Re: Samuel Barnes, Silas Roten Barnes Hawkins, TN
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In reply to:
Samuel Barnes, Silas Roten Barnes Hawkins, TN
Melissa Hopson 8/10/11
There were no (almost no) Indians in Hawkins County after 1780.After the Cherokee massacre of 1777 in Hawkins County and the ceding of all of their lands to the US Governbmenbt in the tri-state area in 1780, they were required to remove themselves from the area and they did.There were no Indians within a hundred miles of Hawkins County after 1880 or so.The nearest ones were in the middle of TN and down near Chattanooga.You need to read the newspapers of the 1790s to see that the only Indians in the area were raiders and they were killed on sight by the settlers.The only know Indian family in the area in the early 1800s was the Sizemore family who was descended from a single male part Indian in Stokes County.It isn't known how his mother was impregnated by an Indian, but they were not Cherokees--who lived in the mountains in Western NC.
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