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Erwin Matthew [Male]
Thanks to the Blankenstein Genealogy net for the following Erwin FamilyInformationi:
Origins of the Erwin Family Name - Scottish English Border Ridings
Components of the Coat of Arms - The Shield is: Three clumps of greenholly leaves on a silve r background. The Crest is: A spray of hollyleaves.
Book titled "Samuel Ferguson who married Mary Jameson"
"Elizabeth Davidson Harbaugh, who wrote Davidson Genealogy, Œon page 292,also wrote that Will iam Jamesons eldest son, John, born circa 1723, camewith his parents to Augusta County and m arried Jean Erwin, daughter ofMATTHEW and ELIZABETH ERWIN. Further information on the Erwin f amilyincluded the Will of MATTHEW ERWIN, dated 19 April 1755, which named JeanErwin, alias Ja meson, as a daughter (Augusta County Will Book 3, page178)."
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Records of Augusta County, Va 1745-1800 Chalkey 1965
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Page 39 August 24, 1749. (161) Ann, wife of George Breckinridge,relinquished dower in deed, B reckenridge to MATHEW ERWIN.
Page 99 August 18, 1762 (289) Edward Warner, witness to will of MATHEWERWIN. Œ
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Page 91 page 178-19th April 1755, MATHEW ERWINs will: to wife,ELIZABETH; to daughter, Genne t Erwin, alias Johnson; to daughter JeanErwin, alias Jamison; to daughter Agnes; to daughte r Mary Erwin, aliasFrancis; to daughter Ellinor Erwin, alias Patterson; t daughter,Elizabet h Erwin; to daughter Ann Erwin, alias Anderson. Executrix, wifeELIZABETH. John Francis to b e overseer. Teste: James Bell, Alex. Blair,Edward Warner. Proved, 18th August, 1762, by Bel l and Warner. ELIZABETHrefuses to execute. Administration granted John Francis, who qualifies ,with James Bell, William Frame.
Page 272 page 135-15th September, 1748. George Brackenridge to MATHEWERWIN. Corner Samuel Lus k. Teste: John Francis, James Patterson, Robt.Alexander.
Page 463 page 145-24th February, 1769. ELIZABETH ERWIN ( ) to EdwardBraden, L45, 200 acres fo rmerly conveyed from George Breckenridge toMATHEW ERWIN, 15th February, 1748, and devised t o ELIZABETH by MATHEW;corner Samuel Lusk. Teste: James Bell, John Francis. Delivered: ELIZABE THERWIN, 27th July, 1772.
Page 533 page 374-17th August, 1773. Edward ( ) Braden and Elilzabeth ( )to Beorge Breakinrid ge of Fincastle County, tract formerly conveyed byGeorge to MATHEW ERWIN.
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The Davidson Genealogy by Elizabeth Davidson Harbaugh
Page 29 John Jameson, b abt. 1723, came with his parents, to Augusta Co.,m ca 1745 to Jean, d au of MATTHEW and ELIZABETH ERWIN.
Will of MATTEHW ERWIN 19 Apr., 1755, in which he names the followingchildren:
Genet Erwin, alias Johnston, dau Jean Erwin, Alias Jameson, dau Agnes,dau Mary Erwin, alias F rancis, dau Ann Erwin, alias Andwrson, EleinorErwin, alias Petterson, dau Elizabeth, Wife Eli zabeth, exex. Admrs. JohnFrancis, James Bell, William Frame.
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Carrickmavross, Monaghan Ulster, Ireland
Adams Co., PA
Franklin Twp., Adams, PA
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There is no known connection between the family of Thomas Jamison ofAdams Co., PA to those i n Rutherford Co., TN thus far in my research.This record is provided to allow researchers t o perhaps provi de themissing link.
The Thomas Jamison of Adams County, PA is provided fromhttp://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cot tage/gen19700.html, however, thislink is no longer active.
The Jamisons left Ireland some years after the minor emigration ofScotch-Irish that sailed i n 1734-35 and settled in the southwest portionof Adams county, Pennsylvania. They sailed aboa rd the ship " William andMary" arriving in 1742 in Philadelphia. During the ocean voyage thei rfourth child, Mary, was born to them upon storm-tossed seas whichfore-shadowed the events o f her life in America.
Mr. Jamison was a thrifty, industrious man and greatly liked by thecommunity at large. In tim e he had razed the wooded land along thefrontier near the source of the Marsh Creek into a la rge growing farm.Two additional children born to him and Jane marked their swift progressi n a wild territory largely settled by the Scotch-Irish and swarming withIndians. In 1754 th e Jamisons moved their home a short way upon theirland settling into Buchanan Valley, then kn own as Pleasant Valley whichwas six miles in length and two miles wide. The Jamison land encr oachedupon the valley from the east and was previously owned by Joseph I. Leverand later wa s sold to Francis Cole after 1755 *(1). In that year theFrench and Indian War commenced at Gr eat Meadows when the Virginianforce, 150 men, under Lt. Col. George Washington, was driven ba ck fromFort Duquesne(Fort Necessity) by the French led by Coulon de Villiers inthe Ohio terri tory. Among the men under Washington was John Jamison, astradit ion would have it*(2), a brot her of Thomas Jamison, killed inaction on that fateful day of July 3rd. Tradition states tha t theseJamisons were part of a family of Jamisons from Leith, Scotland tied i nwith Henry Jam ison, James Jamison, and William(of Maine) and John(ofBoston) Jamison, brothers who came ove r in 1718 *(3).
In the spring of 1755, the Jamisons were attacked by Indians. In separatereports of the circu mstances by Mary Jamison, herself, and Mrs. RobertBleakney *(4) some years later the followin g events tra nspired. ThomasJamison was shaving an axe-halve at the side of the cabin, whil e Mrs.Jamison, Mary, Matthew, Robert, Mrs. Buck and her three children wereinside preparing b reakfast. Mary's two oldes t brothers were working nearthe barn and Robert Buck stood near th e front door of the house. When thealarm was first raised with a volley of shot, Mrs. Jamison , upon openingthe door, saw Mr. Buck d ead upon the ground. Mr. Jamison was capturedand tie d up by some of the six Shawanee Indians and four Frenchmenpresent. They rushed the house an d took Mrs. Jamison, Matthew, Robert,Mary, Elizabeth, Mrs. Buck, and her three children as pr isoners whileplundering the cabin of its contents. Thomas and John Jamison, the eldestsons, h id
inside a hollowed out log near the barn and escaped the slaughter thatbefell their family an d friends. Both boys left Adams county and settledin with their maternal grandfather, Mr. Erw ins, in Virgi nia.
With their ten captives the perpetrators traveled westward passing a fortat Chambersburg cont inuing until the following day when they camped at adismal swamp. Knowing they were pursued b y a determin ed band ofneighbors from Buchanan Valley, led by a Mr. Field's, the Frenchmen an dShawanees, burdened by so many captives, killed and scalped Mr. and Mrs.Jamison, Elizabeth , Robert, Matthew, Mrs. Bu ck and two of her children.Mary and a son of the Bucks' remained a nd were taken by two Indian squawsin a small canoe down the Ohio River to a small Seneca tow n calledShe-nan-jee. There Mary Jamison was given a suit of Indian clothes andformally adopte d into the tribe as Deh-he-wa-mis, meaning pretty girl. Noother records indicate what had hap pened to the Buck boy.
In the meantime many of the remaining Scots-Irish, including theBleakneys removed to Conowag o for protection. Hance Hamilton, a neighbor,was not idle either raising a 200 man militia fr om the surrou nding areaand became its Captain. Mr. Fields' relief party of six men were in h otpursuit speedily moving in on the enemy as they tracked them down duringthe next two days . But the massacre at the s wamp and the bloodied andnaked forms of the slain was too much fo r Fields and his party when theycame upon the grizzly scene. They soon returned to their tow n saddenedand disheartened by the unexpe cted murders. With Hamilton, they embarkedon defendi ng the territory settling their scores in the defense pushingthe frontier further west towar d Ohio.
In Virginia a John{Jonathan} Jamison resided in Augusta county with hiswife, Jane Erwin, an d their nine children. He and Jane were both born inIreland and after emigrating to the Virgi nia Plantation married in present day Augusta county. Mrs. Jamison was a daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Hobson?) Erwin of Tinkling Springs, Augusta co., VA. BothMatthew and Elizabeth show up in Thomas and Jane Erwin Jamison's list of children. While evidence is not conclusive a nd considered vague concerning the John Jamison under the command of George Washington in1754 , speculation persists circumstantial ly that the John Jamison inAugusta co., VA. may have been a brother of the foregoing Thomas Jamison. Who better than relatives should the sons, Thomas and John Jamison, flee to in 1755 after the Indian massacre? In the same area as Matthew Erwin and John Jamison was a William and Margaret Jamison of Tinkling Springs.The couple in 1769 sold to John and Jane Erwin Jamison for 55 pounds a 310 acre farm. This resulted in a 45 pound lost for them having purchased the tract in 1765 from William Martin for 100 pounds. The transaction wasan "Estate of Inheritance in fee simple". Could William and Margaret have been Thomas' and John's parents? Or was William Jamison his brother? What happened to them after 1769? Did they live on their son's farm after selling it to him? To this is further added another record of a John Jamison, born in 1752 and who died in 1790, They resided in York, then later in Marsh Creek, Adams Co., PA
Rockbridge co., VA.*(5) He married Barbara Carlock in 1782 and they hadthe following children :
James, b. 1782;
John, b.c. 1783;
Jane, b.c. 1785;
Catherine, b.c. 1787;
and two daughters of whom nothing is known. Besides the obvious naming ofthe children above , John's grandson, Samuel M. Jamison, his son's James'son, removed in 1824 to Williamson an d Davidson count ies, TN. The familythen moved on to Dent co., MO. between 1830 and 1833.
The connections to Adams Co., PA. and Augusta co., VA. are tenuous andstrife with uncertainty , but further documentation from another sourceindicates that Thomas and Jane Jamison's son , Thomas, appe ars to havehad descendants. This will be explored in the follow-up section o n theson. Add to all of this that the Jamison's out of Rockbridge, latternamed among the abov e group of people, moved on to the same area ofTennessee as Thomas Jamison did and speculatio n takes on a decidedlycircumstantial turn, instead.
Another Account:
Notes for Thomas Jemison:
Thomas Jemison and his wife Jane Erwin were probably born in Ireland intofamilies that "posse ssed wealth and honorable stations." Three of theirchildren were born in Ireland: John, Thoma s, and Betsy . The family leftBelfast on the ship William and Mary and landed in Philadelphi a probablyon October 6, 1743 [There was another voyage of the ship which arrivedPhiladelphi a in late December 1742 or early January 1743.] Their fourthchild, Mary, was born during th e voyage. The family settled on a "tractof excellent land lying on Marsh Creek" in York Co, P ennsylvania, in thewestern part of the state, about ten miles north of present-dayGettysburg . Two other children followed, Matthew about 1746 and Robertabout 1749.
On April 5, 1758 six Shawnee Indians and four French soldiers attackedthe homestead. Thomas , Jane, Betsy, Matthew, and Robert were killed thenight after they were captured and Mary wa s taken into c aptivity. Shegrew up with the Indians, eventually marrying and raising eight c hildrenby two Indian fathers. John and Thomas escaped and subsequently foundtheir way to "th e Great Valley" of Virgini a where their grandfatherErwin was living. [a]
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[a] James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, ed.and with an introductio n by
June Namias, (1824, Rpt. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1992)
References:
1] Smith Collection of Virginia; 2] History of Rockbridge co., VA., 1920,Morton, p.495; 3] Wi ll of John Jamison(40700), 3/15/1790, bk.1,p.373,
Augusta co., VA; 4] Virginia Valley Records, p.188; 5] Early Middle TN.Marriages, Sistler, 19 85; 6] Augusta co., VA(deeds), k.16,ps.154-157;
bk.11,ps. 773,816,817; 7] Chalkley, v.3,ps.91,418,420; 8] Virginia Willsbefore 1799, bk.5,p.4 06(John Jamison's will(40900)); 9] History of AdamsCo., PA., ps.8-11,25,252,253,256; 10] Th e Life of Mary Jemison, James E.Seaver, 1918,1925rev.; 11] Indian Captive-A Story of Mary Jem ison, LoisLenski, 1941; 12] The White Woman and Her Valley, Arch Merrill, StratfordPress, n o date; 13] Biographical Me moirs of Mississippi, Goodspeed,1891, ps.1018,1014;
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From Betty Jamison Swann - bswann@@doglover.com
Left a will, filed 5/20/1826. Actually spelled name "Jemison". From theKosciusko, MS Star-Her ald, August 9, 1973: Thomas Jamison was born inUlster County, Ireland, 1738, and died in Albe rmarle Co, V A, Sept 6,1823. This man's parents were massacred by Indians in Pennsylvania whe nhe was young. (My notes: He and his brother John escaped April 5, 1758 byhiding in the bar n or in a log and ran to V irginia to their maternalgrandparents's farm, Matthew and Elizabet h Erwin, born in Ireland.) Hewas twice married, the second time on April 10, 1788, to Rachel McCollock. His known children were as f ollows: Thomas Jr., Mary (Polly),Frances (Fannis) who married a Cooper, Clarrissa, Jeremiah, Hugh Black,Elizabeth, Sarah (Sally), and Henry D. fo ught in Revolutionary War.
Thomas Jamison served in the Illinois Regulars under George R. Clark. Hewas Sgt. Thomas Jamison. Served 1/12/1779-5/28/1780
Attala County descendents include Misses Mabel and Ollie Frances Jamison,Elizabeth Cooper o f Attala County and Houston, Texas. There are also anumber of descendants in Leake County.
It is interesting to note that his descendants were among the first settlers of this area, com ing in a 16-family wagon train down the NatchesTrace. The leaders of this group had fought with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of 1812, had returned to Tennessee and Kentucky by way of the Natches Trace, liked the looks of the country here, and came back to settle.
Thomas Jamison fought in the Revolutionary War, hence DAR membership.
My notes: Thomas and Rachel were the parents of Hugh Black Jamison, whowas father of Willia m Hugh, grandfather of Mansy, great grandfather ofWoodson, great, great grandfather of Willie Mack, great, great, greatgrandfather of Betty Jamison Swann. Thomas Jamison would have been Betty's 4G grandfather.
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Thomas Jamison left Pennsylvania in 1755, right after the murders of hisparents and siblings . He removed to Virginia with his brother, John,possibly to Augusta co., VA. where a number o f the Erwins were residingat the time and there settled down to a much quieter life than th e oneexperienced in Adams county. He moved westward to Tennessee and settledinto the Rutherfo rd county area.
Captured, killed & scalped by French & Shawnees of rural farming class
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Another Account from WikiTree by Dave Rutherford:
Thomas settled his family in the Marsh Creek area of what would become Adams County, Pennsylvania. They were actually squatting on what was Iroquois land. During the Seven Years War, there were many atrocities performed upon the settlers along the frontier. In early April 1758, their farmstead was attacked and plundered and Thomas and his family were taken captive. Thomas was slaughtered along with his wife and three of his children by the French and Indian raiders who had abducted them from their farm. Only their daughter, Mary, survived.
Several family trees list William Jameson and Sarah Collins as Thomas' parents, leading back to the line of Sir James Jameson. Mary does state in her Narrative (see Mary Jemison) that her parents told her that the family had "wealth and honorable station" in their home country. But if they do trace back to the same family, I don't think it is through William & Sarah. Sarah was born in Pennsylvania about 1697 and William came from Ulster with his parents in 1713. So they must have married and raised their family in the New World. Thomas was born in Ulster and came over in 1743. So I have left his parents blank, for now.
From Ancestry.com - White Family Tree : Ancestors of Walter G. White.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Dave Rutherford for starting this profile.
Not clean when or if the name changed from Jameson or Jamison. Differentsources use each.
Most sources have John and a minority have Johnathan/Jonathan. He usedthe name John in lega l documents.
A book titled Samuel Ferguson who married Mary Jameson
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Elizabeth Davidson Harbaugh, who wrote Davidson Genealogy, stated on page291 that the Jameso n family was of Celtic origin and that they migratedfrom Scotland to Ireland in 1616. She fur ther writes that James Jameson,the Scotch-Irish progenitor, migrated to North America , wit h wife Janeand their seven children, settling in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Hedied prio r to 1743, the year his estate was settled. William Jameson, oneof their sons, was born 169 7 and married Sarah Collins 28 march 1722(Christ Church, Philadelphia. William and Sarah move d to Augusta County,Virginia, circa 1745, where he qualified for Justice November 1751. Hiswi ll, written 20 December 1752 and proved 21 March 1753, named his eldestson JOHN, sons George , Andrew and William, and wife Sarah, who wasexecutrix (Augusta Co. will Book 1, page 472). M rs. Harbugh on page 292,also wrote that William Jamesons eldest son, JOHN born circa 1723, c amewith his parents to Augusta County and married JEAN ERWIN, daughter ofMatthew and Elizabet h Erwin. ΠThe writer also asserted that Mary Jamesonwas the daughter of JOHN and JEAN (ERWIN ) JAMESON. JOHN JAMESONs Will,written 29 February 1776 and proven 19 March 1776, named his w ife JANE(JEAN), grandson John Peery, granddaughter Sarah McNabb and ninechildrenno names giv en (Augusta County Will Book 5, page 405).
Homer F. Dean finds nothing concrete on Mary Jamesons parentage. He haschosen the same JOH N JAMESON as a possibility for her father, as did thewriter of Davidson. He favored this JOH N JAMESON because his Willincluded a grandson who was a Peery. Our Samuel and Mary seemed t o havehad a relationship with the Peerys. Homer further reasons that in 1776,when JOHN JAMESO N wrote his will, he was old enough to have nine childrenand at least two grandchildren. Ou r Mary Jameson was married in 1760s,so John should have been the one generation older. Home r also guessed theWilliam Jameson, who married Sarah and wrote his will in 1752, to be thefat her of the above JOHN. His will mentioned a son JOHN. However, it ispossible that William an d JOHN, whose wills are both entered in AugustaCounty, could be brothers: Mary Jameson coul d have been a daughter of theWilliam Jameson whose will was written in 1752, although daughte rs arenot mentioned in his will. But it does seem probable that WilliamJamesons eldest son , JOHN, is the JOHN with wife Jane, and whose will isrecorded in 1776.
Jo Ann Whitson Cuddy, another Jameson researcher, has covered AugustaCounty records as best s he could and states, "Everything ends up in thehands of one lady genealogist who asserts ve hemently that she exhaustedthe records on that problem years ago and there isnt anything els ethere. JOHN JAMESON, believed to be the father of our Mary, mentions hisnine children but do es not name them in his will."
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Pennsylvania Births, Philadelphia Co., 1644-1765 Humphrey 974.811
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JAMESON, JOHN bp 20 Mar 1723 William Sarah 3
Jameson, William bp 20 Ma 1723 William Sarah 3
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Chronicles of the Scotch Irish Settlement in Virginia - Augusta Co.Chalkey 975.591 V 1,2,3
Page 278 Page 450 27th February 1749. Same to JOHN JAMISON, 104 acres onBack Creek in Beverl y Manor. Corner Ro. Davis. Samuel Wallaces line.Hugh Youngs land. Teste: John Henderson.
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Page 27 Page 472 20 December 1752 William Jamisons will. Wife Sarahexecutrix. Eldest son, JO HN; 237 acres on Jackson River. Sons, George andAndrew. Son, William. Teste: Saml. Hodge, Tho s. Gillham 21st march 1753,proved by both witnesses, and Sarah qualified with sureties Davi d Dryden,Robert Armstrong.
Page 53 August 20, 1752 (316) Patrick Martin & Alexr. Richey to beoverseers of road from Youn gs Mill to Alexr. Richeys smith shop, thenceto Buchanans mills, with these hands: ŒJames P eary, ŒJOHN JAMESONŒ
Page 56 November 21, 1752 (410) ΠJOHN JAMESON Πto work the road underSaml. Wallace from to p of North Mountain to this Co. Ho.
Page 57 March 21, 1753 (414) ΠJOHN JAMESONΠto keep road formerly laidoff from James Young s Mill to said Buchanans Mill.
Page 91 Page 408 20 August 1765. John Pearys bond (with JOHN and Wm.JAMISON) as guardian (ch osen) to Thomas Peary, orphan of Thomas Peary.
Page 443 1753-1774 Part 1 Petitioners ask the following be assigned towork the road from Jame s Youngs mill to John Buchanans mill: ŒJOHNJAMESONŒ
Page 315 May 1755 (A) Rasmey vs. JAMESONS and Gay. John Ramsey, assigneeof Charles Donnelly , who was assignee of John Handly, complains of JOHNJAMESON and Robert Gay, and Sarah, his wi fe, late Sarah Jameson. Bonddated 1754. Signed, Sarah Jameson.
Page 69 November 22, 1755 (514) JOHN JAMESON qualified Ensign of Troop ofHorse.
Page 429 Page 159 21st August 1765. William McFeeters and Mary ( ) aliasMary Perey, executor s of Thomas Peary (Peery), to Samuel McNab (Mary waswidow of Thomas but is not married to Wil liam), L42, 225 acres on MiddleRiver of Shanandore; corner John Campbells land. Teste: Joh n Malcom,JOHN JAMESON, David Frame.
Page 493 Page 156 6th November 1769 William Jameson and Margaret to JOHNJAMESON, L55, on Chri stians Creek, whereon William now lives conveyed toWilliam by William Martin, 19th March 176 5, 310 acres; corner WilliamPalmer; corner George Robinson, now Samuel Blacks land, plot sur veyedfor Mr. William Russell now Alexander Thompsons land. Teste: WilliamPalmer, Jean ( ) Pa lmer, William ( ) Calin. Delivered: Samuel Ferguson,17th August 1722.
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The Davidson Genealogy by Elizabeth Davidson Harbaugh P291-2
JOHN JAMESON, b abt 1723, came with his parents, to August Co., m ca 1745to JEAN, dau of Matt hew and Elizabeth Erwin. Œ
Abstract of the Will of JOHN JAMESON, Will Book No 5, p. 405, AugustaCo., Va.
To wife JANE, to grandson, John Peery, granddaughter, Sarah McNabb, tonine children (no name s given). Executors, Robert Armstrong, DanielOFriel. Test. John Temple, John Young, Robert W allace. Proved 19thMarch, 1776 by Trimble and Wallace.
[Note by Dianne - parents wills naming them are under information on theparents.]
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Mary Jemison "White Woman of the Genesee"
Mary was a Scotch/Irish immigrant born on ship William & Mary at sea to Thomas & Mary Erwin. Spent rest of her life with the Indians. She married 2 chiefs. her two brothers escaped the raid: Thomas & John, by hiding in the barn. Some say a brother, George, was captured and raised by Indians in OK. Thomas & John were sent to their grandfather Erwin, in Va to be raised. (Matth ew Erwin of Chalkey, Au gusta Co., VA/WV)From:http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/Dpuy/du/Mix/jemison.html
From: http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/Dpuy/du/Mix/billygreen.html#319
Mary Jemison /Dehgewanus ("Two Falling Voices")
Mary Jemison
Age 90 b. 6 Oct. 1743 on board "William & Mary", enroute from N. Ireland
d. 19 Sep. 1833 Buffalo [Creek] Res., Erie, PA
had 14+ ggrandchildren at time of death
Captured 1758
moved Summer 1763 to Little Beardstown (near Cuylerville, Livingston), NY
moved 1779 to Gadaho (now Castle, Wyoming), NY . This became GardeauRes., 1797
moved 1831 to Buffalo Creek Res., Erie, PA
Related story 1824 to James Everett Seaver
Mary jad 14+ ggrandchildren at time of death
No Known relationship to Thomas Allen Jamison of Rutherford Co., TN
REF: http://www.rootsweb.com/~msleake/cemeteries/bethesda.txt
One ancestry.com family tree has (639ii_d) Hugh Black Jamison son of Thomas Jamison (s/o Thos . Jemison and Susan Pollock) and Jane unknown. Other sites list much the same children as show n here for (6 39ii)Thomas, but show the children as those of Rachel McCullock -- who married a Thomas Jemison [almost certainly not (639ii)] on 6 Sep. 1823 in Albemarie Co., VA.
Many women and children were abducted in Indian raids in the 17th and18th centuries, but th e vast majority were repatriated to their familiesbefore bearing substantial Indian families . In Mary Jemis on's account,she mentions only one other young woman in her condition; and th eoccasion of their meeting was notable because this was Mary's firstopportunity to converse i n English for years. Perhap s 20 women were insuch circumstances in NY and Ontario when our a ncestor (89) Margaret wasborn in the 1790s. A sampling of the first names of Mary Jameson'sch ildren and grandchildren shows that no more than 1/20 of them werenamed "Margaret". On this b asis alone, there is an even chance thatMary's granddaughter was identical with our Margaret . When coupled withthe DNA evidence, this is convin cing proof of a connection.
"Some of (Mary's) descendants adopted white customs, others followedIndian ways, and, there a re today, many Native-Americans, particularly inNew York and Pennsylvania, who are named Jemi son, Jemson, Jimmerson, orsome other corruption of Mary's name."
-- http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/JAMESON/1998-11/0910934376
"My Father's name was Thomas Jemison, and my mother's, before hermarriage with him, was Jan e Erwin. Their affection for each other wasmutual, and of that happy kind which tends directl y to sweeten t he cupof life; to render connubial sorrows lighter, to assuage everydiscontent ment; and to promote not only their own comfort, but that ofall who come within the circle o f their acquaintance ...the y were strictobservers of religious duties; for it was the dail y practice of myfather, morning and evening, to attend, in his family, to the worship ofGod.
"Resolved to leave the land of their nativity, they removed from theirresidence to a port i n Ireland, where they lived but a short time beforethey set sail for this country, in the yea r 1742 or 3, o n board the shipMary William, bound to Philadelphia...
"In Europe my parents had two sons and one daughter, whose names wereJohn, Thomas and Betsey ; with whom, after having put their effects onboard, they embarked, leaving a large connexio n of relatives andfriends...
"My father being fond of rural life, and having been bred to agriculturalpursuits, soon lef t the city, and removed his family to the then frontiersettlements of Pennsylvania... on Mars h creek.
"During this period my mother had two sons... the oldest was namedMatthew, and the other Robe rt...
"(during the Indian attack): They first secured my father, and thenrushed into the house, an d without the least resistance made prisoners ofmy mother, Robert, Matthew, Betsey, the woma n and ther thr ee children,and myself...
"My two brothers, Thomas and John, being at the barn, escaped and went toVirginia, where my g randfather Erwin then lived, as I was informed by aMr. Fields, who was at my house about th e close of the revolutionarywar...
"As soon as I had finished my supper, an Indian took off my shoes andstockings and put a pai r of moccasins on my feet, which my motherobserved; and believing that they would spare my li fe, even if t heyshould destroy the other captives, addressed me as near as I can rememberi n the following words: "'My dear little Mary, I fear that the time hasarrieve when we must b e parted forever. Your life, my child, I think willbe spares; but we shall probably be tomaha wked here in this lonesomeplace by the Indians... Be careful and not forget your English tong ue. Ifyou shall have an opportunity to get away from the Indians, don't try toescape; for i f you do they will find and destroy you. Don't forget, mylittle daughter, the prayers tha t I have learned you -- say them often;be a good child, and God will bless you. May God bles s you my child, andmake you comfortable and happy...'
"My suspicions as to the fate of my parents proved too true; for soonafter I left them they w ere killed and scalped, together with Robert,Matthew, Betsey and the woman and her two childr en, and mang led in themost shocking manner."
-- Mary Jemison autobiography
Thos Jemison Descendants.pdf has (639i) John as William. (639iii) Thomas'daughter Sarah is sh own to have married William H. Cooper, but she seemsto have been confused here with another S arah Jamison .
The Jameson/ Jemison name first appeared in the Isle of Bute, off the W.coast of Scotland
Mother, Mary Jemison/Jamison was captured by Indians when most of herfamily were killed durin g an Indian Raid.
Her parents were either Thomas Jemison/Jamison or John Jemison/Jamisonand Jane "Jean" Erwin o r Mary Jane Erwin, daughter of Matthew Erwin andElizabeth Hobson. This lineage needs furthe r study as the re are severalconflicting reports, though there is a family lineage of Mary (s aid to bewritten 10 years before Mary's death. I have not yet seen a copy of this,so at thi s point, it is speculation.
Thomas married 4 times and had: BySquakie Wife, a son, Buffalo Tom; ByCayuga Wife, James Jemi son/Jamison; a daughter; By 1st Seneca Wife, son,daughter, George; By 2nd Seneca Wife, jacob , Goansan, Un k child, JohnJesse.
Another account:
Mary was born on board the ship William and Mary while enroute fromIreland to Philadelph ia, Pennsylvania. Mary was the only one of herfamily not murdered by the Indians, she was tak en captive a nd lived outher life with the Indians, she tried returning to the "white man's"s ociety many years after her abduction, but just could not adjust. Thereare at least 3 books w ritten about Mary's expe riencies. "A Narrative ofthe life of Mrs. Mary Jemison" by James E . Seaver..this book is a 1stperson narrative that was told to James Seaver in 1824.
The book "White Woman and her Valley" by Arch Merrill is also the storyof Mary. There is a no vel based on her live, "Mary Jemison, White Womanof the Seneca" by Rayna M. Ganagi. In upstat e New York a t LetchworthPark her cabin is preserved and there is a statue of Mary. Mary wa s borncirca 1742 in Aboard ship William and Mary. She was the daughter ofThomas Jemison and J ane Erwin. She married She ninjee ( ? ) circa 1760.She married Hickatoo ( ? ) circa 1765. Mar y died on 19 September 1833 inBuffalo Creek, Seneca Indian Reservation.
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Narritive at
http://www.historyandwomen.com/2010/01/mary-jemison-1743-1833.html
I was born to Thomas and Jane Jemison aboard the ship William and Mary in the fall of 1743 while en route from Northern Ireland to America. Upon our arrival in America, my parents joined other Irish American immigrants and headed west from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to what was then the western frontier (now central Pennsylvania) and squatted on territory that was under the authority of the Iroquois Confederacy.
During the time my parents were establishing our home, the French and Indian War was raging. One morning in 1755, a capturing party consisting of six Shawnee Indians and four Frenchmen captured me, my family (except for my two older brothers) and Davy Wheelock a boy from another family.
On route to Fort Duquesne (where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to create the Ohio River in modern-day Pittsburgh), my mother, father, and siblings were killed and scalped. I and the other young boy were spared. Once the party reached the Fort, I was given to two Seneca Indians, who took me downriver. The Senecas adopted me, calling me Deh-he-wä-mis, which means - a pretty girl, a handsome girl, or a pleasant, good thing. I was later renamed "little woman of great courage" by the Indians.
I married a Delaware named Sheninjee and had a son who I named Thomas after my father. Concerned that the end of the war would mean the return of captives, Sheninjee took me on a 700-mile (1,100 km) journey to the Sehgahunda Valley along the Genesee River. Although I reached this destination, my husband did not. He had left me in order to hunt, had took ill and died.
Now a widow, I was taken in by Sheninjee's clan relatives and made my home at the Little Beard's Town (present-day Cuylerville, New York). I married a Seneca named Hiakatoo and had six more children.
Much of the land at Little Beard's Town was sold by the Senecas to white settlers in 1797. At that time, during negotiations with the Holland Land Company held at Geneseo, New York, I proved to be an able negotiator for the Seneca tribe and helped win more favorable terms for giving up their rights to the land at the Treaty of Big Tree.
In 1823, most of the remainder of the land was sold, except for a 2-acre (8,100 m2) tract of land reserved for my use. Known locally as the "White Woman of the Genesee", I lived on the tract until I sold it in 1831 and moved to the Buffalo Creek Reservation.
I lived the rest of my life with the people of the Seneca Nation until I died on September 19, 1833. I was initially buried on the Buffalo Creek Reservation, but in 1874 was reinterred at William Pryor Letchworth's Glen Iris Estate (now Letchworth State Park in present day Castile, New York). A bronze statue of me, created in 1910, marks my grave.
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April 5, 1758. " The party that took us consisted of 6 Indians and 4 Frenchmen, who immediately commenced plundering.They set out with their prisoners with great haste, for fear of detection, and soon entered the woods."-Mary Jemison
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Per Carrie Turpin on Jemison Family Genealogy:
Descendants of Mary Jemison:
1 Mary Jemison b: 06 Oct 1743, on the Mary & William, Atlantic Ocean
..+Sheninjee (She-Nin-Jee) b: Abt. 1741, poss. Scioto, OH
.....2 Baby Girl Jemison b: Bet. 1758 - 1761; d:,,,fancy
.....2 Thomas Jemison b: Apr 1762, Scioto, OH
.........+Cayuga Wife b: Abt. 1761
.............3 James Jamieson
.................+Jemima
.................... 4 William Jamieson b: Abt. 1813
........................+Catherine Claus
.................... 4 David Jamieson b: Abt. 1815, Brant, Ont., Can
........................+Susannah Longfish
.................... *2nd Wife of David Jamieson:
........................+Lacretia Russell
.................... 4 James Jamieson b: 15 Mar 1819, Brant, Ont., Can
........................+Julia Ann Garlow b: 05 Jan 1836, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Alec Jamieson b: Abt. 1850, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Benjamin Jamieson b: 11 Aug 1852, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Sarah Ann Jamieson b: 05 Sep 1854, Brant, Ont., Can
................................+Elijah William General
............................5 Mark Jamieson b: 05 Feb 1857, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Mary Jamieson b: 05 May 1859, Brant, Ont., Can
................................+James Styres
............................5 Julia Ann Jamieson b: 30 Jan 1861, Brant, Ont., Can
................................+Louis Jacobs
............................5 James Jamieson b: 01 Jul 1863, Brant, Ont., Can
................................ +Minnie McNaughton
............................5 Robert Jamieson b: 11 Jul 1865, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Margaret Jamieson b: 04 Jul 1867, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 "Little Benny" Jamieson b: 12 Jun 1873, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Clara Duffrin Jamieson b: 25 Aug 1874, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Matthew Jamieson b: 23 Jan 1877, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Monica (Venice) Jamieson b: 1879, Brant, Ont., Can
................................+Lydia Bennett
.................... 4 Jacob Jamieson b: 1821, Brant, Ont., Can
........................+Catherine
............................5 Hiram Jamieson b: 1856, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 E?son Jamieson b: 1858, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Lucretia Jamieson b: 1862, Brant, Ont., Can
.................... *2nd Wife of Jacob Jamieson:
........................+Sarah Maracle
............................5 Lucy Jamieson b: 1866
............................5 David Jamieson b: 1868
............................5 Susannah Jamieson b: Jul 1870
............................5 Alexandre Jamieson b: Abt. 1872
............................5 Margaret Jamieson b: Abt. 1874
............................5 Austin Jamieson b: Abt. 1876
............................5 Charlotte Jamieson b: Abt. 1878
............................5 Christopher Jamieson b: 12 Aug 1880, Brant, Ont., Can
................................+Delilah (Lily) Davis b:, Brant, Ont., Can
............................5 Ellen Jamieson b: Abt. 1882, Brant, Ont., Can
................................+John Lewis
.................... 4 John Jamieson
.................... 4 George Jamieson
........................+Wedge (or Wodge)
.................... 4 Albert Jamieson
.................... 4 Jesse Jamieson
.................... 4 Beaty (Betty) Jamieson
........................+(???) Nanticook
.................... 4 Lydia Jamieson
........................+(???) General
.................... 4 (H)Ester Jamieson
........................+(???) Martin
.............3 A Daughter Jamieson
.....*2nd Wife of Thomas Jemison:
.........+Squakie Wife
.....*3rd Wife of Thomas Jemison:
.........+Seneca Wife
*2nd Husband of Mary Jemison:
..+Hiokatoo
.....2 John Jemison b: Abt. 1766, Genesee Reservation, NY
.........+Seneca Wife Two
.............3 John (Jemison) b: Abt. 1792, NY
.............3 Hannah Sundowner (Jemison) b: Abt. 1794, NY
.............3 William (Jemison) b: Abt. 1796, NY
.............3 Polly (Jemison) b: Abt. 1798, NY
.....*2nd Wife of John Jemison:
.........+Seneca Wife One
.............3 Sam (Jemison) b: Abt. 1792, NY
.............3 Jane (Jackson) (Jemison) b: Abt. 1794, NY
.............3 Nancy (Pierce) (Jemison) b: Abt. 1796, NY
.....2 Nancy Jemison b: May 1773, Genesee Reservation, NY
.........+Bill Green b: Abt. 1769, NY
.............3 John Green b: Abt. 1795, NY
.............3 Margaret Green b: Abt. 1797, NY
.............3 Skate Green b: Abt. 1799, NY
.............3 William Green b: Abt. 1801, NY
.............3 Jane Green b: Abt. 1803, NY
.............3 Julie Green b: Abt. 1805, NY
.............3 Martha Green b: Abt. 1807, NY
.....2 Betsey Jemison b: 1776, Little Beards Town, NY
.........+John GreenBlanket b: Abt. 1772, NY
.............3 Gowaneyas b: Abt. 1798, NY
.............3 Solomon Green b: Abt. 1800, NY
.............3 John Green b: Abt. 1802, NY
.............3 Daw Tah b: Abt. 1804, NY
.............3 Joseph b: Abt. 1806, NY
.............3 Lucy (Sundown) b: Abt. 1808, NY
.............3 Astro b: Abt. 1810, NY
.................+(???) Thompson
.................... 4 Ruth Emely Thompson b: Abt. 1848
........................+Cyrs (Cyrus?) Sweet b: Abt. 1828, Delaware, NY
............................5 Ellen Sweet b: 19 Mar 1869, NY
................................+Allen Monroe Lockwood b: 07 May 1859, Cuba, NY
............................5 Almira J. Sweet b: Abt. 1871
.............3 Satie Green b: Abt. 1812
.............3 Mariah-Do b: Abt. 1814
.............3 Sarah Green b: Abt. 1816
.....2 Polly Jemison b: 1778, Little Beards Town, NY
.........+George Shongo b: Abt. 1774, NY
.............3 George (Shongo) b: Abt. 1800, NY
.............3 Seneca (Shongo) b: Abt. 1802, NY
.............3 Mary (Shongo) b: Abt. 1804, NY
.............3 James (Shongo) b: Abt. 1806, NY
.............3 Hickie (Shongo) b: Abt. 1808, NY
.............3 Jackson (Shongo) b: Abt. 1810, Gardeau Flats, NY
.............3 Cornesius? (Shongo) b: Abt. 1812, Gardeau Flats, NY
.....2 Jane Jemison b: 1782
.....2 Jesse Jemison b: 1784
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Killed in Indian Raid when his sister Mary was abducted.
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