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@seanseoltoir

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, voluntarily submitting your DNA to the government could never possibly have bad repercussions for you, right? LMAO...

@SafetySpooon

Жыл бұрын

Wow, you look almost exactly like your great uncle!!

@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824

Жыл бұрын

What a twist! I didn't see that coming.

@kenoglesby5840

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Lance for sharing this little known American history that deserves to be remembered; especially your personal connection. You are "the spitting image" of the guy in the top hat🤔😁😎

@cyankirkpatrick5194

Жыл бұрын

It seems that you always state history first and then give us a surprise just like you did with the Gold episode and then springing the award from KZread with the gold play button clever History Guy

The way you say the last line with such pride deserves to be remembered.

@IceLynne

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@WvlfDarkfire

Жыл бұрын

They aren't asking for reparations, just recognition and remembrance.

@IceLynne

Жыл бұрын

@@WvlfDarkfire please explain how your remark has anything to do with anything in this video or this persons comment.

@rockymountainlifeprospecti4423

Жыл бұрын

2nd that!!

@shabazan

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it deserves to be remembered and celebrated. You sir, brought a tear to my eye. … much respect!

What a special episode of The History Guy. It isn't every day history impacts you in such a personal and prideful manner. Thank you for sharing your history with us. The History Guy and his lineage deserves to be remembered.

Thanks, THG. What a twist ending! I love this episode, your highness!

Wiccomico of the Powhatan confederation here, my great grandfather was full blood Indian, native of Tidewater VA, near the James river. They were one of the first tribes to be robbed, forced to assimilate. What’s amazing is how he was able to stay pure blood after so many generations. Incidentally, he was 7’0 tall.

@whiskeymonk4085

Жыл бұрын

The Natives robbed/enslaved eachother for hundreds of years.

@mattbrown837

Жыл бұрын

Have you done a D.N.A. test?

@GrannyG63

Жыл бұрын

I also am. As my gr x8 grandfather was William Taptico, the last chief.

@whiskeymonk4085

Жыл бұрын

They weren't "robbed". They lost a WAR against a superior enemy. It happens. Deal with it like a man.

@GrannyG63

Жыл бұрын

@Whiskey Monk remember that when America aka west China is forced to speak Chinese or Spanish

Small note about matrilineality: the chief's mother would not have been the daughter of the previous chief but his sister. Matrilineality is based on the observation that whereas you cannot always be certain about a person's father (before DNA of course), you CAN be certain of their mother for obvious physical reasons. Thus, while the chief and his daughter may not be blood relatives, the chief and his full sister certainly are since they share the same mother. In matrilineal societies it is also typical that a male child's closest male relative is not his father but his mother's brother, who is his nearest elder male relative since he belongs to the same matrilineal clan while his father belongs to a different clan -- presuming of course that the clans are exogamous, as they usually are. However, matrilineality should not be equated with matriarchy (as certain 19th century theorists such as J.J. Bachofen and Friedrich Engels postulated); numerous historical native societies have been matrilineal but few if any of them have been matriarchal.

@mikewithers299

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting information I never knew

This story just had me enthralled for some reason, and then the twist at the end put the biggest smile on my face! Really puts everything into perspective and gets the mind thinking and pondering the "what ifs" and "I wonder"!! I've often considered trying a DNA search and looking deeper into my heritage, but I am usually hampered when you get passed the greats and great-greats! This has truly piqued my curiosity!!

@keppscrossing

Жыл бұрын

Give it a try! Count on it being slow progress. But the rewards can be really worth it. My family tree is quite extensive because we've been working on expanding it for a couple of generations I know that at least my great grandmother worked on it, and so has every generation since. Right now we can trace some lines back to the mythical Norse chronicles which are highly suspect, but the most accurate record of that era, and also to similar in Ireland. But my paternal line dead ends in the 1850s. We knew my third great grandfather came from Germany, but did not know where. I can't find him on any ships' manifests either. But about 15 years ago I found somebody else's family history that clearly described him, his wife, and his children, with some variations of spellings of names, but all very similar, and the same number of children with birth years within a year or two of my family records. This was eight children, so the match was very clear. They had a record of him being born in Koben an der Oder in Prussia, which I recognized to be a town name on the Oder Rver. But I couldn't find that town both by Internet searches, and following the Oder river from its source in the Czech Republic to the Baltic Sea on Google maps. After a long time of periodic searching, and I don't remember how long it was maybe a year or two, I found a website with a list of current Polish names of former German cities. Koben an der Oder is now called Chobienia, Poland. So, that line isn't from "Germany" because Germany did not yet exist when he left. They were ethnic Germans living in modern-day Polish territory. So the descendants of those who stayed are some of the ethnic Germans that Hitler used as an excuse to invade Poland about 85 years later. In the 15 or so years since I found that he came from Koben an der Oder my sister-in-law has found the names of his parents and some sparse information on them. They were born in the same general area, but that was part of the holy Roman empire at the time, so German ethnicity but not German citizenship because they were born about 80 years before Germany existed. So far we've been unsuccessful with finding church records to expand this, but that's not surprising since that area of Poland was devastated in both world wars. In the late 1800s one of my brothers found that as an old, senile, blind man one of my great great grandfather's had his teenage son (that adds another quirk to the story) who was mentally handicapped shoot the neighbor. The boy was found not guilty based on his young age and his mental capacity, and the old man was clearly crazy. About it being slow going, I personally have found very little sense the Koben an der Oder discovery, but one of my sisters in law for the most part but also my brother and their kids, have found a lot. They have created a Family Tree with over 16,000 people in it. Much of that was identified by previous generations, but they have certainly added quite a bit. I don't know what to guess but likely 1000 or more. Including finding the next generation of our Prussian line. I tell you those stories, just to motivate, because certainly there are interesting stories to be found in your family tree.

@tonybarnes3858

Жыл бұрын

piqued

As a Maryland native, I've been aware of Wicomico County, etc, but never knew the tale behind it. Thanks for the enlightenment.

@slughunter20

Жыл бұрын

I live right next to Wicomico County and work there. When I saw the title of this video I figured the two names had to be associated somehow. Its a beautiful area, but unfortunately it is starting to get a bit crowded for my tastes.

@stevebengel1346

Жыл бұрын

​@@slughunter20definitely becoming way too crowded 😔

@joshharris9788

10 ай бұрын

Also, there is a hall by the same name at University of Maryland College Park. My daughter went there, but I did not learn until a few years later that I am a direct descendant of Chief Taptico..

My mother's ancestor stowed away on a boat at 13 from Norway and when they found him he was put ashore in Georgia and the Cherokee Chief took him in. Her family walked the trail of tears. When my mom left Oklahoma in the 40s her her whole family was small and blond when she went back to Oklahoma where she was born and ask about any people with the last name of Parkerson the only person in the area was a big dark native American. You never know who is in the family tree by what you look like.

@IceLynne

Жыл бұрын

I love your story. It makes me sad when people paint others with a wide brush like; you're white and have the "white experience" or you're black and have the "black experience", it's just not true. Each person and their family histories are important and they all take unexpected twists and turns. Everyone should be respectful of each other because we don't even know the history of the individuals we meet on a daily basis. I think each person's story should be recorded for history sake.

@barbaraborgia3289

Жыл бұрын

I’m also a blue eyed blonde with some Cherokee ancestry and Jewish ancestry. According to my DNA test, I’m a carrier for Tays Sachs.

@Hollylivengood

Жыл бұрын

I knew a family like that. The parents were so pure looking, So Cherokee, and really dark, and the wife at least said her family were very particular about marrying Cherokee people, so she was 100% Cherokee, and her husband was nearly so, he just had the one German great grand parent. So as it turned out, they had these three sons, two of which looked very native like their parents, and one towering, blond haired blue eyed, Saxon looking son who everyone thought was adopted. He was actually 90% Cherokee. Those genes get handed down the family tree in funny ways.

@KillrMillr7

Жыл бұрын

No you don’t. My great grandfather married a little petite Swiss woman, blonde blue eyes. They say opposites attract, he was 7’0 tall, Powhatan Indian they must’ve been a sight.

@whiskeymonk4085

Жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Warren... is that you?

This one was GREAT!!! By far, the absolute BEST episode of THG that I have watched to date! I must admit, I despised history in high school, but thanks to you and a select few others I now, at the age of 61, cannot get enough of it! Had my high school teachers possessed your talent, history likely would have been my favorite subject!!!

@mikewithers299

Жыл бұрын

Same with me. Struggled with history my whole life, now at 60 I absorb these lessons like a sponge. I wish Vance was my history teacher too

There are quite a few known examples of Native American tribes which disappeared. In some cases it’s recorded that the last few dozen members of a vanishing tribe joined other tribes and essentially gave up their separate identities. It seems likely this was the pattern in most cases. At a certain point people realize they’ve fallen below the critical mass necessary to maintain a separate culture and seek homes among other groups. It’s fortunate that the English kept adequate records to trace some of the Wiccocomico. I’ve read that during the westward expansion some smaller tribes just disappeared and nobody knows what happened to them.

I have a distant ancestor who fought in Revolutionary War on the side of Canada, his last name was Fornier. He came from the St Lawrence valley. Over the centuries that side of the family moved to New York, Pensylvania, and eventually Ohio, where my Grandma was born in 1909. I was born in Indiana and I now live in Wisconsin.

Really enjoyed this one. I grew up in the Tidewater area. Lived in Chesapeake most of my life. Great to hear this history.

@RetiredSailor60

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Chesapeake from 1999-2001 off Military Hwy.

@tombrickhouse-growthmatrix6201

Жыл бұрын

I was born in Norfolk, VA in 1952 and lived there until the late 80s. Do they still call the area "Tidewater"?

@RetiredSailor60

Жыл бұрын

@@tombrickhouse-growthmatrix6201 Yes they still call the area Tidewater. I used to go watch the Norfolk Tides play baseball...

@jwv6985

Жыл бұрын

@@tombrickhouse-growthmatrix6201 yes, it's still called tidewater.

@franksayre9011

Жыл бұрын

@@tombrickhouse-growthmatrix6201 Norfolk General 1952. And my twin sister!

When you mentioned Elizabeth Taptiko changing her name to Tapp, I immediately wondered whether my daughter-in-law is another descendant of William Taptico. Her 8th great grandfather was in my family tree as William Tapp, born in 1689 and dying in 1719. She is descended from his son William J Tapp, his son Fielding Lewis Tapp I, his son fielding Lewis Tapp II, his daughter Nancy Tapp Soper, her daughter Emaline Soper Morris, her son Benjamin F. Morris, and his daughter Ruth Morris Ferguson and her daughter Anna Ferguson Coleman - who is my daughter-in-law's grandmother. No one in the family knew about his life story. What a neat heritage! I have changed my family tree to reflect his complete name William Taptico and information about his story.

@AaronTapp

Ай бұрын

Still learning and wish I knew more about my last name and how I tie into it all :)

Love that last twist! Congratulations on telling a little of your family's history!

What a priceless record of your family history. One of my ancestors, Richard Pace, was one of those Jamestown settlers in about 1613. I'm fond of early American history, the earliest settlements in particular. True, it was 416 years ago that the first "permanent" English settlement was established at Jamestown, Virginia Colony. They weren't the first English settlers, though. The first settlement attempted by the English was at Newfoundland by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583. In 1585 a settlement was attempted on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's outer banks. Both these attempts failed. Under direction from Sir Walter Raleigh, John White led a second attempt to establish a colony on Roanoke Island in 1587 with English men, women, and children. White's granddaughter, Virginia Dare, was born there and became the first English child born in the new world. That colony mysteriously disappeared and became the "Lost Colony." For more details, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony A fascinating essay about the Lost Colony can be found here: www.andrewlawler.com/it-was-americas-first-english-colony-then-it-was-gone/ I'm very grateful you didn't suggest that Plymouth Colony was the first English settlement. That error has been taught by so many in times past that it's a regular argument for those of us with Jamestown settlers in our ancestry.

@kennethpace9887

Жыл бұрын

Richard Pace is my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather. I'm sure you know about Paces Paines and 1622. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre_of_1622

@ron.v

Жыл бұрын

@@kennethpace9887 Hi Cousin Kenneth. Yes, I know about Paces Paines. I took my children to the 1994 family reunion when the current owners allowed our buses of Pace relatives to visit the property. I'm also aware of the massacre. There are lots of books on the Pace Family and many more on Jamestown and early English settlers. I'm the happy owner of several of them. It's great to 'meet' you via modern tech. I think everyone who descended from Richard Pace has heard family stories. Gotta love 'em.

Congratulations and job well done!! As a neighbor and friend to the Mattaponi tribe I am so excited to see our history here!! Please read Dr Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow and his book "The True Story of Pocahontas." Because of this I know you'll meet many more decendants and new cousins.

I found through ancestry that I’m descended from a Johnathan Squires who married an Ethelia, who’s father was chief of the Nanticoke and mother was of the Machapunga. He would be my 11th great grandfather paternally.

This was without a doubt, the most interesting video to date~ even to a Canadian. Many congratulations on being able to trace your family history that far back.

I lived in the Hampton Roads area for almost 15 years, and am ashamed to admit I never heard of the Wicocomico.

@chuckaddison5134

Жыл бұрын

I had never heard of them either, until I passed through the itty bitty burg of Wicocomico east of Kilmarnock.

Thanks for the recognition. I appreciate this video. My name is Jason Tapp and dna confirmed Wicocomico Taptico descendant.

This is an excellent video and reinforces why history should be remembered. If we should ever meet, how should I address a man of such lofty lineage?

@carolynhowk146

Жыл бұрын

That's easy! Colonel Geiger - he's a Kentucky Colonel, after all.

Wonderful episode! And with so much incredible history in your past, no wonder you are The History Guy! Well deserved!🇺🇸

My God, man! That was an unexpected ending! Incredible! Royal! Fantastic. That really made my day. I'm exceptionally happy for you to be able to share that story.

That family connection of yours is SO great! We live in Southern VA, and the history is incredible.

What an incredible story! And what a beautifully-revealed surprise. From proud roots, indeed!💜💜💜

Well done, Sir. I am a native, and still current resident, of Chesapeake, Virginia, and I enjoy learning about our history.

Excellent commentary. My Grandfather was 1/4 Eastern Cherokee. I worked at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, from 2000-2004.

Thank you 🙏. I teach history and science at Kiptopeke elementary school on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and this is how tomorrow's lesson will begin.

Fantastic episode as always! Loved the ending ❤❤

I think that this might have been the most interesting yet of all the videos you have posted. It's good to know where you come from. It's good to know who you are. I was 40 years old before I learned that my father's people were French. And that my grandfather was the first Freeman in the family line. That the original family name, Foisy, had been changed, "Americanized". But by then there was no one left alive who could explain to me why this had been done. All Internet searches had revealed to me was that my great-uncle Trefle Metras had survived the Bataan Death march, and indeed survived the war. History does deserve to be remembered. And steps should alwasy be taken to ensure that it is never forgotten.

Awesome! I discovered a 7th great grandmother to be a "Full-blooded Cherokee with long black hair." And Constance Hopkins from the 1620 Mayflower journey is my 10th great grandmother. Genealogy / family history and History in general is Most Fascinating!

It's fun to trace your ancestry. I found out I have a sea captain and a veteran of the Revolution in my ancestors.

Very interesting episode. The conclusion was a treat & I sure didn’t see it coming. William Bartram deserves a couple episodes!

Love the history videos. The history of the Montauketts (or Montauks) on Long Island is also of great interest.

Enjoyed this immensely. I've been digging through my genealogy via DNA results for the past year. One of my 8th-great-grandfathers was a burgess for James City County in 1649, and one of my 7th-great-grandfathers was a Burgess for Stafford County during the 1690s. Suffice it to say I found a lot of deep roots in the Virginia Tidewater. If I find myself distantly related to The History Guy, I will consider it an honor.

Facinating account. I recently found out rhat my Great grandfather was at the retreat of Mons.

King Lance!! This episode illustrates the interesting historical figures that the majority of us have somewhere in our vast ancestral tree. Sadly, most of it just slips away as each generation mostly only knows those generations that were alive during their youth.

This is my new favorite episode! I’m from the area just north of the old Kingdom of the Wiccocomico. Stafford, Spotsylvania, and King George Counties. I have always enjoyed the rich history that the area has to offer. One of which is its ties to some of the earliest inhabitants of this great nation. I grew up next one of the largest of the tribal areas where Pocahontas was supposedly originally taken. Modern day Marlborough Point in eastern Stafford County. Loved hearing about some more of the local tribal history, and of course it’s sad demise.

Really enjoyed this. I've spent most of my life between Northern Virginia and the tidewater area. Now living in the town of Heathsville in the great Northern Neck. Greetings!

@jneale5204

Жыл бұрын

I lived near Callao all my life and there was a large oak tree in Heathsville that fell in the late 80s, I can't remember what year, called the Chicacoan Oak. It stood close to Rt. 360 right between the Subway parking lot and the vacant lot that used to have the office for the Northumberland Echo.

I live with my wife on a small farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, am Native and found this especially intriguing. I'm a big history buff, and Native history is particularly important to me. My other history passion is espionage. Yeah, have fun trying to psychoanalyze those two concepts existing in the same body! LOL! Who would have thought that I could possibly see you, The History Guy, at PWows Truly, this was a great episode. Thanks THG!👍🏻

You inherited the custom of oral history, presenting the past through spoken language.

You can come and see some of your ancestral domain and stay on the sailboat in Kilmarnock (Indian Creek), VA. Happy to host you😎. Great episode! We have a farm in SD and live on the Blueridge (ex-Mannahoac land). The parents are smack dab on “your” land in the Wicocomico further down the Northern Neck. Great history!

Well I guess we’re family. A few years ago I decided to look into why my middle name, a family name that has been included in every male in my family since before we could remember was so important. My middle name is William. I’m a DNA verified descendant of William Taptico and just found this video. Thank you so much for doing this work, Cousin. Another cool member of the Taptico/Tapp family is Vincent Tapp, who fought with the Culpeper Minutemen during the Revolutionary War.

It deserves to be remembered that the History Guy is the descendent of a King.

I lived in that area, just north of the York river, for a couple years. Although interested, I never really studied the history like I should’ve. You have inspired me to investigate, learn, and remember. Thank you History Guy!

This was fascinating! Thanks for sharing. I descend from William Taptico and Christian Bourne via their daughter, Mary Tapp, who married William Yeats/Yates. The Chief was my 8th Great Grandfather. Mary's daughter, Susannah Yeats, was my 4th Great Grandmother.

@NickTapp

6 ай бұрын

Amazing! I come from the same lineage, Vincent Tapp born 1726 is my 5th great grandfather.

The most interesting thing I found about my family tree was my Grandpa's brother Loyal. Newspaper articles said he was the bain of law officers across an entire continent. He liked to travel and from the age of 12 on he would wander around the country. At one point he even ended up in England. I hadd been afraid of having a boring heritage but Uncle Loyal saved me from the mundane.

I live on the Potomac near the mouth. A good resource is the Essex County courthouse in Tappahannock. It is one of the few in Virginia not burned by Yankees or British. Well done with the personal connection.

I loved the twist ending. Great to have roots going back that far. The treatment of the natives by the invasive species of the Europeans is a disgrace, I fear, we will never live down nor be able to "make right".

I don't know if there are any native Americans in my background, but my mother, and hence myself, are descended from a very early settler to New Jersey.

Since you mentioned Schenectady. Have you considered doing a video on the Schenectady massacre 1690. I allways like the part about the snowmen.

That is the coolest ending ever! So neat that you could discover this about your roots.

Wow! What a powerful ending!

Could it be? I mentioned not but a month ago about a meta history guy episode on the history guy. Yeah I'm going with it.... Thanks for listening history guy, and you're welcome rest of the world!

Nice surprise at the end! One of my direct ancestors came to Jamestown in late 1619 or early 1620, so our ancestors may have crossed paths 400 years ago.

This was one of the coolest episodes you've ever made! And how awesome to be able to tie an episode into your own history-and to find out that you have such incredible roots! Right on, History Guy!

Cool episode! I live in Spotyslvania country and have seen the Wiccomico historical marker. Very interesting! Lance, you look very much like your uncle!

A great ending to history from several hundred years ago. Very impressive ancestors!

Top tier tie-in twist!

I'm hoping to save enough to find out my grandma's heritage. It's so cool to hear stories about where we came from, who we are decended from. Truly history that deserves to be discovered and remembered. ♥

@IceLynne

Жыл бұрын

Using the link he provided you can have it done for $39 + shipping.

@lizj5740

Жыл бұрын

@@IceLynne That will only give general information about what geographic region her genes come from...unless her grandmother happened to also have added her DNA to that particular company's records.

@WildWestGal

Жыл бұрын

If your grandma is still living, you'll want to do the test on both of you. Keep a watch on the different DNA companies as they always have sales on their kits, and they always have one around Mother's Day which is coming soon!

@lizj5740

Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestGal Good tip, WWG!

@IceLynne

Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestGal good idea 👍

Part of my people! Thank you for this episode. I’m surprised you did mention the Nansemond Elizabeth and John Bass.

i don't normally comment on videos but I came across your video because i was specifically looking for info on William Taptico. According to my family search William Tapp IV ( great-grand son of William Taptico) is my 7th Great-Grandfather! It's crazy!! That make us very distant cousins! The end of your video blew my mind! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE VIDEO!!

You are a natural treasure of the United States 🇺🇸

That has been local history to me for many years. Wonderful telling and perfect ending.

I will definitely have to do some more research on my family... I can trace family back to Spotsylvania, VA around 1800. It'll be interesting to see if there is any connections.

Always glad to see Pocky and see lucky? For the first time, your information is told in a great manner and you make it interesting, thanks

I live in Montross where the chicacoan tribe was. Im from Maryland and my family came over with Capt John Smith and Father Andrew White on the Dove. We were one of the first 5 families in St. Mary's city. My grandfather wore a bow tie . I enjoyed your video

I wonder if our families knew each other? My great to the umpteenth grandfather was the 12th signatory of the Mayflower compact; dr. Richard Warren. His grandson (also dr. Warren) was a hero and Martyr of the Revolution, his death at the Battle of Bunker Hill is the subject of a famous portrait.

That was a cool twist at the end

How utterly delightful! Thank you for sharing your history that deserves to be remembered!

The new king has been crowned! King history!

When I lived in Tidewater, my sister in Richmond would sometimes take us to a pow wow on a Saturday, I think, they were fun.

Helen Rountree was my teacher/advisor for my minor in anthropology at Old Dominion University. Good to hear her referenced here.

The end made my day. I have so much respect for what you do. Crown Prince History Guy?

I loved the twist that these were your own ancestors. Thanks for sharing your own history with us, as well as so much other special history.

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, and I was amazed at how much you look your great, great uncle, I thought you had put a computer generated aged photo of yourself up there at first. Great show. 👏

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

Жыл бұрын

LOL that was a joke, really. That is an AI photo of me.

@onliwankannoli

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Nice. I did think the part about him being a haberdasher was a bit too ironic.

@mylucidlife495

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel ha ha ha ha ha! Good one, THG.

@brianjonker510

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel i fell for it and mike drop to you for pronouncing Schenectady correctly

@dldove22

Жыл бұрын

My first cousin does look like our great-grandfather.

I am devastated! I understood that the native Americans the European settlers displaced had centuries of peaceful, blissful existence before the European arrival. To find they had wars, slaughters, slavery, discrimination, just is terrible

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

Жыл бұрын

Yes, actually quite brutal. Stone age life wasn't as happy-go-lucky as some seem to imagine.

To know your personal history is a great honor. My Mother's side of Chippewa is hidden from my family.

If only we knew more about our ancestors...most fascinating. I've been fortunate to find the resting places of my paternal grandparents back to great,great,great granddad. Sometimes sad. I found the grave of my great,great grandmother who died in 1873...a small lonely cemetary in the middle of a cow pasture. She was only 30 years old, I cleaned her small stone and with a tear in my eye remembered her with a hymn and a single flower.

I’m so jealous that you know so much of your family’s history! I think this is my favorite episode. Not because of the story - the story is actually very sad. But as you were telling the story (YOUR STORY) the pride you have for your people was obvious.

From a person who has lived most of my life in the area. The way you say the tribe name is so funny to me. I've never heard a person pronounce Wicomico that way.

Back when Pocahontas was released by Disney. Her 8x Great nephew was trying to get Pocahontas remains returned to the States. So she could be returned to homeland. That nephew was The Midnight Idol Wayne Newton!🌈🌈🌈🌠 The More You Know!

I am grateful that you have been able to discern all this. A proud and noble civilization has been run over roughshod. “Raymond ‘Buddy’ Hensley” born in Richmond Virginia.

WOW!! I just learned I am a descendant of Chief William Taptico, the last Wiccocomico (seventh great grandfather). We're cousins!!!!

This is now my favorite episode. I'm absolutely flabbergasted at the details you unearthed and am beaming with pride for you and your ancestors!! How amazing! Thank you, really, thank you for sharing this!

I am a native Virginian and my tribe was the Patawomeck. We have res erected our tribal family connections and much of it is from the great efforts of tribal historian and genealogist William Deyo.We have concluded that Pocahontas had a girl child prior to marrying John Rolfe and before she was kidnapped to insure a peace between the colonists and Great Powhatan.

Whats up cuz! Haha. I came to watch this bc I found out I am also a descendent of William Taptico. Thanks for making this!! I grew up in the Richmond, VA area as well. Very informative, thanks again. :)

Thanks for the awesome content and great video!!

I grew up in Gravesend, England where Pocahontas is buried, there’s a statue of her in a local churchyard

as always well presented - thx

It is always such a pleasure to listen to and learn history from you. Thank you for each of these efforts. It is greatly appreciated.

The last few lines sent chills down my spine and put a smile on my face

Pardon my French but you're GD right it deserves to be remembered!! That's truly fascinating.

As a Cherokee citizen I say welcome. Many tide water tribes sought refuge with the Cherokee in those days. We are still here.

So, your Uncle Euphrates (now, that's the most epic, awesome name ever!) owned a haberdashery. And also wore bow ties. Now I see from where you get your fashion sense and style!

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LOL sorry- that was just my sense of humor. I don't have a great uncle Euphrates, that is a picture of me.

As someone that grew up in the Champlain Valley I recognize that most modern people really have no idea about North American indigenous peoples. They seem to think that everyone here sang kumbaya round fires every day and lived in perfect harmony until Europeans showed up. They were people and often fought and warred with each other. In the Champlain Valley there were many that couldn't wait to get ahold of modern tools to use and modern weapons to use against old enemies.

I always get more info on all your videos than I had before, thank you! The great great grandparents thing is really cool, too!

That's really cool, thanks for sharing your family's story

Tracking ones lineage can be fascinating. Still looking for the guys that went to prison. One Great Uncle no one know what happened to him when he went West from Maryland.