Genealogy De Bruijn in 4D
Genealogy De Bruijn in 4D
This genealogy has been established by Marco J. de Bruijn in Pijnacker, The Netherlands.
This genealogy has been established by Marco J. de Bruijn in Pijnacker, The Netherlands.
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Finding-locations and Pieces of Evidence (Sources)
Web_KeziahArroyah |
Brief Life History of Keziah Arroyah on FamilySearch.org (Website) Domein: www.FamilySearch.org |
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Keziah was the daughter of Chief Wahanganoche and his wife, the daughter of Ka-Okee and Thomas Pettus. She was a granddaughter of Ka-Okee and great-granddaughter of Pocahontas. Keziah is believed to be one of Wahanganoche's older children, born likely about 1640 at the family home in Stafford County, Virginia. Keziah married an Englishman named Richard Bryant. Keziah's father Chief Wahanganoche was falsely accused of murder n 1662 by Captain Giles Brent, the neighbor of Keziah and her husband. Wahanganoche had given Brent permission to live on Patawomeck lands. Brent was of mixed heritage, his father was English but his mother was a Piscataway Indian, traditional enemies of the Patawomeck. Not satisfied with the land he had been granted, Brent accused Chief Wahanganoche of murder in the hopes of taking his land. A special committee of the House of Burgesses determined that the King of the Patawomeck was innocent of all charges. Unfortunately, Wahanganoche was murdered returning home from the trial. It is unclear if his family ever knew what happened to him. In 1665 the Patawomeck were required to sell all their tribal lands to the English to build a fort. The Bryant property was not effected because is was no longer Indian owned but belonged to the Bryant family. In 1666, the governor's Council declared war on the Patawomeck, calling for "their utter destruction if possible and that their women and children and their goods … shall be taken to be disposed of." As the wife of an Englishman, Keziah Bryant, and her children, escaped the persecution that destroyed most of the rest of the Patawomeck Tribe. The known children of Keziah and her husband are: - Dr. Richard Bryant, born 1651, married his first cousin, Anne Meese - Silent Bryant, married Lucy Doniphan - Thomas Bryant, married Eleanor, his Indian housekeeper - Martha Bryant, married Thomas Foley It is unknown exactly how many children Keziah had. According to Patawomeck Tribal Historians: "Chief Wahanganoche’s daughters were traditionally Keziah Arroyah (the wife of a Mr. Bryant), a daughter whose Christian name appears to have been Mary (wife of Col. Henry Meese), a daughter called Grace by some (wife of Col. Peter Ashton), and a daughter, name unknown (wife of John Grigsby). The descendants of these daughters intermarried with each other and also intermarried with the descendants of orphans of the 1666 massacre, two of whom are said to have been Elizabeth Ontonah Curtis and William Redman. This continuous intermarriage among cousins of Indian blood helped to keep the Indian blood and Indian features strong to the present day. The daughter of Wahanganoche called Keziah Arroyah appears to have been one of the older children. She married a Mr. Bryant, who is believed to have been the Richard Bryant who was transported to Virginia during the period of about 1644 to 1650 by Christopher Boore, who patented land next to that of Capt. Giles Brent in 1654 in what later became Stafford County. It is not known how many children Keziah had, but it seems clear from their associations that four of them were Dr. Richard Bryant (born 1651, who married his first cousin, Anne Meese), Silent Bryant (whose first wife is believed to have been Lucy Doniphan), Thomas Bryant (who appears to have married his Indian housekeeper, Eleanor), and Martha Bryant (who married Thomas Foley). Dr. Richard Bryant married Anne (Meese) Redman, daughter of Col. Henry Meese and his Patawomeck wife. Anne was traditionally the young widow of William Redman, an orphan of the 1666 massacre who was raised by the Redman family. They had children: Nathaniel Bryant, Dr. Richard Bryant (who married Seth Anderson, an apparent descendant of Cockacoeske, Queen of Pamunkey), Elizabeth Bryant (second wife of Richard Elkins), Ann Bryant (wife of William Proctor), Silent Bryant (wife of Thomas Jeffries), and Susannah Bryant. Dr. Richard Bryant (II) and Seth left a multitude of descendants in the Stafford/King George County area. Their daughter, Margaret Bryant, married her cousin, Samuel Owens, son of John Owens and Elinor Bryant (of the Wahanganoche bloodline). Leah Owens, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret, married her cousin, James Monteith, son of Thomas Monteith and Phyllis Gallop (the half-sister of Leah’s father, Samuel Owens). Two of the daughters of James and Leah Monteith (namely Keziah and Leah) married sons of their maternal uncle, Reuben Owens, whose wife was also a daughter of a sister of Margaret Bryant, above! George Owens, another son of Reuben, married his cousin, Lucy Rogers, whose mother, Ascenith, was another one of the daughters of James and Leah Monteith. Arroyah, daughter of James and Leah Monteith, married her first cousin, John Finnall, son of Jonathan Finnall and Magdalen Monteith. Enos Monteith, son of James and Leah, married Eleanor Redman, believed to have been a great granddaughter of William Redman and Catherine Elkins, both of Patawomeck blood. Samuel Monteith, son of James and Leah, married Mildred Fines, a descendant of the Patawomeck orphan, Elizabeth Ontonah Curtis. From all of these close intermarriages of Patawomeck descendants, it is no wonder how the Indian blood was kept strong. " http://www.patawomeckindiantribeofvirginia.org/ct-menu-item-35#Wahanganoche |
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| Pocahontas Matoaka Amonute Powhatan (*1595-†1617) as great-grandparent | |
| Richard Bryant (~1629-†1704) as husband | |
| Chief Wahanganoche (*1615-†1663) as father | |
| N.N. Pettus (*1626-†1701) (Daughter of Ka-Onee And Thomas Pettus) as mother | |
| Colonel Thomas Pettus (*1598-†1663) as grandparent | |
| Ka-Okee (*1611-†1642) as grandparent | |
| Keziah Arroyah (*1639-†1690) as main character |