Walter Scott, Cheraw, Student Ft Christanna

yDNA Q3 / Old Cheraw i.e. Nottoway Cheraw

Avatar: Letter from Charles Griffin, Vestryman and School Master to Bishop in London.

Probably met future wife at Ft Christanna Indian School which would have been where the application of the Halyburton name derived under the then Amelia County Nottoway Parish lead Vestry Man Minister, Charles Griffin, who reported to the Bishop in London as rector of the school at the fort build for protection in the 1711 Tuscororan War where they were declaring attacks on the Saponi for helping the British. The school was in the fort from 1711 to 1718 when it disbanded. Spotswoods' superiors had 3 Chief Men of the Nottoway ( collective term for Cheroenhaka Nottoway Skipper and Old Cheraw Williams) arrested on a visit to Williamsburg, then put in the stocks for 3 days until they relented to send 10 of their youth to Ft Christianna. The chief men were in Old Cheraw were in Williamsburg to protest trade with the Cherokee who had been sending emissaries to Williamsburg,