>Gregath-Cochran book has several pages on this family, joe > >>Hello, >> I am looking for past history of a Major John Downing who married a >>Cherokee woman with the surname of Fawling. >> If anyone has any information they would like to share it will be such >>appreciated. >> >>Thank you, >>Edwina Peterson >> >> >> >>==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== >> >> >> > > >==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== >Thank you for contributing to the Downing mailing list. > To Edwina from Sherry: Not my line, but... Page 181 of Ross Downing's book: Sir George Downing, Ambassador & Master Spy... and Family Descendants, 1989 [Ross W. Downing 2400 Pleasant Grove, Lansing, MI 48910: Submitted by Debbie Johnson Ferguson [P.O. Box 850701, Yukon, OK 73085-0701] and her father who came from Grand Rapids, MI. Captain William Downing b 1616 Northumberland Co VA, father of John B. Downing b 1638, father of John Downing b 1667, father of Major John Downing b 1692 m Hannah Fawley. Children of Major John and Hannah Fawley: George b Cherokee Nation E. Tenn JOhn William Charles Elizabeth Hannah Edward SArah Nannie b 1722 m1 Pettit, m2 McSwan, m3 Crittenden. Nannie's children: Jennie Wright Crittenden and James Crittenden; lists of James Crittenden's descendants, and indicating the family moved to Westville, ___? in Spring of 1830 with 26 flatboats, blankets, kettles and guns, 113 mixed-blood families and slaves.