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Subject: Re: Rager/Shikellamy
Date: 17 Mar 2006 15:50:05 -0700

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Hooray. Someone who knows something!!! I always thought there had to be two daughters. We have family history that we are descended from Shikellamy as well. Nicholas Gibson is my ggggf. Per our gggma, he related a story of his Indian captivity--when he was 14, which would have been approx 1776. When he returned 5 years later his father & mother were alive. (Of course he could have embellished). Also interestingly this story tells of two orphan cousins who lived with the family. (Children of the yellow creek massacre????)
Also from her thru a ggaunt, "Our people were French & Indian. Nicholas Gibson's mother was a sister of Chief Logan - a Cayuga Indian - of the Iroquois tribe. They were converts of the Merovians, an early missionary group from Germany. Nicholas was a son of John, an officer in the Revolution under George Washington, who was the son of a Scotch father and Spanish mother named DeAuza (note discrepancy in spelling DeAnza). They first settled in Penn. near West Chester, Lancaster & Carlisle, his picture hangs in the Wm. Henry Harrison House in Vincennes, Ind where he served as Assistant to Wm Henry Harrison while he was Gov. of Indiana. He learned many Indian dialects while a captive of the Indians, and did much to help with the peace treaties with the Illinois and Indiana Indians."
I would love to share any info (including that story) with you, & would love to know the sources you mention; especially interested in documenting the marriage if at all possible. Feel free to email me

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