Ancestor bonding ... In my new project of ancestral research, I am carefully investigating each candidate along the way to avoid getting caught in the corruption that is rampant in tge public databases. In the process of doing this, I come to know each of them somewhat as people and feel as though I am visiting my relatives rather than just learning of their existence. Lately in researching one Great Grandfather a few generations back I have come to identify with him somewhat. He is a mixture of character as are we all. I am not sure if the story is entirely accurate but I share it here for my dear friends. Bemino (known to the settlers as Chief John Killbuck Sr) 1704-1811 Short family history of Bemino, Grandfather Nutimus (Turkey) Shawnee leader from New York/New Jersey area married Delaware Lenape wife and moved combined tribe to West Virginia. Father Netawatawees was principal Chief of Shawnee Delaware. He was married to a woman identified only as Nieswanan. Bemino was a medicine man and war chief of the Shawnee Delaware during the French and Indian war. His Daughter Myotaka Nieswanan married John Schoolbook. One of their sons was Leonard Schoolbook, a famous Shawnee renegade. Here is an excerpt on one of the exploits of Bemino: Seyberts Fort, 1758 located on Route 33 at Oak Flat, Pendleton Co, West Virginia Massacre at Fort Seybert.—Fort Seybert was a frontier post which stood twelve miles northeast of Franklin, the present seat of justice of Pendleton county. Like other structures of its kind, it was a place of refuge for the settlers when threatened by a savage foe. In May, 1758, when between thirty and forty persons were within the enclosure, it was attacked by a body of Shawnees. Finding neither threats nor bullets of any avail, the cunning savages resorted to strategy, and that, too, with most fatal success. They declared to the inmates that if they surrendered the fort their lives should be spared; but if not the siege would be continued until every one within should perish. This promise of safety lured the unfortunate victims and they yielded quiet possession of the fort. Perfidious wretches! What cared they for promises ? Of the number who surrendered, all except eleven, were at once put to death. [History and Government of West Virginia By Virgil Anson Lewis, 1896] Seyberts Fort was situated on the South Fork, twelve miles northeast of Franklin, in Pendleton County. At the time of this invasion, there was a fort located on the South Branch, garrisoned by Capt. James Dunlap and a company of rangers from Augusta county. Prestons Register states, that on the 27th of April, 1758, the fort at which Capt. Dunlap was stationed, was attacked and captured, the captain and twenty-two others killed; and, the next day, the same party, no doubt, attacked Seyberts Fort, killing Capt. Seybert and sixteen others, while twenty-four others were missing. Washington, at the time, placed the number as about sixty persons killed and missing. A gazette account, published at Williamsburg, May 5th ensuing, says: The Indians lately took and burnt two forts, where were stationed one of our ranging companies, forty of whom were killed and scalped, and Lieut. Dunlap and nineteen missing. Me Bemino
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:48:17 +0000
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