William 'Chief Bear Hart' Jackson - Is this Source accurate

Don Greene’s books are complete fiction. Nothing about this account is real. William Jackson had no connection to any Cherokee person. Bertie County is several hundred miles from the Cherokee Nation on the east coast of North Carolina. The first white marriages to Cherokee women did not take place until about 1730 and those families remained in the Cherokee Nation.

Thank you.
do you know any good sources on this family?

Private User - it’s alwsys best to work from bottom of tree upward.

Which child that Chief William "Bear Heart” Jackson supposedly had with Dorcas Greene are you interested in?

Dorcas and William Jackson are mentioned in her father Henry Green’s will, I added that text to her profile.

If this William Jackson was the son of Thomas Jackson & Hester Hammond, then he was mentioned in his father’s Will:

Jackson, Thomas. Bertie County.
March 15, 1746. May Court, 1753. .Sons: Thomas ("plantation known as Mount Garriot, together with my ferry"), William (plantation bought of Richard Martin), John (plantation in Northampton County), James (plantation in Bertie County). Wife's daughter: Elizabeth Hammond Griffin. Wife: Hester. Executors: John Brown, son of Dr. Jas. Brown, dec'd, Benjamin Wynns and Hester Jackson. Brother: JereMiah Jackson of Boston. Codicil dated April 9, 1749. changes division of land among sons, and appoints as Executors: Benjamin Wynns, William Wynns and Hester Jackson. No witnesses or signature to codicil. Witnesses to will: Wm. Power, James Griffin, Betty Griffin, Cathern Conner. Clerk of the Court: Benjamin Wynns.[2]

I was going up through the Sizemore family to his daughter Winnie and then saw him. I am trying to find out who is actually his father and if they are native Indian decent.

Not sure what's going on with William's daughter Winifred's husbands, looks like maybe a merge issue.

I'm very interested in this family, if Selah 'Celia' Jackson is his daughter. I have Celia's husband Arthur Taylor in my direct Y-DNA line Taylor Group R1b-004. I'm not sure where my connection is, but I suspect from genetic distance using the Y-DNA Comparison Utility, it's from somewhere south of Arthur and Celia. There is no native American atDNA in my line of any lower 48 states indian tribes.

“Some stories say William Jackson was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, Chief Bear Heart, who took a white name and married a white woman. This is an unfortunate translation between Indian and English culture, where to Indians, saying "I'm Indian" means "I am accepted by and live with Indians" whereas to the English, "I'm Indian" meant "all my ancestors are Indian." His genealogy should make it clear that he was at the very most 1/4, and that's assuming that his grandmother Ann Jackson was full. That assumption is quite a stretch.”

There in nothing in any historical record to suggest the William Jackson of Bertie County had any Native American connection.

I merged the Ephraim Sizemore duplicates.

I don’t see evidence supporting Winifred "Winnie" Sizemore as a daughter of Chief William "Bear Heart” Jackson and have disconnected.

Her name is seen as “perhaps Ford.”

This looks like the “real” Chief Bear Hart possibly.

No Cherokee records that far back, no Chief Bear Heart in any record, the Cherokee did mot move into Alabama until the 1770’s. He is fiction.

Erica Howton

I have seen things that say Chief Bear Heart was Catawba or Tuscarora not Cherokee. That would explain why there are no Cherokee records on him.

Erica Howton

From what I've seen Ephriam Sizemore was married to Winifred Green.

William Jackson aka Chief Bear Heart was married to Dorcas Green - sister of Winifred.

William's parents - Thomas Jackson & Hester Hammond -- I have seen that Thomas was perhaps Catawba and Hester perhaps Tuscarora. Thomas' mother was Ann Dawson and Hester's mother was Christina Anderson. Both the Dawson and Anderson families have connections to Natives.

I have no documentation for this, it is just what I have came across over the years.

Notice the huge discrepancy in dates between the Chief Bear Hart’s, obviously they are different people. Also there seems to be a father for William Jackson who left him property.

As always - work from bottom up ....

Dorcas sister Winifred Sizemore is married to a different Ephraim "Mulatto" Sizemore, Jr. of a different generation.

@Linda Carr,Cheraw Nation At Large Council
My analysis is the same as yours. I have to admit, that I am blindly researching Native American roots because I was adopted and had no idea that my paternal grandparents were both from Native American lines. So, I have no stories or family knowledge to go by. I'm shooting in the dark. Lol.

I searching to determine if William Jackson had a daughter with Dorcas by the name of Margaret, married a Mathew Deaton. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Best regards.

SmartCopyConsistency Check:Hannah Jackson born after the death of her mother Hester Hammond.Chief William "Bear Heart" Jackson is under 12 years old for the birth of his child Elizabeth Rachel Sizemore.Elizabeth Rachel Sizemore born before the birth of her mother Winifred Dorcas Jackson.Susannah Jackson born after the death of her mother Winifred Dorcas Jackson.

Getting there. 2 items remain. Hannah Jackson born after the death of her mother Ester Jackson.Susannah Jackson born after the death of her mother Dorcas Jackson.

Be careful when we say that Cherokee boundaries were this and that and no intermarriages took place before 1730's. The Native tribes were being pushed to the frontiers long before 1730's due to disease and losses from battles and skirmishes. Not only skirmishes with settlers but skirmishes with enemy tribes long before settlers. Settlers only made it worse. I have a distinct Goins Cherokee/Croatan line of triple Cherokee and was blessed to grow up with my elders who were blessed to live a long time. I learned (1) We lived close to a large Indian Orphanage in 1760's Granville County, NC which was necessary because of illness, early deaths of parents or husbands moving on leaving wives unable to provide. (2) Native American men could have as many wives as they wished and Native American women could "divorce" a man by putting his clothes outside of the teepee and welcome a new husband who was better for her children. Children always remained with the mother. (3) Native Women were encouraged to have children with other men and bring fresh blood into the tribe which was a natural form of adoption which makes DNA go crazy in some families. (4) After Indian skirmishes my great Grandmother Goins found three Tuscarora children orphaned and living alone in a cave on Deep River. She scooped them up and they became Goinses. Which one of my great uncles and aunts is really Goinses and which is Tuscarora, I do not know because I do not have enough samples of DNA to sort it out, but they are all Goins and they are all Native as of 1857. (5) Intermarriage into other tribes happened quite a bit and Native Americans moved around more than we can ever realize. One Croatan from Pocket Creek, was actually born in 1898 in South Dakota. This is a family group whom anthropologists wrote "never roamed." But they did go to South Dakota, Montana to Lakota reservations and came back. I know because my uncles and aunts (one who lived to be 107) told me so. So, we need to open our minds to a very different culture when we say they couldn't be in Bertie County. Bertie County was prime Tuscarora Country. The tribe might have moved officially at some point, but not EVERY Tuscarora Native left their original lands. Just like not EVERY Cherokee Native left their original fishing districts in Granville County, NC. My father was born 30 miles from the original 1764 land grant. That is over 250 years of Cherokee living on Cherokee original colonially mapped lands and probably thousands of years before. And my father never celebrated a birthday before he got married in 1960. He wasn't even sure how old he was until the US Marine Corp told him based on his birth certificate. So most of our Native Ancestors did not know how old they really were unless they had a family bible and could write.