A Blue family was living in the Miami River Valley in Ohio at an early date, living in 1798 amongst many other families who had Seneca, Shawnee, Delaware, or Wyandot connections.A few families in the area also had Cherokee or Creek connections.A Blue family, consisting of eight Cherokees, owned four farms in Georgia in 1835.One of the Blue family fought with the friendly Cherokees and Creeks against the Red Sticks in 1812.
A Shawnee named Blue was listed among the Lewistown, Ohio, band of mixed Senecas and Shawnees.A John Blue was given $3.50 a day for 24 days, collecting and transporting Senecas and their belongings to Dayton, Ohio, in 1831.See Watson, vol. 5, pt. 3, pp. 21-22.
A Uriah Blue married Charity Kiser in the Miami River Valley on Oct. 11, 1808.She was likely from the more famous Shawnee Kiser family, related to Captain Johnny and others of note.She was also apparently known as Charity Blue Sky.
A Barnabas Blue, Sr., appears in the records there, and the deeds sometimes refer to his wife, Charity, as Talithacuny.Was this her Shawnee or Wyandot name?Other family members appear in the records.Solomon Blue married Telitha Morris in 1806.The children on Barnabas Blue included Martha, Uriah, Solomon, Frederick, and Barnabas, Jr.The children of John Blue, Sr., who died in Hampshire County, Virginia, in 1791, included Michael and John, Jr.
A Uriah Blue died in Miami County, Ohio, in 1829, naming his wife, Ruth, and children, Michael, Uriah, James, John, and Barnabas; and daughters, Elizabeth Herrill, Sarah Lennon, Martha Langley, Ruth Goble, and Hannah Woodruff.He also mentioned the children of his deceased son, James (m. Mebetable Gerard), including Gerard, Blackford, Lloyd, and Abner Blue.He also mentioned the children of his deceased son, John (m. Rachel Sayers), including Fanny, Betsy, Hetty, Ruth, and William Sutton Blue.
Was there more Indian blood here?That would be my bet.Perhaps someone else here has more on this.
So, too, I would like to know the relationship of these Blues to the Major Uriah Blue who, in 1815, in the last stage of the Red Stick War, "scoured the swamps of the Escambia and all the bays of West Florida with a large force of mounted men."His force included the "friendly" Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and frontier scouts.Davy Crockett was one of the scouts and, after this dismal duty, Crockett wrote that such campaigns "had no fun in them at all," and he retired to Tennessee.But where did this Uriah Blue go and what happened to him?I know of no family that claims him and am fairly certain that he was the same man as the Ohio Uriah Blue.See Derr's HISTORY OF DAVY CROCKETT, pp. 73, 74, 78.
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