatchwoops in Dorchester
County and the inhabitants thereunto adjacent Majr Tho: Ennols &
Mr Tho: Hicks and for those Nations of Indians of Manoakin
Rockawakinmany and others in Summersett County & the In-
habitants thereunto adjacent Walter Laine & Rowland Bevons who
are hereby authorized and Impowred to hear and determine all Per-
sonall differences that may happen or arise between the Indians and
English provided the same be only private & of no great moment or
consequence not tending to a nationall concerne in all such cases &
where either party desire to appeal to the Governr and Councill or
refeuse to observe & performe such Sentence of such persons ap-
pointed as aforesaid in all such cases the persons appointed to hear
and determine such matters shall transmitt the partys over to the
Governr & Councill and make report to the Governr & Councill how
he findes the matter between the partys, And any partys that shall
wilfully and contemptiously refeuse or neglect to obeay & performe
the order & determination of such person or persons so appointed as
aforesaid shall appeal to the Governr & Councill upon complaint
made of such persons willfull & negligent non performance as
aforesaid shall and may be sent for before the Governr and Councill
and their punished or bound over to answer the contempt as to Jus-
tice shall appertaine, & if any such differences shall happen between
any Indians & English in any County in the Province where per-
ticuler persons are not assign’d to hear and determine such differences
as aforesaid the same shall & may be heard & determined by any
Justice of the peace in the County aforesaid according to the Rules
aforesaid. Provided & it is the true intent & meaning of this Act,
That any Indians that shall be or reside among the said nations of
Indians shall be deemed & taken as part of the said nation or nations
in point of differences as aforesaid This Act to endure for three
years or to the end of the next Sessions of Assembly which shall first
happen.”
Originally posted by techteach
My Horner was from Princess Anne, MD. Interesting. I found an interesting link here:
http://www.mdch.org/exhibit/qaoc/item/qaoc022.html
It would be interesting to look at the names in the cemetery.
Techteach
Did you notice the reference to Christian Indian burials at the link you gave?
“Notes – 2003 :
…..ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, KENT COUNTY This Structure Has Been Used By Episcopalians Since It Was Erected In 1682 TRINITY, DORCHESTER COUNTY another Protestant Episcopal Church Dating From Maryland’s Early Days. It Was Built In 1692 BUILT IN 1683-84 Manokin Presbyterian Church At Princess Anne is covered with Ancient Ivy Vines MANY INDIANS BURIED HERE St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopal Church, At North East, Was Built In 1700 And In The Cemetery Many Christian Indians are buried IN CECIL COUNTY Bohemian Catholic Church, Which Stands At Norwich Was Built In 1754 PRESBYTERIANS FIRST Makemie Church, At Snow Hill. Was Built In 1683, And Is Reputed The Home Of First Organized Presbyterian Congregation In America EMMANUEL CHURCH, CHESTERTOWN Built In 1664, This Protestant Episcopal Structure, Constructed For A Church Of England Congregation, Is One Of The Oldest Churches In The State OLD WYE CHURCH It Was Erected About 1720 For An Episcopal Congregation at Wye Mills SHREWSBURY CHURCH IN KENT Another Church Built For An Episcopal Congregation. Its construction was completed in 1682″
You mentiond the Cherokee and Catawba in Maryland. The year was 1757.
The reason they were that far North that year was that they were asked to fight in the French and Indian War against the Northern Indians. The Catawba first, and later the Cherokee returned to their homes in E Tn (Cheorkee) and NC/SC (Catawba).
Dagworthy’s hope for a large English supporting Indian alliance never materialized.
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