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Hello All,
My ancestors were known to be called Tuckahoe’s & Cohee’s, on my mother’s side. One of my family surnames that were known to be Tuckahoe & Cohee were the CASH, the other is either Turner or Garrett. My family is European & American Indian. The European part is mostly French. I found a book in the Va. state library, titled Tuckahoe’s & Cohee’s of Virginia. So I didn’t grow up hearing this term, I was only told we were Indian, Cherokee. The book states that my family was the first “white people” to live in Indian land. So why were they called Indians by using the two terms? Sounds like someone was trying to hide their true & complete ancestry when the book was written!
We have a ancestor, whom is not in my direct line, but is the brother of a direct ancestor, his name is Powhatan Cash. On the marrriage bond of my great, great,great grandfather & mother is written “INTERMARRIAGE”. Neither person was African American. One was a Cash, the bride was a Patterson. CoheeLady
Linda,
I did email Vance, but my email was rejected. So if you could get in contact with him for me, it may help. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
CoheeLady
hi — this e-mail did get through. There needs to be a-nemail site that serves the same function as “change of address” forms. Is there?
I was told the same thing — Tuckahoe — about our “Richey” surname. Seen Ricjey’s who said their ancestors were both “Blackfoot” & “Tuckahoe”. I did a search for “Tuckahoe” on the internet and found a lot to speculate about, but nothing solid. It said “Tuckahoe” was a wild tubor the Indians of the Chesapeak region ate, said it grew up & down the Eastern Costal regions from NY to NC or thereabout, maybe elsewhere. It was a major food source for the Indians, perhaps the origin of the “Wild Potato Clan”, I don’t know.
Another place it said some folks were called “Tuckahoes” as a sort of derogatory term for poor Irish farmers, usually indentured servants, temporary slaves I guess thy were. But it said people of mixed race but were free might also be called “Tuckahoes”. We’ve been told our Richey’s came from Ireland, so that fits us, I guess.
Also “Tuckahoe” was the name of a son of Cherokee “Chief Doublehead” and was known to have been as far north as Kentucky with the Chickamauga who allied with the Miami & others in Little Turltle’s war. It is said “Tuckahoe’s” mother was “Algonquin”, which would mean not of Soiuxian stock, maybe Shawnee or somethin like that, some Algonquin tribe. But there were other Algonquin people’s in Virginia, correct me if I am wrong, I think Pamunkey, & others I forget at present?? Maybe somebody else knows.
our family surnames that came from Virginia or nearby to Va (that we know of) — Richey, Wayland, Wood, Dickson.
vance hawkins
howdy again —
I am not farmiliar with teh term “Cohee” — can you explain it? wa-do.
also I think I heard “Johnny Cash” was mixed-Cherokee, don’t know details, tho.
vance
There were actually over 30 algonquin tribes in Virginia before Jamestown. Most of them were subjects of or a small part of the Powhatan Chiefdom.
The word Tuckahoe actually comes from a crude spelling of an alogonquin word for mushroom… it means that which is round.
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To cr21,
The word Tuckahoe was recorded as being a root that grew at the base of certain trees along the coast. This was a food source of the Indians of the area. Also my ancestor’s were Tuckahoe’s.
Sincerely,
CoheeLady
Tuckahoe like i said is a word for a mushroom.. the ndns used it for starchs. The word tuckahoe as a tribal sense is not true..common misconception.The word tuckahoe is of algonquin origin; it is a corruption of the Algonquin word ptuckweoo, a descriptive adjective meaning “it is round”. Although the geographic range of the Algonquin Indians extended from Canada to Cape Hatteras, this word was restricted to the southern region of their territory. The reason for this you will soon understand.
Before the arrival of the first white settler ( Jonas Bronck, 1693) in the New York area, an important Indian village was located along the west bank of what is now called the Bronx River, just opposite the present day Bronxville and Tuckahoe. The inhabitants were the Weckquaeskeck Indians and they called their village Aquehung and the river Aquahung. Although the Weckquaeskecks were Algonquins they spoke a dialect known as Wappinger. As you can now see, Tuckahoe was not the name of this Indian village or tribe, as most people think.
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To: cr21,
My ancestor’s & I are from Virginia, not up North. Some of them lived in the 1600’s in Westmoreland & Stafford county, in Stafford they lived in Aquia. They moved to the mountains calling themselves Tuckahoe’s & Cohee’s. I never said that Tuckahoe was a tribe. So I guess they just called themselves mushrooms? Not the case.
Sincerely,
CoheeLady
Hello Cohee Lady, Iam sure that you are not a mushroom, but Iam sure most advice given in one way or another fits the topic, if it clicks then consider it to confirm what you already know if it’s new then your like the rest of us just here to share and learn. BTA, Tom
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