In Bedford Co. VA, I am searching for the surname of my gggm Elizabeth A. ? m. to Francis L. WHITELY b 1814 in Bedford, son of Wm Whitely & Millie Haynes who are listed as married in Quaker vol 6. on ancestry.com. It would be something if she turned out to be Mohawk? never thought of that. There was a Samuel Whiteley who Doris Estes pub. book of his line (over 16,000 Whiteley's) who is found married to Indian and lived in Jackson Co. AL for a few years in 1830s then moved on to Arkansas, Texas. So far I have not connected to this Sam Whiteley, and do not know what tribe his MAYNARD wife was from. thanks for your interesting info. josie At 04:00 AM 4/5/01 -0400, you wrote: >Hi folks, >I was thinking of perimeters and immigration patterns and one of my old >mysteries popped into my head. I had put it on hold some time back. My >Mom always said, insisted, that her Dad told her that the oral tradition >passed down from his mother was that her family came from Canada to >Upstate New York down thru PA westward down thru Ohio and ultimately to >Illinois. My Great-Grandmother who was the source of this information is >first found in Pulaski Co.KY but several of her children listed her >birthplace as Illinois on several different Censuses. Also, some of her >children's death certificates listed her birthplace as Illinois. Her >father and mother married in Pulaski Co.KY in 1830, their dau. was born >ca. 1832--1833. Her mother died, and her father remarried in 1836 in >Wayne Co.KY near Pulaski Co. Her mother's family were Martin's who had >been Quakers. They did come from PA. I find this on Moses Martin's RW >Pension Application at the Sons of the American Revolution Library in >Lou.KY. > >l have wanted, since I was a child, to find something on my Mohawk >heritage. As an adult, I thought it might help to trace their migration >from Canada on downward. That has proven harder than I expected. I have >these Martin's in PA and the Pension Appl. states that Moses said he >moved his family from VA down to TN and up into KY. I can't figure out >how Illinois figures in. I have one clue, one Census says that my Gr-GM >was born in Missouri. I wondered if she was born near where the 3 >states, KY-MO-IL meet. This is not too far from where the Ohio and >Cumberland Rivers meet and the Cumberland leads to Pulaski Co.KY. I must >also state that my Moses Martin was b. in Bedford Co.VA per his Pension >Appl., >in 1755. So how could they migrate westward as Mom said, yet be in VA in >1755. > >I read somewhere that the Iroquois Indians were friendly with Quakers in >Upstate New York and helped protect them during the RW. Does anyone have >any information on this? > >Mom said that Grandpa told her a number of family stories like this one, >because his Mother said that it was the Mohawk way, to pass on family >history orally. Mom said he was telling her the stories because she was >interested and would pass it on to her child or children who would be >most likely pass it on. That was me in our family. So it seems like my >Martin's went two ways, southwest to Illinois and southward to VA. I >have a conflict here. Any suggestions? > >Barb Temple > > >============================== >Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >your heritage! >http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog ___________________________________________________________________ josiebass@zxmail.com 216 Beach Park Lane Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 Home of the *HARRISON* Repository http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/ My Southern Family WWW: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/ LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames & CSA-HISTORY Roots Mail List GENCONNECT: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine Lindsay Bass