Chief Shikellamy Swatana of the Oneida tribe - Bear Clan (Shikellamy) - Children

Started by Debbie Gambrell on Friday, February 4, 2022
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2/4/2022 at 1:00 PM

This info in his About section only mentions children James Logan and John Petty:

Family
After his death, Shikellamy was succeeded by his son John Shikellamy, also known as John Logan and Tachnachdoarus (spreading oak). Another one of Shikellamy's sons, James Logan, was named for James Logan, the Quaker Provincial Secretary of Pennsylvania and de facto Superintendent of Indian Affairs. One of these two sons — historians have disagreed which one — later became well known in American history as "Chief Logan," who played a pivotal role in Dunmore's War in 1774 and issued an oft-quoted speech known as "Logan's Lament." A third son was named John Petty, after a trader. Two of his sons were killed in battle.[4]

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Is there any documentation proving that the other children connected to him here on Geni are, in fact, his children?

Thanks for any clarification.

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2/4/2022 at 1:47 PM

Debbie Gambrell
Sayughtowa is another name that James Logan was known as, though there are various spellings.
Martha Toms Hatfield does not have any connection from what I have read, but is being researched on wikitree because of her disputed origins: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Toms-274
I'm still looking into the others. I have asked the manager of the <private> Shikellamy to make it public. I will merge Sayughtowa with Chief James Logan and continue researching. Thank you for bringing these inconsistencies forward.

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2/4/2022 at 2:21 PM

"The Yellow Creek Massacre was a brutal killing of several Mingo Indians by Virginia frontiersmen on April 30, 1774. The atrocity occurred at Yellow Creek on the upper Ohio River in the Ohio Country — now Yellow Creek Township, Columbiana County, Ohio — and was the single most important incident contributing to the outbreak of Lord Dunmore’s War (May-October 1774). It was carried out by a group led by Jacob and Daniel Greathouse. The perpetrators were never brought to justice.

This incident was all the worse because Mingo leader Logan was a good friend of the English-speaking settlers in the region. Logan was away on a hunt but his wife Mellana, his brother Taylaynee (called John Petty by many English speakers), Taylaynee’s son Molnah and his Logan’s and Taylaynee’s sister Koonay were among the slain. Koonay was also the wife of John Gibson a prominent trader between the English and various Native American groups who at the time of the massacre was on a trading expedition to the Shawnee."
https://nativeheritageproject.com/2014/01/26/logans-lament/

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2/4/2022 at 2:32 PM

I've cleaned up the children; only Martha Toms and the <private> Shikellamy profiles are still in question.

2/4/2022 at 7:48 PM

Thanks for your work on the connections, Kandy.

2/5/2022 at 10:38 AM

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZJC-K9K/chief-shikellamy-or-...

Good afternoon, here is a link my Aunt sent me to see if it would help at all. We are still doing a lot of research but I wanted to give you what we had.
Thank you
Marty Pillsbury

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