Koonay "Anne" Gibson

Cayuga/Turtle Clan

discoverkingsport.com/h-John-Roberts-Chief-Logan.pdf

"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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Shawnee Heritage By Don Greene, Noel Schutz Page 107

Gibson, John (I) aka Horsehead - adopted-white- (Kishpoko-Seneca) born 1740 PA-died 1822­ adopted 1763-returned to whites 1764, son of George GibsonJ04 & Elizabeth de Vinez. adopted son of Widow Shawnee, translator/scout/spy-with U.S. Army-Revolution, trader, Indian Agent, Gen, of PA Militia. delegate to PA Constitutional Convention, Commander Ft. Pitt 81-81, Acting Governor ofI ndiana Territory/1800-13, namesake of Gibson Co. IN, AlleghenyC<>, PA Judge.

husband 1st by 1770 OH of Kooney Shikellimus /50-Seneca-(sister of Chief Logan), 2nd 1775 PA of Mary Brent/60-1/2 Pekowi-Metis, 3rd about 1780 PA of Ann Mingo/65-Kishpoko. ..........................................................

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