Hi Joyce, Thank you so much for this! I have never heard it. My Cherokee line starts with Michael McDonald, b. 1750-58. He was an Itinerant Scottish trader (who migrated from VA to the Cherokee nation about 1774) married a Full Blood Cherokee Woman, her Christian name was Judy Elizabeth MADOC / MODAC / MODOC. I couldn't believe it when I saw the Madoc in the story, as I haven't seen this name on the internet very often. Michael and Judy married in 1777 in Overton Co.TN. Their daughter, Sarah Sally McDonald, b. 1778, married Jobe Carlock(Mohawk Indian), and another daughter, Nancy, married Clemmons S. Means. Patience McDonald, another of Michael and Judy McDonalds children married J.M. Turner, and this line is said to connect to my husbands Cherokee line(his line is proven). I have not yet worked on my line, but my Mother has been working on it for about 30 years. She has lots of documentation, but it is all boxed up and haven't been looked at in years. She had made several trips the east to research-in the time before computers- and when she finally got a computer, she just entered the major information. If anyone has any info on Michael McDonald and Judy Elizabeth Madoc/Modac/Modoc, I would be quite thankful to get it. Thanks again for the post! Pat Reference in a book, THE JACKSON FAMILY HISTORY , by Joe C. Jackson pub. 1988. ( Also in " The Beckoning Hand" by Joe Jackson.-I am not sure but this may be the same book as the Family History book just listed). The Jackson family comes into this through ALICIY CARLOCK , daughter of Jobe Carlock and Sarah McDonald who married Dawson Jackson and she claimed to be Cherokee and it was recorded in a Jackson Family Bible that she was 1/4 Cherokee Indian. *Michael and Judy has one other child and a grandchild from yet another child that are listed in different family Bibles that state they are also Cherokee. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce G. Reece" <jgreece@earthlink.net> To: <CherokeeGene-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:45 PM Subject: Just fyi > The Legend of MadocJoe Guy is McMinn County Tennessee's Historian > > The Legend of Madoc > > “Hidden History” > > Joe Guy > >