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Both of these quotes came from http://mkhgenealogy.com/Sturdivant/. The bold print is the reference that she listed on her website. I copied it ‘as is’ and left in her commentary as well.
Adventures of Purse and Person, P 351:
John Sturdivant seems to have been an Indian trader in the employ of William Byrd I of Westover, who wrote April 29, 1684 from James City to Thomas Grendon in England.
“Old Sturdivant, his son, Millner, Shipy, Womacke and Hugh Cassell were all killed by the Indians in their returne from the westward, about 30 miles beyond Ochanechee, what prejudice it is to mee you may guesse, they having (had they come well in) made a very advantagious journey.â€
The Correspondence of the Three Williams Byrds of Westover, Virginia 1684-1776
Letters of administration on the estates of John Milner, Thomas Shippy, Richard Womeck (and John Davis) were granted to their widows at the same Henrico County Court Aug. 1, 1684.
All of these men’s inventories shows some connections with the Indian trade: Indian boys and girls, trading knives, a tomahawk, Indian baskets.
The Occaneechee Trail or Path led from Fort Henry (Petersburg) through Occaneechee Town (near present Clarksville, Mecklenburg County), close to the Forks of the Dan and Roanoke rivers 20 miles west of what would be present Person County NC.
On a side note…according to the same site, John’s 3rd great-grandson was Winfield Sturdivant. Winfield Sturdivant proved the age(s) of my 3rd great-grandparents, Harvey Jones and Martha Rosser, to marry in 1841 in Greene County, Ohio.
Stacey
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