Nimeetha “Mitha” Parker, Piqua Shawnee

Biography

Nimeetha “Mitha” Parker "aka Elizabeth Parker" in deed was born in 1668 in Ohio, United States. Her parents were Chief of the Pekowi, Straight Tail Meaurroway Opessa and ‘Shawano Woman’, /Piqua Shawnee. She was a Possibly Tecumseh's Aunt; of the Bear Clan.

Nimeetha “Mitha” married Cheraw Thomas Parker of Dan River circa 1678 in Nansemond, Virginia. Together they had the following children: Rachele Parker, /Old Cheraw; Chief Richard Parker, of Cranny Creek.

She died circa 1754 in Parker Creek, 6, Accomack County, Virginia, United States.

SNP source of group of claimants: 2 of the claimants have 14 shared cM with Riana Carver Palacio and Linda Carr Buchholz, on the x on the maternal dna in 1/4 of the whole of their shared dna. Of the 9 chromosomes they share, the Pounds and Parker cousin matching unique position of shared cousin with the formerly mentioned were also at 2 other chromosome and in the distance which would work for this ancestor and one the very few brick walls on the paper trail is this grandmother. The ch 22 at 25 mil segments ==the Parker/ Straight Tail. Circle.

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Straight Tail Meaurroway Opessa (1630–1709), or simply known as Meaurroway, was Chief of the Pekowi, a subdivision of the Shawnee Native American tribe. He was also the Chief of the Turtle Clan, one of the most religious orders of the tribe.

Biography Straight Tail was born in 1630 in present-day Ohio, to the Chief of the Pekowi and an unnamed Pekowi Woman. Nothing is yet known of his childhood or teenage years, but what is known is that he succeeded his father at the age of 40 in 1670, as both Pekowi Chief and Chief of the Turtle Clan. Each division of the Shawnee had control over different aspects of the whole tribe's lifestyle, and the Pekowi managed the Shawnee's state of order, duty and celebration of religion. As Chief, Straight Tail was in charge of these important aspects of tribal life. Meaurroway was a strong leader, leading his people on massive migrations:

1677: Leads his people to present-day Illinois and Miami[disambiguation needed] to join up with other bands of Shawnee and various tribes.

1680–1693: Leads his tribe to the area around present-day Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina, frequently moving throughout that area over the course of 13 years.

1697: Straight Tail settles down with his tribe in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Straight Tail eventually gave up his rank of Chief of the Pekowi and the Turtle Clan to his son, Opessa, in 1697. Opessa would later sign a peace treaty with William Penn in 1701, and have good relations with Pennsylvania governor John Evans. Straight Tail's grandson Peter Chartier became chief of the Pekowi in 1737.

Straight Tail Meaurroway Opessa died in Pennsylvania in either 1709.

Children Straight Tail married a Pekowi woman in 1650, having the following children:

Wolf Straight Tail: born about 1654.

Sewatha Straight Tail: born about 1660 in Ohio, USA. Married to Martin Chartier about 1693. Mother of Peter Chartier. Died in 1759 in Illinois.

Cakundawanna Straight Tail: born about 1662.

Opessa Straight Tail: born about 1664. Great-grandfather of Tecumseh, famed Shawnee leader during the War of 1812.

Snow White Straight Tail: born about 1666 in Ohio, USA.

Minitha Straight Tail: born about 1668 in Ohio, USA

John White Straight Tail: born about 1670 in Ohio, USA.

Daughter Straight Tail: born about 1680 in Illinois, USA. Legacy and intermarriages Unlike other Native American Chiefs before him, Straight Tail did not discourage interracial marriage. He encouraged a good relationship with the Europeans. His daughter, Sewatha, married a prominent French trader, Martin Chartier, who explored the Great Lakes region of America with Rene-Robert de la Salle. Other children and their descendants also married whites. His grandson was Peter Chartier, who was active in opposition to the British in the French and Indian War.

Because of these marriages, many of his modern-day descendants include people that have Caucasian features.

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Pekowi was the name of one of the five divisions (or bands) of the Shawnee, a Native American people, during the 18th century. The other four divisions were the Chalahgawtha, Mekoche, Kispoko, and Hathawekela. Together these divisions formed the loose confederacy that was the Shawnee tribe.

All five Shawnee division names have been spelled in a great variety of ways. Variations of the name "Pekowi" are reflected in many place names in the United States, including Piqua, Pickawillany, Pickaway, and Pequea.

Traditionally, Shawnee ritual leaders came from the Pekowi patrilineal division.[1]

From 1737 to about 1750 the Pekowi were led by Peter Chartier, a fur trader of French and Pekowi parentage. Chartier was the grandson of Straight Tail Meaurroway Opessa.[2][self-published source?] In 1710 he married his cousin, Blanceneige-Wapakonee Opessa. Chartier opposed the sale of rum in Shawnee communities in Pennsylvania, and this brought him into conflict with the colonial governor, Patrick Gordon.[3] In 1745 Chartier led some 400 members of the Pekowi to Lower Shawneetown and then to Kentucky where they founded the community of Eskippakithiki. Members of the Pekowi led by Chartier fought on the side of the French at the Battle of Fort Necessity in 1754.[4]

The Shawnee village of Peckuwe, which was located at 39°54.5′N 83°54.68′W near Springfield, Ohio was home to the Peckuwe and Kispoko Divisions of the Shawnee Tribe until Battle of Piqua, August 8, 1780. The Piqua Sept of Ohio Shawnee Tribe have placed a traditional cedar pole in commemoration, located "on the southern edge of the George Rogers Clark Historical Park, in the lowlands in front of the park's 'Hertzler House.'"[5]

References

1. John E. Kleber (18 May 1992). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 815. ISBN 978-0-8131-2883-2. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
2. Don Greene, Shawnee Heritage II: Selected Lineages of Notable Shawnee (Lulu.com: Fantasy ePublications, 2008), Lulu.com: Fantasy ePublications, 2008; pp. 44-45 and 70.
3. Stephen Warren, Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America, UNC Press Books, 2014 ISBN 1469611732
4. Charles Augustus Hanna, The Wilderness Trail: Or, The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the Allegheny Path, Volume 1 The Wilderness Trail: Or, The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the Allegheny Path, Putnam's sons, 1911
5. "Peckuwe Shawnee Memorial Marker". HNdb.org, The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 2013-02-17.