Adcock & West

[itconani]

hey all -
helping out a bit here for a contact of mine.
anyone know about the surnames of Adcock or West coming out of the orange county, NC area?
there is a blackfoot id with this family and am trying to pin down the material. the family is related by blood to Mattaponis several generations later.
any luck?

[Linda]

My second cousin has Wests in Culpepper County marrying Powells in Orange County, VA ca. 1752. (He's sure the Powells line had a lot of Indian blood because of the physical traits in the family. A cousin he has on that Powell line is so Indian looking it's startling.) The Powells married into Stretsburys in the Shenendoah Valley.

Ultimately the Stretsburys settled in the Revells Valley settlement in Vernon County, Wisconsin in the 1850's. Some of the families there applied and were rejected for the Dawes Roll in 1913, so there's a lot of documentation re: the Indian blood in those families. Those people were Bass, Stuarts and Roberts originating from Granville, NC. One of my second cousin's aunts married a Revells in that Wisconsin valley. Those Revells originated out of Robeson County. Small world. Even smaller. Forest is the person who spoke at their family reunion in Wisconsin and told them who they were.

My family were Harrises and Hudsons. I haven't heard yet of anyone else in that WI settlement who identified as Blackfoot, but I've just started talking to them.

[jeanette_schwarz]

Hi! I have family originateing out of Ash co NC. Anyway in my line presumably cherokee Reed married into Hollingsworth and then Powell married into the Indian Reed/Hollingsworth line. In Clay co KY this Powell/Hollandsworth line is counted as Free Persons of Color...the entire household. So apparently, at least this branch of the Powell line was not considered to be white. They appear to have stayed in the KY area
and did not migrate west with the rest of the FPC groups of the family. After the Reed/Hollingsworth group arrived in MO one of its Henson grandchildren married a West. She was believed to be cherokee indian. Her mother's family were believed to have lived in the Franklin co area...They moved to the area prior to 1840. Her father was a white trader "West" who married into the family.

Jeanette

[cawanua]

I have just now found this post, (five years late) but here I am. My maiden name is Adcock. My father was the last male in our branch. His father Jesse Green Adcock's family settled in the Granville, Vance, and Warren Counties of North Carolin in the early 1700's. Their patriarch migrated from Virginia where the roots go back to the early 1600's.
Cawanua

[spilleddi]

Hi Linda, I'm descent from those Orange Co Virginia Powells you mention in your post. I haven't heard anything about them being Indian, and grandma says they came from Wales. But I haven't really researched them yet. I do know they married more then once into my Riddell/Riddle family that were in Orange county Virginia in the early 1700's.