This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: GRTUDOR Surnames: Prewitt, Pruett, Ford, Taylor, Doolie. Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/891.957.1.1.2.1.1.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I offer the following simply as my belief that John Ford Prewitt was married only to Mildred Green and that he went away and no one knows where. I am aware that this is disputed, but believe that I have found credible evidence that he was not the John who married twice afterwards. John was called "Indian Jack" by the whites. He was adopted by Polly's Husband John Prewitt, yet John, Polly's husband only shows as guardian of Polly's son when he married in 1823 to Mildred Green and named John Ford Prewitt. He was alleged to have been half Indian by Little Turtle, the Miami War Chief. He suddenly left and was never again seen! (in 1830 he does not appear on the census although some claim he remarried in 1831 to Melissa Taylor, obviously another John Prewitt in my opinion). By one source, John marries a third time to a Doolie. Polly, the mother of our subject John, returned to Madison Co., KY before her marriage to John Prewitt in 1805, who is alleged to have been a young boy at the McNitt defeat when Polly was made a captive. Polly brought with her to Madison County, her son who was later named John Ford Prewitt. John ford Prewitt was certainly a young boy when arriving in Kentucky. He married in Garrard Co., KY 11 Mar. 1823 to Mildred Green. After John F. Ford suddenly left to never return, Mildred raised her two children and signed for their marriages. she then remarried Lemuel Walker in 1848. The fact that there was a marriage by a John Pruett to a Malissa/Melissa Taylor in Feb. of 1831 in the same county of Garrard does not mean that the two John's are one and the same although the surname has taken different spellings in the records. I was asked to find the 1850 Census record for John Pruett and Malissa in Butler Co., KY where they were said to be living. After checking the 1850 and 1860 census of Butler Co. and being told that John's tombstone has this: b. Aug 7, 1809 & d. May 7, 1869 it is apparent that both the 1850 and 1860 census recordings confirm his birth yr. as abt. 1809 as he was age 41 in 1850 and age 50 in 1860. This would place the John Pruett, husband of Malissa Taylor as being born abt. 4 or 5 yrs. after Polly Ford brought her son to KY and married John Prewitt (Sr.) in 1805. Also, this John would not have been the young son of Polly's brought with her after her release from the Miami Indians as Polly returned before her marriage in 1805 to John Prewitt (Sr). It has also been said that John Ford Pruett/Prewitt, being an Indian may not have known when he was born. surely his mother, who spoke English and retained for her sanity her given name of Ford, would have taught her young son English and about when he was born. This was followed that perhaps he did not give his real age. He certainly recalled what ever age he gave and was consistant by the census and by his grave marker. He was in fact younger by a few years than his wife Malissa. The above is not meant to confirm two John Prewitt/Pruetts being the same person. This compiler simply refutes the idea that they were one and the same. GRT Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.