Yes but he and John Watts did what they could to rally the tribes and unite them. I have no issue with the tribe even though they did kill my 5th great grandmother in one of their attacks, but as you mentioned mixing with the tribes was not uncommon as I have one ancestor I know for sure married a Cherokee woman.

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Posted by Prof

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Posted on 7/26/14 at 10:20 pm to TideWarrior

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Yes but he and John Watts did what they could to rally the tribes and unite them. I have no issue with the tribe even though they did kill my 5th great grandmother in one of their attacks, but as you mentioned mixing with the tribes was not uncommon as I have one ancestor I know for sure married a Cherokee woman.

Alls fair in love and war, I suppose. I had a great-aunt who was kidnapped by whites and forced to marry although I'm not really sure what tribe she was from. Sigh, so much history my family just doesn't know. On the other side, I've found records that indicate we were on the Miller Rolls and one sued for a US govt land-claim/rights claim. Even tho much is lost to me and my family, as I said before I'm mostly white with a sprinkling of black and Indian (although my Indian heritage may well be stronger than this - aunts and uncles looked like they stepped off a rez but with so little to go on I want more proof) so my theory is it's all good - I like being born so far (on good days anyway

). I know most about the black heritage because of the unique surname and census made it easy to see the migration to a town no one but those with that name live in. NC also bound out the white woman and her children and charged the her and her husband a tax for living together because he was black.

And for the Indian heritage, the US govt. doesn't consider the Miller Rolls enough to make one an 'official Indian,' even though it accounts for the Eastern Band of Cherokee BUT there's a lot of bad policies behind that on the governments part.