[Barbara K]

I posted this yesterday in a different forum and then realized it was the first on the subject in over a month and may not be read. Forgive me for posting again but I want to make sure someone sees it who might be the one I need to help me.

I am new here and this is my first post. For over 20 yrs I have been researching and looking for my grandmother’s family. As a child, I spent my summers with her and she told me about them, us, the Blackfoot Indian. I was to tell anyone who asked that we were Black Irish. As I grew older, I figured she just had the words wrong, everyone knew the Blackfoot tribe was nowhere near Alabama. Yet as I have researched, I have found her Mother’s family, the Kennedy/Cannady’s, her father’s family, Vinson’s, and even her husbands line, Hagens/Hagans/Haggins all from various places in NC, SC and Pittsylvania Va. The more I read and researched, the more I believed that she knew what she was talking about, and I so regret no getting more information from her as I grew older. Some census reports had her as black, some as white. None classed her as Indian. I need someone to help me find my roots, it is so important and getting more important as I see the times of my days thinning and too soon the time will be no more for me to seek my answers. My Jesse Vincent/Vanzant/Vinson came from Pittsylvania about 1790. His father was named either Richardson or Jesse. The Vinson/Vanzant/Vincent’s and the Canady/Kennedy family were said to have traveled together from Va through SC and down into Alabama. Grandmother lived in Satsuma Al, close to Mobile. Anyone here that can help me?

[michaeldunn]

I have Vinsons in my ancestry, though I’ve never seen a Pittsylvania County link: they arrived very early in the Hampton Roads area, moved to Northampton County NC, then further West in NC. What might link them is that at least one and perhaps two daughters married into the Bass family, many of whom were Nansemond.

Also related lines include a lot of Richardsons, a common name among modern Nansemond and Haliwa-Saponi. There may be some link here. The first name Jesse was sometimes used among my Vinsons, but they aren’t the same as yours, but might be related.

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