In a message dated 10/12/2006 12:16:20 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: The Indian massacre in Jamestown was mitigated somewhat due to a warning from an Indian boy through Richard Pace, a direct ancestor of mine through my maternal ancestry which eventually became Lancasters in Mississippi and Missouri. Your mention of Joseph Hardin Bennett is interesting. My great grandfather was Joseph S (probably. He used different initials) Bennett. He joined the 27th Arkansas Infantry early in the Civil War, but deserted and went to Missouri and joined a Yankee cavalry unit. His daughter-in-law (my grandmother) was a Hardin. I"m not too far back in those lines, but all the way back to William the Conqueror's time with the many names which became, through marriage, Lancaster. I am obviously descended from second or later children, 'cause I just aint got any of their money ================ I have been trying to see if there is a link between a Joseph BENNETT in the book about whom little is written and Joseph Hardin BENNETT. If you do a google search of him, you should be able to pick up some information about him there. He married the daughter of a well-known, part Cherokee Indian (mostly European) chief named Joel Bryan MAYES (sometimes listed as Joel Mayes BRYAN). Joseph Hardin BENNETT was happy with his wife but she died leaving no children. Then he married a white woman (he himself was white) and the trouble began. Although he was still accepted by the Cherokees and still active in their leadership as were many of the subsequent BENNETT children of his marriage with Hulda RINGO, the white woman he fell in love with, he ran into trouble because of the Cherokee removals and the Cherokee's fears of their claims at the time of the Dawes roll later on being diluted by the presence of so many whites, or "intruders," as they came to become called. Contradictions between the full-bloods and the mixed bloods, many of whom were only 1/32 or less Cherokee but in positions of power and often having more money, were heightened. His membership (he had been officially adopted as a young teenager who had run away from home to seek out the Cherokees intentionally) was reconsidered, rejected, accepted again, etc. in a number of lawsuits. Finally by the time it was all settled and he was reinstated, he was dead. His descendants were Sears. They are still active in politics. One is running right now for office in South Carolina, I believe, under the name Wright, if I am not mistaken. I will send you a copy of the book in Word although the hardcopy has maps and better charts--I am no great word processing wiz. Victoria