I've been finding more and more evidence of Saponi and some Catawba connections in my family as I continue my research. I honestly feel there is much more of this input than people realize, especially when you look at when and where the Saponi migrated to and from. You never hear these tribes mentioned in Kentucky. Its always Cherokee ancestry, no matter who you talk to. Yes, I believe some families may have married remnants of the Cherokee and Shawnee, but they originated as Saponi many year...
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September 5th 1671 On the fourth day 'they reached the Saponi villages, one of which Leader had visited the year before. They picked up a Saponi guide to show them to the Totero village by "a nearer way than usual," They sent back Mr. Thomas Wood's worn out horse by a **Portuguese servant of General Wood's whom they had found in the village" A Journey from Virginia to beyond the Appalachian Mountains, September, 1671.

From Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800

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Darby Begley

Birth 1770 in Tennessee, USA      Death  ?

 

Ephraim "Mullato" Sizemore

Birth Abt. 1727 in South Carolina   Death 05 Apr 1836

1) In 1753 Orange Co, NC Court Minutes, Mary Torrington petitions the Court concerning an orphan female child, called Sarah Torrington, taken from her in a forcible manner by a certain EPHRAIM SIZEMORE, a MULATTO.

William Sizemore

Birth 1671 in Henrico County, Virginia       Death  ?

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