This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/2056.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Here is some additional information for you. Rec'vd this in my E Mail. Hi Sharon and all There was recent corespondance between Mrs. Hubbard and Todd hanson re: a Henry D. Swearingen of Brooke County WVA. I don't have special knowledge about this fasmily as listed in the Census but I do have various other data of the family. Sharon Rouse/Eye and I have corresponded in some depth in that last few years about other families who connect to the Swearingens going back some years before the 1950 census. A Karel Whyte wrote a book on the Swearingen family in America which I don't have, but I do have a lot of her work and much more of my and other's studies. However I am far from an expert in the family but I am a collector. An observation follows - offered without any restudying as I have been very busy working on other related families such as the Fouke and Chapline families of WVA and elsewhere. I seem to remember a special familiy of Swearingens who moved from ther Hagerstown, Maryland area to Western PA in/about 1760s. They had MANY children and moved to the Buffalo creek areain a disputed ownership area near Wheeling that I tend to think of as in North Ohio County. Two of their sons Marmaduke and his brother apparently was seized by the Indians in a raid and carried off to an Indian Village where Chief Cornplanter lived. [Many accounts exist regarding this Event, but one must know that the whole affair is now adjudged by most "experts" as being pure myth!].Marmaduke's brother was released As the "myth" goes -in brief - Cornplanter adopted the lad as his own son and trained him to be sub-chief.. They named him Blue Jacket as he wore the tattered remnants of his English Jacket. Blue jacket went on to become a great chief - killing many English during the period of unrest which eventuated in Lord Dunsmore War, One killed was a Swearingen (would have been an uncle) who was a Captain of troops along the Ohio. Blue Jacket lived a long time - eventually making peace with the English Ohioans and died with honor. His story is commerated each year and a play-pagent put on in a town in Southern Ohio. From my study of the facts and unfacts I believe there was reason to believe some segmenmts of the story.....but surely not all. A DNA study of Blue Jacket's descendants does not match male descendants of the Swearingens. A pretty scientific "blow" to the myth! Dick Matteson 5204 Paducah Rd. College Park, MD 20740 301-4412-2885 [email protected]