Hello Helen: My American Indian ancestors didn't go west, so they wouldn't be found on the Indian Rolls, unless some of their relatives went west; but I don't have even the siblings names of Martha O. DENTON and William SCOTT. I am interested in all the DENTON, MASSA and SCOTT names you run across. I don't have any proof of my American Indian ancestry, except that my Grandmother had black hair in her old age and she had the high cheek bones; plus, she would pick certain herbs to use as medicine. We lived in a house with no electricity, no running water, and an outside toilet. Using quart-sized milk pails, we carried our drinking and cooking water from a neighbors and the spring down in the commons. We had a couple of big barrels under the eaves of the house to catch the rain water that we used for bathing and laundry, after skimming the mosquito larvae off the top of the barrel. Grandma was one-quarter Indian blood - who knows what tribe - the way the Indians were chased off their ancestral homes and couldn't even keep their true identity, being merged in with other tribes and given the other tribes name, so your true tribe was covered up and forgotten generations later. Family tradition says that we were from the Miami tribe - but like the Miami Indian genealogist in Peru, Miami Co, IN told me - we couldn't be Miami, because the Miami Indians weren't from VA. My brother told me he thought we were probably Delaware Indians. That makes more sense to me, too, because some of them had settled in VA and the surrounding area after being chased away from their original homeland. Below are my American Indian ancestors: Martha O. DENTON, b abt 1800, VA; need parents, siblings, and tribal affiliation William SCOTT, b 1785, VA; need parents, siblings, and tribal affiliation Harriet MASSA, b abt 1790, PA; living ibn Silas and Mariah JONES' household in the 1850 Census ( Mariah Jones was a daughter of William and Martha Scott). Harriet is possibly a sister of William or Martha. William Scott, according to Kemper's 1889 "History of Delaware County, Indiana", was in the War of 1812. He acquired 160 acres of land and settled in Delaware Co, IN in 1836. He was a farmer. This is where he died 15 Jun 1860. William SCOTT and Martha O. DENTON married 13 Apr 1820, Greene County, OH. Yvonne Grimmer, one-sixteenth American Indian mailto:ygrimmer@jps.net ============================================================ ----- Original Message ----- From: Helen West <jhwest@ptialaska.net> To: <NATIVEAMERICAN-DELMARVA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 11:00 AMnames Subject: Re: Your names > Dear List, I would like to ask for people who know that they are Indian, > weather they can prove it or not, to give me the person's name. Please use > Caps for surnames. Then the approximate year of birth or marraige. Since > this is a subject very near and to my heart, I want to help others. Many of > us have stories we know to be true and are scorned by others. > > Now, down to work, I have access to the NAIL, as well as ancestry.com which > is more helpful than you know. So please send me your names and birth dates > and I will look for them in the Dawes Rolls, etc. Love and Peace to > all~Helen >