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My friend Brenda, from Mingo e-list, sent me this. She’s got the “Blackfoot” identification in her family, from the Sandusky region I believe.
Perhaps this refers to the words black water in the word Monisicapano, the Saponi people were called. We need to look this spot up.
April the 27th, 1710. Present Post Merediem The Honble Edmund Jenings Esqr President, Dudley Digges, John Lewis, Henry Duke, William Churchill, John Smith Esqr., and William Byrd Esqrs. . . . On the Petition of John Bolling setting forth that when leave was given for takeing up land on the Southside of Blackwater Swamp he together with Robert Hix entered with the Surveyor of Prince George’s County for four hundred acres of land begining at the mouth of Stony Creek thence up the same and Nottoway River for the said Complement as by the sd entry may appear and therefore praying an order to the Surveyor of Surry County in which the said land is found to ly, to Survey and lay out the same for the Petitioner and Lewis Green to whom the said Robert Hix assigned his Right. It is thereupon ordered that the Surveyor of Surry County lay out & Survey for the Petitioner & Lewis Green the aforesaid four hundred acres of land they produceing Right for the same according to Law. Executive Journals, Council of Colonial Virginia, published by The Virginia State Library, H. R. McIlwaine, Editor, 1928, Vol. III, page 244.
Lord Linda,
I fish on the Blackwater Swamp. It runs down into Surry County which at one time was part of Prince George County I believe. It runs through Southampton County also. It’s located in the Southwark Parish in Surry. Mind you, I’m finding a mess load of Peters and Walkers in Southwark Parish. That’s what I’ve been working on here lately. And yes, Byrd owned quite a bit of property there, as well as in Lawnes Creek Parish.
Lord Linda,
I fish on the Blackwater Swamp. It runs down into Surry County which at one time was part of Prince George County I believe. It runs through Southampton County also. It’s located in the Southwark Parish in Surry. Mind you, I’m finding a mess load of Peters and Walkers in Southwark Parish. That’s what I’ve been working on here lately. And yes, Byrd owned quite a bit of property there, as well as in Lawnes Creek Parish.
I wasn’t sure where to post this genealogy/history. I live in Florida and have never lived in Virginia. I descend from
William Huncote1-Augustine2-John3-Robert4-William Hunnicutt5-Jesse6-Moses7-Jacob8 & Aaron Honeycutt8. Moses was born 1766 BLACKWATER, Surrey County,VA. His mother was one of the “Unknowns” as were some of his grandmothers. He married Margaret Lucinda Stout in 1788, Orange county,NC.
Dorothy, do you have any stories in the family about Indian ancestry? I don’t see Hunnicut on the “short list” I have on SE Indian surnames, but as you’ve mentioned, there are those unidentified maternal ancestors. I have some people on a side branch from Orange Co, VA in that time frame who I believe were Saponi.
There are the usual stories of “Indian” ancestors, but they are always vague.
With our family surnames they’re always
stories: Anderson-Blankenship-Blevins-Byrd-Campbell-
Davenport-Frye-Garland-Hughes-Ledford-Pettit-Rose-Stovall……..
The first Huncote(later Honeycutt) died in Surry in 1682. His son married unknown. Other names in the descendancy were Wyke
and Ladd.
All of my European ancestors arrived here before 1700 and moved inland from Virginia and South Carolina to western North Carolina and the very eastern side of TN.
Byrd and Anderson are listed as Saponi on that short list of SE Indian surnames. Hughes is also on the list. To my mind, you’ve got good reason feel like you’ve found the source of those family stories.
I am beginning to believe that Rose is going to be another Saponi name also. I’m finding it in Surry as well as Brunswick and Greensville Counties. It is also a name that floats down to Wilson and Johnston Counties NC where I believe we are seeing a migration pattern. I have copies of most of the land deeds from 1650-1800 for Surry County. Let me look and see what I can find for you.
Crystal
I am beginning to believe that Rose is going to be another Saponi name also. I’m finding it in Surry as well as Brunswick and Greensville Counties. It is also a name that floats down to Wilson and Johnston Counties NC where I believe we are seeing a migration pattern. I have copies of most of the land deeds from 1650-1800 for Surry County. Let me look and see what I can find for you.
Crystal
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