Sachem Shewaunee Cornstalk, Wind Clan

Evidence needed to support as son of Wahunseneca, Paramount chief of the Powhatan

Recorded as the one contingient of Shawnee in the Susquahannah by the mapping made by Capt John Smith in 1607; as recorded by the NPS Study of Archeologist team reporter, Mrs. Lanston-Morretti.

Sacham Sheewanee Cornstalk-Powhatan/ Wind Clan (1577-1635), son of Paramound Chief Wahunseneca Powhatan(1545-1618) & Nonoma Cornstalk (1562-aft 1618). Married, in 1597, to the daughter of the Chalakatha Tree Clan Chief.

In 1620 he inherited the chieftainship on the death of his mother's father, Great Cornstalk.

From Wikipedia

According to one European legend, some Shawnee were descended from a party sent by Chief Opechancanough, ruler of the Powhatan Confederacy 1618–1644, to settle in the Shenandoah Valley. The party was led by his son, Sheewa-a-nee.[12] Edward Bland, an explorer who accompanied Abraham Wood's expedition in 1650, wrote that in Opechancanough's day, there had been a falling-out between the Chawan chief and the weroance of the Powhatan (also a relative of Opechancanough's family). He said the latter had murdered the former.[13]

• 12. Carrie Hunter Willis and Etta Belle Walker, Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia, 1937, pp. 15–16; this account also appears in T.K. Cartmell's 1909 Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants p. 41.
• 13. Edward Bland, The Discoverie of New Brittaine

Links

• Powhatan-Vann-Jernigan connection
• http://mornstarz.blogspot.com/
• Shawnee Heritage IV  By Don Greene.  Page 168