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Hi, Nadia,
Would love to communicate with you about the Cherokee woman of whom you wrote whom is probably Pratch(e)y HATTON whom I believe was the daughter of a Trader named John HATTON whom is from one of my branches of cousins.
Pratchey HATTON is believed to have have married or been in a relationship with Richard PEARIS whom I believe may have several connections to some of my ancestors and, possibly, be one himself. I believe that it is highly possible that he is the father of Hugh PIERCE, (RS,) born: abt. 1749/1751 in Frederick County, Virginia who married a Cherokee woman named Sofia/Sophia HUNTER, (though I believe that the surname of HUNTER has simply been 'tagged' on her by contemporary researchers due to her being believed to have been the daughter of Cherokee father: Bold HUNTER, born: abt. 1750 in North Carolina, and her Cherokee mother, Beaver TOTER whom is in Georgia from the early 1800s through the 1830's and listed as a deeded land owner by the U.S. just a couple of years after the U.S. gave the first deeds to the Cherokee chiefs.
Richard PEARIS was an associate of Nathaniel GIST/GUESS/aka GUICE whom is believed to have been the father of George "Sequoyah" GIST though the spelling for George was, generally, different than that for his father in most spellings of his surname. Nathaniel was an earlier husband of the Cherokee woman Wurteh who would later marry as the 2nd wife of a Trader named John BENGE and they were the parents of Cherokee Chief Robert "Bob" BENGE. John BENGE took Wurteh as his 2nd wife while still married to his 1st wife, Elizabeth LEWIS, and Elizabeth and John are the 7th great grandparents of my husband.
The BENGE family married into the BOWLES family of Texas Cherokee Chief John BOWLES, Sr., born: abt. 1750 in North Carolina who immigrated through the south entering Texas in 1819 and settled in East Texas where he would die at the age of 83 years old in the Battle of Neches fighting alongside apprx. 600 Texas Cherokee and some associated tribes comprised of mostly women, children, and elderly men trying to protect their 1,000,000 acre land grant from former Republic of Texas President Sam HOUSTON from being taken away by then President Mirabeau LAMAR who sent the Texas Cavalry to do his bidding.
Chief John BOWLES, Sr. was also known as Too-wah-yello and Duwali/D'iwali and Bold HUNTER and I believe that he is the same Bold HUNTER who was also known to have been called Too-wah-yello and the father of Sofia/Sophia HUNTER.
My 3rd great grandmother, Elizabeth PIERCE, was born in 1790 in Old 96th District, South Carolina at the time that Hugh PIERCE, (RS,) and wife, Sofia/Sophia HUNTER, were there and then later Elizabeth PIERCE and her husband, William MYRICK, are found living next to George PIERCE in Mississippi with this George PIERCE known to have been the son of Hugh and Sofia.
My MYRICK family group married into GRANTHAM, STUCKEY, HERRINGTON/HARRINGTON, LEWIS, PARKER, JENNINGS, EARLE families by the time they migrated from 1600's Virginia through the Carolinas into Georgia to Atlanta to Mississippi and then into Louisiana and later my father and some brothers into Texas.
While in Mississippi and Louisiana my MYRICK family and other connecting families of the names above and others connecting to them married into my HATTEN/HATTON lineage and my maternal 3rd great grandfather, William HATTON, born: January 1800 on Tar River, Nash County, North Carolina, who was the son of Lewis Lamkin HATTON and Sarah "Sally" UNDERWOOD.
William HATTON married Frances Lucretia "Patsy" LOTT, born: abt. 1802 in Mississippi Territory, died: 1840 in Ouachita/Jackson Parish, Louisiana whom is believed by most to have been the daughter of Absalom LOTT and wife, Martha Jane Dorsey LIGHTFOOT, (not an Indian name as many think but British; however, there are Cherokee LIGHTFOOT descendants from the late 1700's who were from one of the John LIGHTFOOT men from Virginia who was, also, a Trader with the Cherokee.
In our branch of my HATTEN/HATTON & LOTT family descendants we know that Frances Lucretia "Patsy" LOTT was part Choctaw and/or Choctaw/Cherokee mix.
Another researcher or two have stated that Frances Lucretia "Patsy" LOTT was the daughter of Choctaw Chief TUSQUAHOMA who resided in Ouachita Parish/later Jackson Parish, Louisiana from the late 1700's until around 1850 or so.
William HATTON, himself, I believe was a descendant of Shawnee heritage through his great grandmother who was named Chelo and married to Thomas UNDERWOOD, ancestors of William's mother, Sarah "Sally" UNDERWOOD, who also had an UNDERWOOD cousin who was a Chickasaw Chief.
Chelo and Thomas UNDERWOOD had a son who was listed on the census as mulatto but by the next census when his father was then wealthy the child was listed white.
There are, apparently, some more HATTON - Choctaw connections that are in the Native American files in at the U.S. library facilites in Fort Worth, Texas that I have to go see but have not yet been able to.
See this information immediately below.
Please contact me.
Sincerely,
Bellinda Myrick-Barnett
The information below abd other info that I have found connect dots to my EARLE family, as well, that were also in Frederick County, Virginia where the aforementioned Hugh PIERCE was born in abt. 1749 or 1751. My EARLE family were close friends of and owned land adjoining that of Augustine WASHINGTON, father of George WASHINGTON whose first political foray was holding the seat from Frederick County, Virginia in the Virginia House of Burgesses that was first held by my paternal 5th great grandfather, (Major) Samuel EARLE, III.
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Dan Akin
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Location: Columbia Mo., Boone Co. Mo.
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There is a man whom I feel is a major element in the frontier of Virginia. He is named Richard Pearis. In 1754 he and Nathanial Gist were engaged in trade to the Cherokees. Both men had taken Cherokee side-wives which they kept at Toqua, Willinewah's village, on the Little Tennessee River. During this time, Pearis opened a trading house at Long Island of the Holston (Kingsport TN) with his partner Thomas Price.
It is said that Pearis' Cherokee bride was named Pratchy Hatton, after the Indian trader named Hatton, and is the daughter or grand daughter of Oconastota. Willinewah and Oconastota would later give tens of thousands of acres of Cherokee land in the present Greenville South Carolina area to Richard Pearis' son George Pearis. Richard Pearis established a trading post and home there which the Americans destroyed during the Revolution because they claimed it was a nest of Indians and Tories.
In 1756 Captain Richard Pearis was in charge of a group Cherokees which joined the Virginia Militia for the Sandy Campaign against the Shawnees under the Lts. and chiefs Round O, from the Middle Settlements, and Yellow Bird (Cheesquatoarone). These are the Cherokees who had the camp at Fort Frederick on the New River near the Ingle's Ferry site.
On April 29th, 1757 Richard Pearis, Evan Shelby, and the Cherokee chief Wahachey, along with 62 Cherokee warriors, entered the other "Fort Frederick" built by George Washington in Maryland. The Cherokees had made an alliance with Maryland and pledged to fight the Shawnee and the French on Maryland's behalf.
Dan.
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Bess11-15-2002, 02:06 PM
Richey
I looked over some of your other surnames besides Richey, ie., Guest (Gist), Hoten, and Dixon. I agree with you that your ancestors who carried these names came from East Tenn. They were connected to noted "indian traders" who came into this area via the old Warrior trail.
This path moved across the backside of Va, moving from the North East to the South West. The Northern end of the trail in Va. passed through Berkeley, County VA/WVA at the Potomac River. The Southern terminus was in old Washington County wich was at the Eastern gate of the Cherokee Nation in what is today, East Tenn (the counties of Sullivan and Hawkins). If you pick up a Va. road map, the Warrior Path is most easily recognized if you follow interstate #81 from Bristol Tenn. all the way up to Martinsburg WVA. This super highway was laid out, essentially, over the main branch of old Warrior Trail. Amherst, Bedford, Roanoke, and Augusta counties are located in the middle portion of this trail in VA.
Some of the main traders, coming out of PA and MD, who moved their pack horse caravans over this trial to the "Indians of the South west", were the Paris Family, the Smiths (John, Abraham), the Hites, the Van Meters and John Hatton and Christopher Gist. Though, initially, the focus of the investigation for Solomon Richey, should be Berkeley, Augusta and Amherst Counties Va, however, eventually it may lead to other counties along this trail including Frederick (in the North) and Washington County Va, and Sullivan and Hawkins Counties in Tenn. (In the south).
You speculate that the name "Hoten" may have come from "Powhattan". I think, more likely, it came from John Hatton, the "indian trader" who had a daughter, named Pratchy, by a Cherokee woman named Ah-ne-wa-kee Moytoy. The latter was the daughter of the Moytoy, a Chickamauga chief. Some researchers say that Pratchy Hatton was the second wife of Richard Pearis.
Your "Hoten"may be a derivative of "Hatton". Just as your "Guest" is a derivative of Gist. Also, you should know that the surname of the wife of John Hatton was Dixon. So this is where your Dixon may (?) have come from. Below I refer you to a few things on the Internet that support these conclusions. As well you should keep in mind that all these traders had connections with Eastern Siouan tribes of the Piedmont of Va/NC. Pearis, Hite, Vanmeter, Gist and John Smith had direct dealings with the Catawba. Additionally, Pearis moved to Amherst/Bedford County from 1752 to 1760 apparently for trade with the local natives, who were Monacans. Another trader who hung with this crowd, was Richard Smith. He was out of the Ft.Christanna area with direct ties to the Saponies, Occaneeches etc. So, the "Blackfoot" ancestors in your Richie and Woods lines could be derived from Siouan Native Americans with contact with this same group of traders as well. Bess Veney.
http://donmchugh.tripod.com/paris/richardpearis.htm http://donmchugh.tripod.com/paris/1700_1755.htm.
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