Thursday, April 23, 2015

The Crown of Leinster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kings_of_LeinsterHere's some interesting facts. The most common name in Ireland is Kavanagh. Everyone with the name Kavanagh in their family tree is related to the Kings of Ireland, and specifically one man. Domhnall Caomhánach mac Murchada, 1171–1175 – first MacMurrough-Kavanagh. He was the first Caomhanach or Kavanagh. He was also one of the many kings of Leinster..  For a list of all the kings of Leinster go here...Kings of Leinster.. Well you say thats cool but what does that have to do with the Cheek's.I'm gonna tell ya...

Leinster was a kingdom in Ireland. Here's a map of Ireland about 900 AD. No family in Ireland can point to a more ancient pedigree than the Kavanaghs. They can trace it back to the dawn of Irish history. Tradition, indeed, carries it far beyond that limit – to the legendary Feniusa of Scythia, coeval with the Tower of Babel, whose descendants, having wandered into Egypt, found their way back again to Scthia, and thence to Spain, from which country Heber and Heremon, the 2 sons of Gallamhy or Milesius, crossed over to Ireland, reduced it to subjection and divided it between them. From them sprang lines of Kings ruling over the 5 monarchies into which the island was split up.

                                                                 Ireland 900 AD

Grandmother Alma Wilkersons father was Calvin Walter Wilkerson 1863,1930. Calvin's father was Robert Wesley Wilkerson 1823, 1882. Roberts father was Townsend Wilkenson 1804,1854. Townsend was married to Francis D Sheppard 1806, unk. Francis's father was Benjamin Sheppard 1772,1850. Benjamin s father was Robert Sheppard 1732,1797. Now Roberts father was Samuel Sheppard 1695, 1751. Samuel's wife was Mary KAVANAUGH born 1705 in Virginia. Now thats great but there are so many Kavanaughs you say.. Lets keep going.. Mary Kavanaugh's father was Michael Kavanaugh  born 1675 in Virginia. Michael's father was James Kavanaugh born 1645 in Ireland. James was married to Delores De Campomanes from Campomanes Spain, a little village in Northern Spain near the Basque country...Why was he in Spain? Visiting relatives.. James father was Sir Charles Kavanaugh 1620 to 1691, who died on a prison ship explosion off of Kinsale Ireland...Charles father was Morgan or Moroch Kavanaugh. 1631,1696 who along with his son Charles were involved in the Confederation War in Ireland.. Morgans father was

Domhnall Spainneach Mac Murrough Caomhánach (died 1632) was the last King of Leinster.

A descendant of Diarmait Mac Murchada (died 1171), Domhnall was the eldest of the two sons of Donnchadh Caomhánach, lord of the Art Buihde Caomhánach sept, who were reckoned the least powerful of the dynasty. Their lands lay north of Enniscorthy in the Blackstairs Mountains. It appears that at Donnchadh's death, Domhnall was taken into the care of the seneschal of Wexford, Thomas Stukeley. When Stukeley left for Spain in 1568 Domhnall went with him, which explains the origin of his nickname, Spainneach.
He returned to Ireland in the mid-1570s and became a leading member of his sept. He became a firm ally of Fiach McHugh O'Byrne with whom he intrigued until the latter's death in 1597. After O'Byrne's death, he intrigued with Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. When the Nine Years' War (Ireland) ended in 1603, Domhnall submitted and was awarded a pension, as well as recognition of title to his lands.
Domhnall was married to Elizabeth O'Byrne (died in or after 1608), and Eleanor Kavanagh (died in, or after, 1633), and had a total of six children. He successfully conveyed his property to his son, Sir Morgan Kavanagh . His only known brother was Cathaoir.

The Confederation War broke out in Kilkenny in 1641, as the Irish attempted to throw out the English yet again, something that seem to happen at least once every generation. Sir Morgan Cavanaugh of Clonmullen, one of the leaders, was killed during a battle in 1646, and his two sons, Daniel and Charles (later Colonel Charles) continued with the struggle until the uprising was crushed by Cromwell in 1649. It is recorded that Daniel and other Carlow Kavanaghs exiled themselves to Spain, where their descendants are still found today, concentrated in the northwestern corner of that country. Young Charles, who married Mary Kavanagh, daughter of Brian Kavanagh of Borris, was either exiled to Nantes, France, or transported to Barbados… or both. Although we haven’t found a record of him in a military life in France, it is known that the crown of Leinster and other regal paraphernalia associated with the Kingship of Leinster was brought to France, where it was on display in Bordeaux, just south of Nantes, until the French Revolution in 1794. As Daniel and Charles were the heirs to the Leinster kings..

So we see here that the British stole our kingdom and killed our ancestors.. Also when you hear of the conflicts in Northern Ireland between the Catholics and the Protestants, that's still about the issues our ancestors fought for back in 15 and 16 hundreds.

Domhnall Spainneach Mac Murrough Caomhánach last King of Leinster was my 11th Great Grandfather.
Borris House Ancestral Home of the Kings of Leinster


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Art Mor MacMurrough Kavanaugh and The Earl of Gloucester
            
     Art Mór Mac Murchadha Caomhánach (anglicized Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh; died 1416/17) is generally regarded as the most formidable of the later Kings of Leinster. He revived not only the royal family’s prerogatives but their lands and power. During the length of his forty-two year reign he fully lived up to his title, dominating the Anglo-Norman settlers of Leinster.
His dominance of the province and its inhabitants – both Gaelic and Hiberno-Norman – was deemed sufficiently detrimental to the colony that Richard II spent much of the years 1394-1395 sparring with him. While Art did indeed submit to Richard, he renounced this fealty on Richard’s departure and made much of his kingdom a death-trap for any invading English or Anglo-Irish forces. He was very much cut of the same cloth as his ancestors Diarmait mac Mail na mBo and Diarmaid Mac Murchadha.
                   


Eileen Aroon

In the 1640’s, Sir Morgan Kavanagh’s daughter, Eleanor Kavanagh, eloped with her lover, Cormac O’Daly. Such at least, is the legend, which gave rise to the song Eleanor (or Eileen) Aroon, better known in Scotland as Robin Adair, after a later proponent of the tune. Its fame even reached France, where Francois Boieldieu used it in the final act of his masterpiece, the opera La Dame Blanche in 182


 



 

 

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Cokundiawatha

War Chief of the Mohawks, Robert Griffing

The Grave on the Hill

In Defiance Ohio, on the side of the North Side Hill, formerly Scalp Level, there is a Grave Marker. The Marker, a large Granite rock, says, Cokundiawtha Mohawk Chief 1790. That's all.. There is much more to the story.

 Cokundiawatha was a war chief of the Mohawk nation and fought with his tribe and the British against the Americans. As his tribe and the British were defeated, Cokundiawatha and his family moved west to the confluence of the Maumee and Auglaize Rivers. There they joined with Chief Blue Jacket and the Shawnee...

Cokundiawatha's family consisted of his Wife Cooh-Coo-Cheeh, a princess of the Wolf Clan, their sons. White Loon,  Black Loon, Wawpunno, and a daughter Quatsy. They were not the only non Shawnee at "The Glaize" in the year 1790. There were Chicamauga Cherokee, Delaware, Seneca, Cayuga, and Mohawk referred to collectively as Mingo spread amongst several towns near the Confluence, of the Miami of the Lake, Bean Creek, and The Auglaize.
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In October of 1790 Colonel Josiah Harner and his 400 militia and  Major Wyllys and his 60 regulars marched north from Cincinnati, seeking the Miami town of Kikionga. Which was where present day Ft. Wayne Indiana is today. On October 22 the American army entered Kikionga destroying everything they could find, harvested food, houses and anything that would be useful to the Natives.. Thinking the Indians had fled in fear they pursued the combined army of Miami Shawnee, Mingo and others. There were two battles that day, both defeats for the Americans.. In the second battle the Indians stopped their retreat and faced their pursuers in the swamp to which they had been led. Throwing down their guns the Natives attacked the Americans with tomahawks. It was while in the process of tomahawking an American soldier that Cokundiawatha received a fatal wound from a bayonet. The Natives call this the Battle of the Pumpkins for the scalped heads of the 187 dead Americans resembled pumpkins, steaming in the cold autumn air...

Cokundiawatha died on his return trip to the Glaize and was buried some 20 miles up the Maumee from home.When hearing the news Cooh-Coo-Cheeh and her sons went and retrieved her husband and returned to bury him next to the old war trail on the north side of the Maumee. She then built a cabin there, directly across the trail from her husbands Grave. It was that cabin that White Loon and Black Loon brought Oliver Spencer,  two years later.
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Cokundiawatha was buried sitting up, looking west, for that was where the Happy hunting ground lay, with his rifle, tomahawk and everything he would need in his next life by his side..Over his grave there was a pole placed with the face of a man, painted red and marks on the pole for each of the warriors scalps. On special occasions there was a long pole erected hanging over the grave of Cokundiawatha, with 19 scalps of all colors hanging from it.as reported by Oliver Spencer and William Wells.

So the next time you're driving out 424 to Pontiac Park and Independance Dam, just imagine Cokundiawatha sitting there looking west. With his warpaint on and his weapons by his side, and his scalp pole with 19 scalps of all colors flying in the wind... and wonder why did they misspell his name on the stone, I think they just ran out of room and fudged it.. John C Cheek

Sources: The Captivity of Oliver Spencer by Oliver Spencer
Black Snakes Path: William Heath

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The tragic story of our 11th great Grandfather Thomas Godby!

Clementine Jane Godby

Thomas Godby was our 11th gtreat grandfather in Great Grandma Sarah Jane Weeses Line, Sarah Wees's mother was Clementine Godby..






NOTES ON SEA ADVENTURE AND MURDER OF THOMAS GODBEY


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Thomas Godby came to America on the Ill fated Sea Venture in 1609. He survived the Shipwreck of the Sea Venture on  Bermuda and then he is listed among the living after the Indian massacre of 1622. Thomas's wife was Ann Beane. He died in a drunken brawl in 1628 at the foot of William Bentley!

According to information provided by the Replica Ship "Deliverence" brochure:

Cpt. Christopher Newport had made two trips to Va. from England to carry settlers and supplies there. On his third voyage he was in charge of the flagship "Sea Venture". Also, on board were several other important people- Sir George Somers as Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Thomas Gates, who had been appointed Lt. General in Va., and William Starchey, Secretary-elect for the Va. Co.

Barely seven weeks out of England, the fleet encountered a tremendous storm and the ships were widely scattered. Four days later, on July 28, 1609, the "Sea Venture" w/ its complement of 150 people was shipwrecked off St. Catherine's, St. George, Bermuda.

Miraculously, all souls were saved; not only that, but the "Sea Venture" wedged between two rocks and did not immediately sink. W/ the help of a longboat, many trips were made out to the ship to salvage everything that could be of use. Scouting parties sent out in search of food returned w/ news that the island was uninhabited, and there was an abundance of wild hogs, birds, berries, fish, tortoise, and their eggs. Although a great many survivors were content to settle on this lonely island, Sir Thomas Gates asserted his authority, insisting that a ship be built to carry them on to Jamestown.

Shortly thereafter, the keel of the ship "Deliverance" was laid at Building's Bay, near St. George. In building, "Deliverance", much of the salvage from the "Sea Venture" was used; not only carpenter's tools, but also the rigging and wood from the wreckage. However, the vessel was not large enough to carry all of the shipwrecked party, together w/ the neccesary provisions, so Sir George Somers took 20 men to another island, Ordnance Island; and built another smaller ship, called the "Patience".

On May 10, 1610, the two ships set sail for Va.---abt. 130 persons on the "Deliverance" and another 8 persons on the "Patience". Two people remained in Bermuda. Fourteen days later, on 24th May, the ships arrived in Jamestown, Va., where they found the struggling colony in terrible straits. Due to inexperience, fire, rats, and worms devouring the precious grain, and a hard winter, the colony was starving and had dwindled from 600 to 50 persons. As the colony was in dire need of food, Sir George Somers offered to return in the "Patience" to Bermuda to obtain fresh meat and supplies. He set sail in June 1610 accompanied by his nephew, Mathew Somers, and a week after arriving in Bermuda, Sir George died. His nephew buried his heart in Somer's Garden, St. George, Bermuda and his body was taken back to England for burial. What happen to the ship "Deliverence", after leaving Jamestown, has never been determined.

When William Strachey later returned to England he wrote a manuscript entitled: "Letter to a Noble Lady". This manuscript so impressed William Shakespeare that he was inspired to write: the play "The Tempest" which concerns itself with the storm, the shipwreck and the enchanted isle of bermuda.

In 1612 Govenor Moore landed in Bermuda w/ 60 settlers aboard the "Plough" and established a seat of government.
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His property was a 50 acre land grant in what is known today as Newport News Va, just North of Blunt Point.
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ABOUT THE MURDER OF THOMAS GODBEY from Godbey Ancestry.com message board:

On the night of Feb. 8, 1628 the events resulting in the death of Thomas Godby at the hands of William Bentley occurred leading to the trial of William Bentley.

The death of Thomas Godby, in the fourth year of the reign of King Charles, is a fascinating episode in Godby family history. An account of it survives in the
"Journal of Council and General Court of Virginia" (pp. 190-191). A transcription of this is found in The Middleton Family by Beth Engel. Over 370 years after Thomas
Godby’s death, his actual words and actions are preserved in the trial record as reported by two witnesses, Richard Peck and William Parker.

Godby was at William Parker’s house on Merry Point with five others including Richard Peck. After supper, the group shared a bottle of about 5 pints of burnt claret
wine and Thomas Godby had about four cups. William Parker admitted he was a little light headed after eleven o’clock when William Bentley ran aground in Mr.
Conges’ boat on the shoals against Parker’s house.

The impression given is that Bentley was floundering in the water shouting for help to a house of men too busy drinking to pay any attention to what was happening
outside.

In any case, Richard Peck said Bentley came into the house, probably wet and angry, and asked sarcastically if their orders were to hear men call and not come to help
them out of the water. Godby answered him, "Do you think we have nothing to do but to fetch you out of the water?" William Parker’s testimony was that Bentley had
asked why no one in the house had brought light to help him and that Thomas Godby had said, "Was anybody bound to bring you light to fetch you from the
water?" Both Peck and Parker said Bentley told Godby, "Hold your peace, nobody speaketh to you."

This apparently tense moment seemed to pass with all sitting by the fire and "many jesting words" passing between Bentley and Godby but Peck said that Godby "gave Bentley many provoking words" which led to harsher words. After many exchanges, Peck reported that Bently said "Shall we toss some balls?" whereupon Godby said, "If you toss balls to me I will toss the cup in your face." Parker said that Bently called Godby a "cuckold" to which Godby replied, "I would as soon be a cuckold as a cuckold maker." Both witnesses agreed that Godby called Bentley names such as a "rogue", "rascal", and "knave", and Peck said that Bentley replied in kind.

Both witnesses agree that Thomas Godby and William Bentley were sitting beside each other on a bench and at this point, Bentley hit Godby with his left hand on
Godby’s left ear knocking him into the floor. The incident perhaps would have only been a drunken fight except that Bentley then stood and kicked Godby until the
others separated the two.

Thomas Godby then set upon a chest or a chair but cried out, "Oh my belly and my side" and tried to walk two or three turns across the house. Probably in an attempt
to keep the two separate, William Parker advised Godby to go next door to Richard Peck’s house to sleep. Parker and Peck led Thomas Godby outside and Parker went
back to his house leaving Peck and Godby going to Peck’s house. Peck testified that on the way, Godby fell down crying out repeatedly, "Oh, Bentley, thou hast killed
me" and "I am cruelly fixed." Peck and some of the others then carried Godby back to Parker’s house.

Parker said they hadn’t been gone 15 minutes when Godby was brought back and laid on a bed still crying out, "Oh Mr. Bentley, you have killed me" repeatedly and
also saying "Lord have mercy upon us. Lord Jesus receive my soul" before finally laying very quietly. Parker, thinking Godby was now asleep left him but in the
morning found he was dead.

William Bentley was indicted for feloniously killing Thomas Godby against the peace of the King. Bentley pleaded "not guilty" but the 12 jurors convicted him of
manslaughter. When asked what he had to say for himself and why he shouldn’t die for his crime, Bentley demanded his Clergy. A person who could read could claim
"benefit of clergy" and after reading from the Bible as proof be freed from other punishment.

And so Thomas Godby was buried and William Bentley was freed. On October 16, 1629 William Bentley, representing Nuttmegg Quarter (listed next to Elizabeth City),
was seated in the Virginia House of Burgesses along with several of the jurors who convicted him including Richard Kingsmill, John Harris, Thomas Bagwell, and
Thomas Harwood.

Sources
"Lists of the Livinge and Dead in Virginia Febr: 16th 1623"
"Virginia Muster Jan 20-Feb 7, 1624-5"
Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol. 1, 1623-1666 by Nell Nugent
Colonial Surry: Surry People Before the Council and General Court
Colonial Virginia Register Compiled by William G. and Mary N. Stanard
Journal of Council and General Court of Virginia
The Conquest of Virginia by Conway Sams
The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Charles Hatch, Jr.
The Middleton Family by Beth Engel
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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Cheeks, Wilkersons, Elliss, and Gilberts, Indian and Jamestown Connections...

Opechancanough
Opechancanough was the brother of Chief of the Powhatan Tribe Wahunsonacock. His wife was the beautiful woman that the Jamestown colonists called Cleopatra the Shawano. Opechancanough had many children, one of his daughters, we don't know her native name, was given the English name "Rachel".. Rachel was first cousin of Rebecca or "Pochahantas" she is reported to have accompanied Pochahantas to England where she had a relationship with her host Lord Delawar Thomas West 1st governor of Virginia From this relationship was born Totopatamoi "Toby". Also on her fateful trip Rachel met and then married Joseph Crowshaw.. Now the family relationships of the Royal Powhaton tribes get complicated as Rachel's mother Cleopatra was the sister of her cousin Pochahantas.. So her mother was also her cousin..
 Cleopatra

Rachel daughter of Cleopatra and Opechancanough was the first wife of our ancestor  Maj. Joseph Crowshaw 1610 -1667..  Here is the line through the Cheeks and Webbs.


Rachel Pamunkey Indian
is your 9th great grandmother
daughter of Rachel Pamunkey Indian
daughter of Ursala Unity Croshaw
son of Ursula Unity Susanna West
daughter of MARTIN Martin
son of Elizabeth Anne Martin
son of William Webb
son of John Webb
daughter of John "Jack" Webb
daughter of Florence Mildred Webb
son of Alma Mae Wilkerson



 

   Emperor Wahunsonacock Big Chief Powhatan (1545 - 1618
is your 10th great grandfather
daughter of Emperor Wahunsonacock Big Chief Powhatan
son of CLEOPATRA the Shawano Powhatan
son of Hokolesqua Opecham Stream Cornstalk
son of Hard Striker Paxinosa Sunfish
son of Ionoco Shawnee Chief
son of Keigh Tugh Quah Cornstalk
son of Absalom Ailstock
daughter of Andrew Ailstock
daughter of Annie Elizabeth Ailstock
daughter of Ellen F Grigsby
daughter of Bessie Jane Ellis
Are you keeping track cousins, thats three out of four of the family lines are Indian.. How about the fourth, the Wilkersons... Well can't leave them out here is a line back to Hannah Crewes and her rebellious father James who was hanged for his part in Bacons rebellion.. Thats four out of four grandparents with indian and Jamestown ties...

 Moriah "Bland" mother of Hannah Crewes

Moriah Bland Native American (1615 - 1676)
is your 8th great grandmother
daughter of Moriah Bland Native American
son of HANNAH CREWES
son of Giles Carter
daughter of Povall Carter
son of Mary Molly Carter
son of Townsend Wilkerson
son of Robert Wesley Wilkerson
daughter of Calvin Walter Wilkerson
son of Alma Mae Wilkerson
There are more native connections, Grandpa Gilbert has a Cheraw ancestor, her name was Jane Etheredge.. The Cherokee side of the Cheeks that was told to us has been the hardest thing to find but I'm sure its out there probably through Anna Olivia Roberts. There are many Roberts Indians just have to find ours...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Absalom Ailstock

Absalom Ailstock

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
You are the son of Anna Lourie Gilbert


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..

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  • 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".
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