Father of Nicketti

Nicketti, wife of Trader Hughes, was claimed by some descendants to have been a daughter (grand daughter ... grand niece ...) of Opechancanough "Mangopeesomon", paramount chief of the Powhatan The chronology makes this unlikely, as he died in 1644 at near 100 years of age.

The area of Virginia Nicketti lived in, present day Amherst County, was the territory of Monacan people. At that time the Catawba also lived in the area and they are the tribe mentioned in earliest versions of the story as trading with Nicketti's husband.

• Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-180 by Seaman, Catherine H.C. Publication date 1992 page 158 https://archive.org/details/tuckahoescoheess00seam
• search on Hughes in Amherst County Virginia Heritage by S. E. Grose
• In a newspaper article headlined "Amherst County Indians" and published in the Richmond Times on April 19, 1896, Edgar Whitehead describes the history of Virginia Indians in Amherst County. link
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monacan_people
• an alternate ancestry of Nicketti proposed here: Vest, Jay Hansford C. "Mormons and Indians in Central Virginia: J. Golden Kimball and the Mason Family's Native American Origins." Journal of Mormon History 40, no. 3 (2014): 127-54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24243806 link to page 134
• https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stevensp&id=I00714 cites “Biographical Genealogies of the Kentucky-Virginia Floyd Families,” N. J. Floyd, 1912 and names him “Chief Of The Cayugas”