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Note for: Harriet Ottaway, ABT 1814 -
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Residence: Date: 1871
Place: Kingston, Surrey, England
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Note for: Harriott Parritt, ABT 1809 -
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Residence: Date: 1851
Place: Clapton in Gordano, Somerset, England
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Note for: William Roper, ABT 1831 -
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Residence: Date: 1851
Place: St Pancras, Middlesex, England
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Note for: Henry Rose, ABT 1831 -
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Residence: Date: 1851
Place: St Pancras, Middlesex, England
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Note for: Mary Lois SMITH, 1677 - 1745
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Individual Note: PROVIDED BY LARRY ANDERSON : Mary Smith (Lois as middle name commonlygiven but I have seen no source for this at all. LA) was the daughter of William Smith and Grace, this much we do know positively. Also it seems fairly plain that at least John and Mary appear to have been on the same vessel which carried Mary's parents and brothers to the American shores in 1699. However, there is much lacking in our researchconcerning the brothers of Mary, or even more so, any possible sisters or other siblings other than the John, George and William Smith. It would be an interesting task to search some of these further connections for at least a few generations.
I can recall mostly forgotten stories passed down through our family that we were related to Captain John Smith and an Indian maiden. Further, as we have heard from our cousins, many of them quite distant, wehave heard similiar stories of some connection to this famous personage. Genealogies and especially traditions and stories of lost orgin are alway intriquing, interesting and often puzzling and perhaps impossible to follow or prove, but still they are worth passing on as a tradition, and who knows, perhaps someday the proof of the stories may find a way to surface.
In the March 1986 Hiatt Family Newsletter, we included a part of this
tradition which was also believed and followed further by Dr. Joseph Copeland. He passed away not long after this and his work was never published. I was highly questioned and criticized by that story as it is known and proven that this Indian Princess married a John Rolfe, and no one has proven any relationship, marriage or otherwise, to Captain John Smith. Even if there were a relationship, or marriage, it would not have been a legal one according to the English law of the day.Any child born would have been illigitimate with no claim to titles, lands or properties relating to the family. Such a child may even be shuned or denied by the rest of the family. If that is so, then therewill be little hope of finding the proof needed to document this claim. However, I still submit this as a tradition and a theory and personally believe it has merit. Perhaps someday someone might stumble upon the proof or disproof. Until then this line is included only for your interest and sharing.
Through some correspondence Dr. Copeland wrote ..."I have been working on my ancesty for the past few years since I retired. I am especially interested in the Copeland and Hiatt families paternal and maternal families.
I have my ancestry back to the 1600's for 61 out of 64 ancestors. All
were Quakers, beginning with the Immigrant John Hiatt and his wife Mary Smith. On a separate sheet of paper I am sending my Hiatt lineage as I have it. And the Smith lineage with notes and with comments as to the probable accuracy.
Generations 1 to 4 are unproven and are from traditions largely from my aunt Daisy Hiatt, sister of my mother, Alice Hiatt."
HIATT - SMITH LINEAGE
1. GEORGE SMITH m. ALIICE RICKARD WAHAN SONACOCK m. WINGANUSKE
b. ca 1555 b. ca 1558 b. ca 1540 b. ca 1570
ALGONKIAN (Native Americans)
Chief of Queen of
Powhatan Powhatan
2. Capt. John Smith m. MATOAKA (POCAHONTAS) b. ca 1595/6
b. ca 1579 ALGONKIAN (Native American)
Arr. Jamestown, Va. Princess of Powhatan
1607 (Perhaps mistress rather than wife)
d. 1631 never m 2nd to John Rolfe and had a son Thomas Rolfe.
legally married
3. PEREGRINE SMITH m. Mary
b. ca 1637 b. ca 1617 parentage unknown
Named after Peregrine Bertie,
son of Lord Bertie. *Said to have
had a sister, Mary.
4. William Smith m. GRACE JOHN HIATT m. MARGARET
b. 1643 b. ca 1646 b. ca 1650 b. ca 1652
Parentage Parentage
Unknown Unknown
5. MARY SMITH m. JOHN HIATT
b. ca 1675 b. ca 1674
Imm. Quaker Imm. Quaker
6. GEORGE HIATT m. MARTHA WAKEFIELD
b. 1698 Imm. from Ireland
Greenage, Ireland b. ca 1700 Quaker Minister
7. William Hiatt m. Charity Williams
b. 1742 Quaker b. 1750 Quaker
8. Benajah Hiatt m Elizabeth White
b. 1773 Quaker b. 1770 Quaker
Minister Minister
9. John Hiatt m Rebecca Unthank
b. 1804 Quaker b. 1806 Quaker
10. Josiah Hiatt m Rhoda Sheridan
b. 1830 Quakere b. 1839 Quaker
11. Alice Hiatt m Albert Luther Copeland
b. 1871 b. 1874
Quaker Missionary Quaker Minister
12. Joseph J. Copeland m Freda Luretta Bailey
b 1907 Birthright b. 1905, joined Quakers
Quaker
13. Janet Mrie Copeland m Alex Ciegler
b. 1931 b. 1924
14. Karen Audrey Ciegler m Craig Hansen
b. 1952 b. 1954
15. Joseph Craig Hansen
b. 1984 - Named after Great Grandfather Jospeh J. Copeland and his father
Craig Hansen.
His line is carried on down to his own person and to a grandchild, Jospeh Craig Hansen who was named after himself, Joseph Copeland.
Joseph Copeland, a birthright Quaker was a retired proffessor. He had
told me that he had carried on work that his grandmother and mother had been
doing for the past 100 years and that he was planning to publish his research
of this line. But as so often seem to happen, he became ill and apparently was never able to complete his task. Perhaps we can watch for this to come about through his children or grandchildren. There are many who would be very interested, I'm sure.
After publishing this lineage, I was heavily questioned about it as there is nowhere recorded a child by John Smith and Pocahontas and it is known and recorded that she was married and had a child by John Rolf.
However, since there was no real interest in trying to prove such a line
for well over 100 to 150 years later, no one seems to have taken mucheffort to record many things which were later important to our familyhistories.
However, many a novelist has speculated of the relationship between this Indian maiden and Capt. John Smith. It must be realized that in those times it was quite common to marry at an age of 14 or so, and that this Indian maidens love was quite a topic of authors.
In general, we know that the English laws of marriage were very strict and must be sanctioned by the Church of Enland in order to be recognized as a lawful marriage. In cases where subjects did not follow this order, they were often imprisoned and could have their lands and possessions confiscated. Children of such a marriage would have been illigitimate and not have claim in the English courts. This may have been the case as it was with John Hiatt and Mary Smith.
We find that as they were married by the Quaker Church their union was
declared illigitiate, and John imprisoned, after which time they wentto
Ireland as a temporary stop before making the exodus to the new lands.
Lands and properties were handed down through legal heirs, thus, it may have been that Perequin was never recognized as a legal heir, thus may never find a record of him as such. Certainly one would not hope to find a marriage bond as surely there would not have been one.
Life being as it was, and love and passion the same as today, would it not be nieve to think that Capt. John Smith, being lovingly cared for over a three year period in the wilderness of this new world would not have had a
relationship with his benefactor. Surely in the American Indian ways, she was at least in a sense wedded to her beloved Capt. John Smith. If we could
suppose this to be such a possibitlity, than would it still be not natural for a child to have been born them? Surely even without proof, this is a natural conclusion and it would certainly fit the traditions which have in various forms, been passed through many generations.
Also, as the story goes, John Smith as a young man, was raised with Lord
Bertie's son, Peregrine. Also that these young men toured much of Europe
together and were best of friends, thus when John's son was born he named that son after his lifelong friend, Peregrine.
Dr. Copeland also noted that Peregrine may also have had a sister, Mary.
Of course it must be stated that this is speculation, perhaps enough to cause
one to use it as such to try and find records which may prove or disprove any
or all of it.
We cannot rely on anything beyond William Smith and Grace as being proven, but it certainly is based upon some research and tradition. After Dr. Joseph Copeland passed away we have lost contact with his family and do not know what became of his research. He had planned to publish his research and work, we would love to see it and to have hope of discovering clues which might lead to proof. This information is only shared with hopes that someone with knowledge and ability may uncover the documentation of this postulate. Perhaps someone working on some data will, by pure accident, discover the missing documentation, perhaps with this information, even as it is, may spur research by a person or persons who might complete the work.