Native Americans in Maryland from Somerset MD

[thunder Hawk]

Greeting, I am also researching Some of my People from Somerset
Maryland Isaac Moore & Wife Elizabeth Hearn , Married 1762
they Moved from Somerset Maryland to Georgia

[thunder Hawk]

Originally posted by thunder Hawk
Greeting, I am also researching Some of my People from Somerset
Maryland Isaac Moore & Wife Elizabeth Hearn , Married 1762
they Moved from Somerset Maryland to Georgia

Wanted to add something to this is any one familure with any of
the Maryland tribes from Somerset area My Moore Family moved
from there in 1795, to Gerogia at this time this was still Muscagogee Terr , or Creek terr, you had to have a Passport
to Pass through Creek terr. I never find one for any of the Moore
Family in this Area, they Moved to Coweta Georgia which was still
Creek Country 1830`s , I believe they that to be of Native American Descent to survive in the Area, My Moore people where
Medicine People My Great GrandMother was Elenor Moore
she was called Ellen Moore, her Husband was James Jackson
Johns , he was and Orphan Born in North Georgia in 1828

[Bill Childs]

This may not be a complete list of Indian People in Maryland, but info mostly from "Pocahontas's People" by Rountree, gives us a list of Maryland People :
Susquehannock, Piscataway, Pocomoke, Portobacco (also in Va.),
Wiccocomico (also in Va.), Nanticoke and Occohannock.
On one of the other Saponitown forum areas, I recently posted some info on Somerset Co., Md. Indian groups but can't remember now which one it was and couldn't find it again !
..........
Indian groups living in Occohannock territory (1705 list made by Robert Beverley - quotes are his):
Metomkin ("much decreased of late by the Small Pox")
Kegotank ("reduc'd to a very few Men")
Machipongo ("has a small number yet living")
Occohannock ("has a small number yet living")
Pungoteague ("Govern'd by a Queen, but a small Nation")
Onancock ("has but four or five families")
Chesconnessex ("has very few who just keep the name")
Nandua, (where the "Empress" lived)("Not above 20 families, but she hath all the Nations of this Shore under Tribute")
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Many of these people migrated frequently between the Virginia, Maryland & Pennsylvania colonies...... passage from "Pocahontas's People", p. 127 :
"In 1697 the Maryland governor wrote of them: "The Eastern Shore Indians remove very often into Virginia and Pennsylvania, so that it is almost impossible to ascertain their numbers. But the Indians of these parts decrease very much, partly owing to smallpox, but the great cause of all is their being so devilishly given to drink."
"The Occohannock groups seem eventually to have merged with groups to the north (in Maryland) and to have given up their tiny reservations in Virginia (Delmarva peninsula) altogether."
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Numbers were hard for the whites to determine indeed.... Robert Beverley (1705 list) should have corresponded with the Gov. of Maryland Colony because Beverley listed several Virginia Indian groups as "extinct" who show up in Virginia records later - one of those, the Chickahominy, were presented by the Virginia Colony with a medal in 1711. A colonial interpreter was still assigned for the Chickahominy in 1723. A large number of them still live in Virginia between the James and York Rivers per Rountree. Pretty resilient for an extinct people !
Bill

[Linda]

Their pow wow is the end of the month.

[thunder Hawk]

Wanted to add something to this is any one familure with any of
the Maryland tribes from Somerset area My Moore Family moved
from there in 1795, to Gerogia at this time this was still Muscagogee Terr , or Creek terr, you had to have a Passport
to Pass through Creek terr. I never find one for any of the Moore
Family in this Area, they Moved to Coweta Georgia which was still
Creek Country 1830`s , I believe they that to be of Native American Descent to survive in the Area, My Moore people where
Medicine People My Great GrandMother was Elenor Moore
she was called Ellen Moore, her Husband was James Jackson
Johns , he was and Orphan Born in North Georgia in 1828


UPDATE: James Jackson Johns was not and Orphan he is from the MONACAN
NATION, his Grandfather and Grandmother are enrolled on the MONACAN
NATION ROLLS from the 1700`s ROBERT JOHNS WIFE MARY , MARY WAS
FULL BLOOD MONACAN , THERE 13th Son was Bartlett C. Johns and Wife
Phebe Angel they moved from Amherst Co. VA 1820 to Georgia hall Co. then
Dekald Co. one of there children Son was JAMES JACKSON JOHNS his Wife
Ellender C Moore , there son William Jackson Johns his daugther was Lucy Delenor Johns my Grandmother her Husband Guy C Rainwater Sr. his son
Guy C. Rainwater Jr. and me Thunder Hawk : UPDATED 03/29/2007