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Hello Descendants of Saponi Town – Greentown – Lawrenceville, Virginia:
My name is KIM MCARTHUR, I am also a descendant of the “GREEN’s” of Greentown-Lawrenceville, Vitginia in Brunswick County . . .
“MACK, VAN, & Nancy ( GAINES ) CALLIS” were from FREEMAN, VIRGINIA in Brunswick County . . .The “MOORE’s” were their first cousins . . .
Gertrude (Powell) Green (She was Brown Skin) came from North Carolina on a Ferry and
then met Willie Green….Her mother was very Light skinned and her father dark skinned….
She mention to the Children that her parents were Watusi/Indians (Watusi ‘s are from Eastern Africa ) She said her father was very tall…Watusi’s are very tall…
Her mother was probably Indian… & Her father was probably African & Indian
mixed….Because She was a Mixed Indian….
Please send me information about the “POWELL”, “GAINES”, & “CALLIS”
My Family Tree is below:
Fred & Polly (Jackson) Green
Great Great Great Grand Parents
Marcy & Lucy (Wyche) Green
Great Great Grand Parents
Willie & Gertrude (Powell) Green
Great Grand Parents
Van & Louise ( Green) Callis
Grand Parents
Fred & Sarah ( Callis) McArthur
Parents
Kim A. McArthur
(Myself)
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Mack & Nancy (Gaines) Callis
Great Grand Parents
Van & Louise (Green) Callis
Grand Parents
Fred & Sarah (Callis) McArthur
Parent
Kim Mcarthur
(myself)
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Thank you,
KIM MCARTHUR
The Saponi, Tutelo, and Occaneechi going under the name of Saponi settled in
Brunswick
County, Virginia about a musket shot away from Fort Christianna ,the Flatt River (in the part of Granville County that became Orange in 1752,)
THOMAS POYTHRES, of Pr. Geo. Co.; 180 acs. (N.L.), Surry Co.; N.
side of Nottoway
River on N. side of the Woodyard Sw a little above the fork; 23 March 1715,
p. 265. 20 Shill.
William Reade 21 Feb 1725 Isle of Wight 100 acres on the north side of the
Meherrin River. Beginning g and c on the East side of Flatt Swamp. Patent 12
p. 341
Flatt swamp was considered Saponi tribal area.
1713 Treaty of Fort Christiana includes 36 sq. mi. set aside for the Saponi
Indians in Brunswick Co.
1746-7 The Saponis moved from the Pamunkey River area of Va. to the Flat
River
1767 Saponis are selling land on the Flat River in Orange Co. Saponis are
moving to sections of the back woods of the New River in Va. and N.C.
The Melungeons began selling their land on the Flatt River in Orange County beginning about 1767 and moved to the back woods section of the New River in Virginia and North Carolina. They moved from the Pamunkey River area of Virginia to the Flat River beginning in about 1747-9. These families included Collins, Gibson, Bunch, Bolen, and possibly Moses Riddle. They were of the Baptist faith, some joined at Stony Creek by letter from another Baptist Church.
According to North Carolina records, the Saponi Indians had a settlement about 15 miles east of Hillsboro, county seat for Orange County, North Carolina … According to their settlement location, the Saponi would probably be near the Flatt River. …
The following Saponi information is from a Saponi chronology compiled from an Eno-Occoneechee petition for recognition by the State of North Carolina-1750. The Saponi had a settlement near Hillsboro, North Carolina. Post Revolutionary Pleasant Grove region Saponi Indians Jeramiah Bunch, George Gibson, and Henry Bunch received land grants in 1785 along the Eno River just east of Hillsboro, North Carolina.
pp. 84-85
Brenda Collins Dillon wrote: The Melungeons began selling their land on the Flatt River in Orange County beginning about 1767 and moved to the back woods section of the New River in Virginia and North Carolina. They moved from the Pamunkey River area of Virginia to the Flat River beginning in about 1747-9. These families included Collins, Gibson, Bunch, Bolen, and possibly Moses Riddle. They were of the Baptist faith, some joined at Stony Creek by letter from another Baptist Church.
According to North Carolina records, the Saponi Indians had a settlement about 15 miles east of Hillsboro, county seat for Orange County, North Carolina … According to their settlement location, the Saponi would probably be near the Flatt River. …
The following Saponi information is from a Saponi chronology compiled from an Eno-Occoneechee petition for recognition by the State of North Carolina-1750. The Saponi had a settlement near Hillsboro, North Carolina. Post Revolutionary Pleasant Grove region Saponi Indians Jeramiah Bunch, George Gibson, and Henry Bunch received land grants in 1785 along the Eno River just east of Hillsboro, North Carolina.
pp. 84-85
Where did Brenda get this info, anyone?
Shirley
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