Ounaconoa Muskrat, {Shawnee Heritage}

Seen as wife of Hokolesqua, Sachem Cornstalk

(2) Ounaconoa Muskrat AKA Moytoy (1716 aft 1757).

She was 1/2 Shawnee-Cherokee, the daughter of Swan-Wahehti Hop (Shawnee) & Oshaqua MUSKRAT (Cherokee). They had both been adopted by "Trader" Tom Carpenter, the 2nd Moytoy of the Cherokee, & his wife Nancy, a Shawnee woman.

married by 1735 to Cornstalk (1710-1777) as his 2nd wife

Daughter of Swan-Wapeti Hop & Oshasqua.

---children--

• Black Beard,
• Black Wolf,
• John Wolf,
• Peter Cornstalk

-all 3/4 th Shawnee-Cherokee,

notes

From http://explorestone.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html

Chief Peter’s second wife was Ounaconoa Moytoy (1718-1758), mother of Black Beard born 1735, Black Wolf/41 John Wolf/50, Peter Jr (II)/55 and Susannah/57.

Of greater importance is the relationship created between the Moytoy’s and the Cornstalks with the marriage of Young “Chief Peter” Cornstalk to his second wife, Ounaconoa Muskrat Moytoy. Ounaconoa’s brothers and uncles were of the Principal Chiefs, members of the 1730 Delegation to King George II. Their portraits hang in the British Royal Museum in London. 

Ounaconoa‘s brother Fivekiller, a member of the delegation, married Tame Doe. Their daughters, Nancy Moytoy, Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, married Bryant Ward, and Elizabeth Kittegusta Moytoy married Chief John Walker.  Caty Walker, grand daughter of Chief John and Elizabeth and niece of Ounaconoa and Chief Peter/1710, married David Fulks, the first of the Fulks to arrive in Arkansas along with Peter Cornstalk Jr (III Adams), John Wolf Cornstalk/92(Avey), Peter/94 and the Wards around 1820. Elias Fulks, son of David and Caty, married Martha Houston Grigsby, a cousin to brothers, General Sam Houston and John Paxton Houston, first clerk of Izard Co, buried at Athens, 3 miles south of Calico Rock. 

Although many Cherokee came through Arkansas on the Trail of Tears (1831-1838) these Shawnee and Cherokee came here voluntarily, were not assigned roll numbers and contrary to belief most did not leave when the 1817-1828 reservation ended. The Native Americans who moved here voluntarily were among the first to circumvent the U.S. patent laws by adopting the white man’s names and thus patenting land as such. It is the fear of the loss of their land that for years forced silence and denial of their ancestry upon the people who moved here.

• Shawnee Heritage II  By Don Greene. Page 255
• http://mornstarz.blogspot.com/2008/04/2-1-1.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornstalk