Absalom Ailstock (1753 - 1858)
is your 5th great grandfather
son of Absalom Ailstock
son of Thomas Ailstock
daughter of Andrew Ailstock
daughter of Annie Elizabeth Ailstock
daughter of Ellen F Grigsby
daughter of Bessie Jane Ellis
Julia Scott was the daughter of a Black Slave and a Scotts pioneer, who was along with her brother and sister captured in Pennsylvania in 1740 by a Shawnee Chief named Hintoo-Intu.. Who was some relation to Cornstalk. Hintoo-Intu gave Julia to Cornstalk. Who adopted her into the Shawnee tribe, and then Married her a year later.. Julia was about 16 very pretty, light skinned and 6 feet tall...Cornstalk was 6' 4" .. The Shawnee's captured many whites and people of other tribes, they were always interested in adding to there numbers. So the healthy and interesting captives would be adopted. One of the most interesting of these adoptees was Daniel Boone, captured and adopted by Black Fish...
Not Absalom Ailstock but representiative of him as Black Revolutionary war soldier.
Julia had at least 5 children with Cornstalk, Sunfish born 1742, Elijah 1744, Absalom 1748, Abraham 1750, and Michael 1752. There were probably other children as well.. At some point Julia's three youngest children returned to the white society after Sunfish was killed in battle.. Absalom, Abraham and Michael ended up in Virginia where they were taken in by the Ailstock family.. Though there is a story that their last name was Adkins for a while... Most of this info comes from Don Greens book "Shawnee heritage II ". There are however similar stories in many lines of the Ailstock family, though some of the details are different.. Take this not as fact but as an interesting starting point for further research..
..
..
ABSALOM AILSTOCK Revolutionary War Record
-
1780-1781 , Virginia
-
AILSTOCK, ABSALOM.— Rockbridge, —. Marched from Louisa about Dec. 1, 1780, it being rumored that the British were about to land on the coast, and was out four weeks. Regimental officers were Col. Fontaine and Maj. Winston. Discharged at Hanover C. H. About April 1, 1781, joined the Second Regiment under Capt. William Harris, the superior officers being Col. Richardson and Maj. Armistead. The British burned the tobacco warehouses in Manchester, the ruins of which applicant distinctly saw from Richmond side. Brigade stationed a while at Malvern Hills. The enemy were in the habit of coming this far up the James in boats, each with a gun at either end, their purpose being plunder. Two such boats and seventeen prisoners were taken by the regiment. Discharged in Spotsylvania in June. Called out next month under Capt. Benjamin Harrison and joined Nelson's brigade (called at Yorktown the Louisa Brigade), at Williamsburg, Col. Richardson being a field officer, but Maj. Martin taking the place of Maj. Armistead. After Washington arrived, the brigade marched on to Yorktown. During the siege, applicant was employed digging entrenchments for batteries and making sand baskets. After the French began the battle on Sunday morning, his regiment was put into the poplar redoubt for the purpose of charging into a gun battery.
Ailstock Indian Story from Kitty Sachs
This is a story I found on Roots Web from Kitty Sachs. We share Andrew and Phoebe Ailstock as our Great Great Great Grandfather and Grandmother..
My father's grandmother is Julia E. Ailstock, born in Rockbridge around 1860, daughter of one of Andrew's two wives. Phoebe is listed as mother on Julia's marriage certificate, but was evidently still married to Elihu Morris (not Andrew Ailstock) at the time of Julia's birth, so I don't know who Julia's mother is. That's how I come to be an Ailstock, but the reason for this message is to ask again how Absalom came to be an Ailstock. My father's family's oral history includes a fully-developed American Indian heritage story, which I am aware could easily be contrived to cover up a black history, however, after 3 years of listening to discoveries about Ailstock roots, I have not read a single thing that dispels the myth. His family says that Rebecca was a Scots-Irish woman, kidnapped from her home in the Ohio Valley (which I guess was huge at the time) by Shawnee Indians during a raid. She was taken to a Shawnee town in what now really is Ohio at the age of about 17, had 3 "hal!
f-breed" (consequently not considered white) sons who were fathered by Shawnees (they'd like to think Cornstalk himself), and repatriated by the army to Louisa to live with Michael Ailstock to help him raise his daughter whose mother had died, and to run his household. Michael Ailstock took them in, gave them his name, and treated them like family for the most part. The three boys left his household as they came of age. Rebecca stayed with Michael and lived as his wife. The three boys married mixed race women, and the extended family took on a variety of colors. End of story. Is there anyone who knows anything about Michael and Rebecca that would render this story totally improbable? If there is, my father would really like to know it, he thinks if he were younger and could just get to some army repatriation records that he'd find something to verify this story. And while I've long-since stopped believing it, I can't disprove it, and I have some indications that there's someth!
ing to it, such as the way Michael wrote his will, leaving his daughter what little he had, accept for a coin for each of the 3 boys, and that there's no mention of Rebecca being any color, or the daughter, only the 3 boys are listed as "m".
