Straight Tail//Piqua {Waterbird}} Shawnee

Biography

‘Shawano Woman’, /Piqua Shawnee was born in Shawnese was the name of the, Old Fields Village, Old Town, MD, National Historic Landmark.

‘Shawano Woman’ married Chief of the Pekowi, Straight Tail Meaurroway Opessa. Together they had the following children: Nemeetha "Mitha" (Straight Tail) Parker/Bear Clan; John White Straight Tail, of the Pekowi Bear Clan; Daughter Shawano Straight Tail, of the Bear Clan.

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Reason for this communal connection: Shawnee located on the John Smith Locator Trail Map - on the 1607 Map Made By John Smith desginating a census of a Pan NA Regional Map of a Small Pox encampment as found in the Susquahannah Valley. (Langston-Morretti Archealogical Work for NPS - Wicocomico State Park).

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atDna SNP Circle 3 25/M to Linda Carr Buchholz, Riana Carver Palacio, Bellinda Myrick-Barnett, Charles Dean Grant, D. Angela Carnes, et al. circle.

Avatar: X matches for claimants of Bear Clan Circle. See Bear Clan Geometric Symbol in the media section.

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http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVWOOD/2010-09/1285524233

This tree comes from the books: Green, Don with Schultz, Noel. Shawnee Heritage I. Second Edition. Published by Lulu.com. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4357-1573-8.

Green, Don. Shawnee Heritage II. First Edition, Published by Lulu.com. 2008. ISBN: 978-0-557-03605-9.

Straight Tail aka Meaurroway - Pekowi. He was born about 1630 in Ohio and died 1709 in PA. He was the husband in 1650 of a Pekowi Woman who had been born about 1635.

Children:

1. Wolf Straight Tail , born about 1654 and died after 1685

2. Children Straight Tail

3. Sewatha Straight Tail aka Seaworth, born 1660 Ohio and died after 1700 PA. Wife in 1686 or1687 in Illinois of Martin Chartier adopted French. Wife in 1676 of Martin Chartier adopted French. Martin Chartier was born 1655 in France and died 1718 in Pennsylvania. He arrived in America in 1677 with his father, Rene, a brother, Peter, and a sister. He deserted in Ohio while on expedition to Illinois Territory.

4. Cakundawanna aka Sevana Straight Tail born about 1662 Ohio and died after 1722 PA.

5. Opessa Straight Tail- Conflicting information for birth dates between Book I and II: Book I - Born 1675 and died shortly after 1760 Book II - Born about 1664 and died the later part of 1760

6. Snow White Straight Tail born 1665 or 1666 and died after 1685.

7. John White Straight Tail born 1670 Ohio and died after 1750 PA

8. Children Straight Tail born 1672-1678

9. Daughter Straight Tail born 1680 IL and died after 1720. She was the wife of Tamenebuck-Corn Blade Cornstalk.

According to Don Greene, Pekowi Woman died in 1666. Children after that belonged to Chief Meaurroway Straight Tail and his second "union"... daughter of Chief Hokolesqua Cornstalk.

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