Re: Confusions by recently-come Fly-family genealogists
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Re: Confusions by recently-come Fly-family genealogists
James Whitney Fly 1/23/08
Hello Cousins,
Old age is catching up with me rapidly as I flip the calendar pages and sense the subtle changes in my mental functions. I give thanks each day that there remains to me a full enjoyment of what is left to me. Countless others of my contemporaies have not been so fortunate. I report discovery of a promising new treatment for my Mogellan's disease. More later.
Where I can now be of the greatest value to the family history, as I now view matters, is to continue to point out known errors or recently acquired information that may not have been generally assimilated by the majority of the present searchers for the FLY-family connection.
I refer particularly to the data positing the FIRSTBORN of Elisha, SENIOR, as "JANET", "Jeanette", "Jane" (Fly) WattHardikinnon/Hardicane of Montgomery Co., TN. The year of her birth was given as 1764, suggesting that Elisha Fly, sr.took his bride, from among the Cherokees in the Piedmont country of North Carolina not all that far from where his father, William, sr., witnessed that Land Deed in Granville Co., NC in 1862. Some researchers have opined that the Native Americans available to Elisha Fly, sr. had to be Coastal tribes; but Elisha was living in Granville Co. with his father, William; and the Cherokees were still calling themselves "Rightful Lords of the Soil" in the Piedmont. The area lay between the Yadkin and the Catawba rivers. The reference was for the year1760.
I don't consider it remarkable that Chiefs' Daughters would, in the family stories, be called "Cherokee Indian Princesses". If the white hunter, living among the Cherokees, was smart, I expect he saw considerable merit in taking to wife a "Chief's Daughter". If he treated her well, I daresay he scored points with the Chief. I ask myself, "Were George Guest/Guess and Elisha Fly, sr. Brothers-in-Law?"
We report here that family lore recounts that Jeremiah Fly's family hosted Sequoyah during his stay in and passage through Arkansas toward the end of his life. The way it was put was "Sequoyah stayed with the Fly family when he passed through on his travels in the west."
Enough for now.
Cousin Jim
James whitney Fly
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Re: Confusions by recently-come Fly-family genealogists
James Whitney Fly 3/19/08