Mr. Withers book can be gotten at Heritagebooks.com It is very reasonably priced. The blurbs about the book mention northwestern VA but it covers much more than that. I found several references to Daniel Boone and areas of northeast TN and southeast KY Since this was 1799 you'll have to look into the Treatys and their continually changing boundaries. Her mother could have been listed as mulatto...many were. If she married in TN that raises the possibility of them moving southward with the shrinking treaty boundary lines. Joyce Gaston Reece ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bettye Woodhull" <betron1@sbcglobal.net> To: <CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] No Indians in KY > Hi Joyce, thanks for all the valuable information you graciously share > with us. Would we find "Chronicles of Border Warfare" at local libraries > and or is it still available to purchase in local book stores or > Amazon.com maybe? > I had never given much thought about there not being any Cherokee > villages in KY; however, it is passed down information relating to my 3 > gr.grandmother that she is 1/2 Cherokee and born in Madison, KY in 1799 > ( I am not sure if this is Madison County or a village of that name. I do > know that I have a cookbook from "cooks of Madison County". > 3gr.grandmother is said to have married in TN in 1816, so was her family > "roamers" or just moving to where food was found available. > It has been close to 60 years since I sat with an opened American > History book in front of me, but I like Lindsey, don't remember our > spending an awful lot of time on NA's, something that I now regret more > frequently. Lindsey, my American and World History teacher had taught my > daddy, so students didn't dare question why or how she taught those > courses!! She was still teaching when my sister came thru the school 9 > years later. . .."Good old teachers never die, they just get propped up in > their chairs." > Bettye Woodhull > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joyce G. Reece" <bjreece@bellsouth.net> > To: <CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 1:16 PM > Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] No Indians in KY > > >> There were NA in Kentucky....they just weren't Cherokee...Shawnee perhaps >> with others in their midst. It isn't assumed. Cherokee research shows >> no villages in what is now KY. >> >> I might suggest you read Mr. Worthy's "Chronicles of Border Warfare". >> It was written in 1830 and is reproduced in the original print. It may >> open the eyes of all NA researchers who tend to think that only the NA >> were abused. 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