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Three Eagles, you might be relating my family history. As I have explored information sent me by my very distant cousin, descended from different sons of Nancy Agnes McLane, but she was raised on a reservation (I think because of her family’s marriages.), the family followed and/or is tied to both PA and Ohio, working as farmers when I know the information. My great-great grandmother was named Potter (married name). Her mother was named Houston from Ohio, I think (Potter was born in Hartford County) while father was named Sinkey from Huntington, PA. Grandmother Houston’s parents were Houston, of course, and Green. The Green family says Father Houston was rumored to be at least part Native American. Do any of these names mean anything in relationship to your McLean? Actually, they may mean nothing to mine either, except Potter is her daughter-in-law and reported to be at least part Native American. But the PA-Ohio-Iowa route seems to cover many members of this family, both the genealogy my uncle gave me that follows my line to McLane through one son and that of my cousin whose genealogy was sent to me follows another son.

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I first posted to this web site looking for people who might have my ggggrandmother or a connection of hers on their genealogy lists and to address the issue of why some other descendent put a headstone on her grave that reads “Blackfoot” when she was from Western Pennsylvania. I have since found a person with that same surname in a signature on a Shawnee treaty from Ohio (The Mormans have my grandmother listed as Shawnee.) and perhaps an explanation of the Blackfoot designation.

Grandma was born in Beaver County, PA sometime from 1814 to 1818. I have found documents online from the University of Pittsburgh describing a joint Shawnee/Mingo village at the confluence of the Ohio and Beaver Rivers in Beaver County called Sawkunk. Since there seems to be a strong connection, according to other documents on this web site, between the Mingo and the Blackfoot tradition, I feel that this might explain the family oral history of the Blackfoot designation.

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