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Who was the wife of Littleberry Roach?

Started by Erica Howton on Saturday, March 11, 2023
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(Beriah) Littleberry Roach, Sr. shows as married to Esther Roach & Unk Cherokee

Shawn Danelle asks at https://www.geni.com/discussions/262933?msg=1621762

I'm a descendant of the Roach family. My Great Great Grandmother was Charity Roach and her brother was Littleberry Roach. They lived in the lower Cherokee Village of Tugaloo. I believe her line goes back to the See family of Virgina and Beriah Littleberry Roach. We also thought they were Cherokee but now I believe that they were Shawnee. Do you think that it is possible the Roach family are actually Cornstalks not Cherokee?

I don't think there are any records that name "Littleberry Roach" in the 17th century. The first documented man by that name seems to have been born about 1758, had a wife named Mary Cobb and a daughter named Elizabeth. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who served from North Carolina. There is a Littleberry Roach on the 1790 census in South Carolina who may or may not be the same man. The Cherokee were forced out of South Carolina before the Revolutionary War and the town of Tugaloo was abandoned. Another Littleberry Roach was married in Rutherford, North Carolina to Susannah May in 1823. There is a different Littleberry Roach born in Kentucky about 1799 who married Polly Burks in Kentucky in 1827; they are probably the couple on the 1850 census there. I don't find any records for anyone by this name prior to the Revolutionary War soldier. No one lived with or near the Cherokee or Shawnee. There are no "Cornstalks.'' The Shawnee chief by that name had no known wife or children although he is attached to more than one white family on the Internet.

The FamilySearch tree listing these people has no sourcing and makes no sense - it says Littleberry Roach dates 1675-1725 was the husband of a woman who wasn't born until 1740!

The colonial records of New Kent County VA were mostly destroyed; the is no one named "Roach" in any of the surviving records.

Charity Roach Lee, the daughter of John (possibly James) Roach, was born in 1851, died in 1926, lived in Tugaloo, S.C. when she died.

So Shawn Danelle it looks like the internet is presenting you with a mixed up tree. I’m sorry for that.

I’ll remove the “unknown Cherokee” profile, since that’s been looked into. But it’s beyond me to sort the Roach tree.

My suggestion is to start from yourself and build a tree from records. Once you start to reach this area, and you have some real data in your profiles, we can look again.

Here’s Charity Lee

I have found a will for my line which shows he was married to Margaret Peggy See as well as Ashcraft. This is definitely my line!

LITTLEBERRY4 ROACH (WILLIAM HENRY3, LITTLEBERRY2, HENRY1) was born 1753 in VA, and died Bet. 1833 - 1835 in (Anderson) SC. He married (1) JANE UNKNOWN Abt. 1775. He married (2) MARGARET SEE 22 Mar 1823 in (Rutherford) NC.

I believe Beriah Littleberry Roach Sr and Jr were married to native woman. Also I have statements that Margaret Peggy See was adopted by the See family and may possibly have been a native child born during the time her mother was held captive by the Shawnee. The family is very tied to the Cornstalk line.

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~grizzard/genealogy/watkins158.htm

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