Notes:

Natchez metis (Natchez-English); Tensaw resident; Captured at Fort Mims Massacre @ 18 yo; Rescued by Efa Tastanagi, Dog Warrior of Atasi;

Susannah married Absolom SIZEMORE in 1816. Absolom (son of Arthur SIZEMORE and Mary Polly BAILEY) was born in 1790; died in 1854. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Susannah married Henry HATTERWAY about 1812. Henry died in 1813 in Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Petition of JOSEPH STIGGINS

Thanks to Woodrow Wallace for this contribution

Baldwin County
Mississippi Territory
August 1, 1811

To Honorable Legislator of Mississippi Teritory, Governor and Council:

The Humble petition of Joseph Stiggins Showeth that having formerly Resided in the Creek Nation amongst the Indians and marrying an Inddian woman by whom I had Children, that I moved to the Country and Edicated and brought up to the Cristian Religion, and finding it Disagreeable that by the law of our Teritory that they can't have their oath though borne of a free woman.

Your petitioner prayeth that they may be Released from that Disability the same that their oldest Brother, Geo. Stiggins, was by his own petition. Viz: Mary Stiggins, Susannah Stiggins, Nancy Stiggins and Robert G. Stiggins their poserity this Indulgence your petitioner thinks he justly Intitled to whilst he is forever Bound to pray.

/s/ Joh Stiggins

August 1, 1811

We the UnderSigners thinks that persons in foregoing petition is worthy of Mention, and prayeth that the Petition may be Granted.

William Pierce
Charles Woolf
Harry Toulmin
Buford Weekley
Abel St.-roll
Laz. Jno. Bryars
Benjamin Hoven
Thomas Smith
Edward Stidhams
John Pierce
Andrew Mixon
George Weekley
John Y. Clayton
Joseph Thomas
Wiseman Walker
Thomas Adcock
Moses Stidham, Senr.
John Hoven
Charles Smith

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Reference: Record Group 5 (Legislative Records, Territorial Archives), Volume 26, Petitions of the General Assembly, 1810-1816, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.

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Appeared in Mississippi Genealogical Exchange, March 16, 1974, and contributed then by Richard S. Lackey, Co-Editor.



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Joseph married Nancy Haw GREY in 1790. Nancy (daughter of UNKNOWN GREY) was born in 1766; died in 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Natchez, sister of Chinnabbee;