Peter Troxel

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Troxel-108

Peter Troxel is believed to have been born about 1781 in Loudoun County, Virginia to Jacob Troxell.

Some have associated him with the story of "Little Jake" or Jacob Troxell, Jr., who married a Cherokee Indian Saleechie Doublehead and died in 1810 but there is no evidence that Jacob Troxel Sr. had a son also named Jacob. Doublehead did have a daughter named Saleechie, but she is well documented as the wife of Chickasaw chief George Colbert. [1]

Peter Troxell married Fanny [Jane] Stevenson shortly after 7 December 1803 in Wayne County, Kentucky.[2]. He may be the Peter Troxell in Wayne County, Kentucky in the 1810 census.[3]

Peter died in Wayne County, Kentucky between Feb of 1819 when he was named a road overseer [4] and Jan of 1820 when Jane Troxel and John Stephenson [her father or brother] were named administrators of his estate.[5]

Origins

Jacob Troxel and Pawalin's children are mentioned in the book “Jonathan Blevins Sr. of Virginia and His Descendants” by Laccie W. and Ray E. Blevins who listed what little information they had on the Troxel’s children which this author has added to.

1. Peter “Little Jake” b. 1781 m. Saleechie “Standing Fern” abt. 1801 d, 1810
2. Catherine “Katy” b. 1783 m.Jonathan Blevins Jr. April 7, 1803 d. 1813
3. Sarah “Sary” b. 1785–1787 m. (1) William Blevins #8 (2) Thomas Bell ca. 1830
4. Mary “Polly” b. 1788 m.Talton Blevins on Nov. 21, 1807
5. Margaret “Peggy” b. 1789 m. James Bell ca. July 5th 1809
6. Elizabeth “Lizzy” b. 1792 m.James Vaughn d. after 1850
7. William “Willy” b. 1795-1800 m. unknown

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Evidence needed to support this story. Jacob Troxel (d 1843) is not known to have had a son called Jake.

LITTLE JAKE TROXEL

With the death of Chief Doublehead in 1807 and the murder of his son Tuckahoe soon after that, the leadership of the tribe fell to Princess Comblossom. Her son, Little Jake, born less than a year after her marriage to Big Jake, was now a young brave by tribal standards and helped his mother in the handling of the affairs of the tribe, whose numbers had dwindled to less than a hundred members. New settlements by the whites had crowded them from their previous homes and hunting grounds until they were living in an area known as Dry Valley and today is known as Big Sinking in Wayne County, Kentucky. Young Jake had now become a hard-riding, fast shooting, one-man army executing the orders of his mother, now the ruler of the tribe. He is credited for stopping the raids by a group of yonega rogues who preyed on the Chickamaguan women carrying corn from the Sequatchie Valley back to their homes along the Cumberland River. Young Jake is said to have hunted them all down killing them with his long rifle. For he next few years Little Jake Troxel after the Yahoo Falls massacre, the terrorized the settlers along the Cumberland River. He finally surrendered to the sheriff of Wayne County at Monticello, Kentucky in return for a promise of amnesty. Surrendering his scalping knife with nine notches filed on the handle, he settled down on his 180-acre homestead on the Little South Fork River that today is a rice farm. Little Jake died in 1880, and is buried in the old part of the graveyard at Parmleysville, Kentucky.

References

• Created from MyHeritage Match via sister Catherine 'katie' Blevins (born Troxell) by SmartCopy: Sep 1 2014, 22:09:10 UTC
• “The Troxells” by Katherine Troxell Petrie. Page 1. FamilySearch calls his wife Nancy Jane Douglas.
• http://www.thepeopleofthehuntingground.com/princess_cornblossom.html
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Troxel-108 cites
• ↑ Martini, Don. The Chickasaw Colberts: Corrections to Colbert Family Genealogy. 2015
• ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-893Y-BGQD?cc=1804888&w... : 17 May 2018), 005773126 > image 35 of 707; Madison County Courthouse, Richmond.
• ↑ "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH29-N4S : accessed 18 November 2017), Peter Troxel, Wayne, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 365, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 8; FHL microfilm 181,353.
• ↑ Wayne County Court Orders Book 'A' 1801-1822, Feb. 1819
• ↑ Wayne County Court Orders, Jan, 1820 “Estate of Peter Troxall dec’d” administrators Jane Troxall and John Stephenson; Hiram Gregory posted security for administrator’s bond, estate settled Jan, 1822
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3SKF-8Q5
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH29-N4S
• The existence of Cornblossom, her relationship to known Cherokee Chief Doublehead and to Revolutionary War soldier Jacob Troxel was first introduced to the world in 1958 (two centuries after the fact) in the book Legion of the Lost Mine by Thomas H. Troxel. This out-of-print, 45-page book is digitized at the end of https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/184281-redi...
• WikiTree Volunteers, Cornblossom, Doublehead & Jacob Troxel: An examination of the claims, their sources and implications for WikiTree profiles Last updated: 14 June 2021 GoogleDocs
• ” Is Pawalin Cornblossom Doublehead Troxel a myth?” Wikitree discussion (2017)