Notes for: Joshua Gore
Early Gore research was done by Mrs. Marilee Wirkkala, Naselle, Washington; Mrs. Mary Ann Bodine Piper, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Mrs. Otillie Milliken, Nacogdoches, Texas; and Norma Gore Luallen, Alexandria, Louisiana.
As was the case with the Bodines, the Gores came to Nelson Co., Kentucky from Loudoun Co., Va. The first member of this family who can be identified with certainty is Joshua Gore, d. 1785, Loudoun Co., Va. (Will Book C, p. 150). His first marriage was to probably to Elizabeth Clowes or Clews of a Quaker family. (In fact, a list made in the 1740s of residents of northern Virginia by the Church of England identifies the Gores themselves as Quakers.) Her father was Thomas Clowes/Clews/Close, b. ca. 1707, d. 7 Aug. 1784, Loudoun Co., Va. (Will Book C, p. 84) m. 4 Oct. 1728, Falls Meeting, Bucks Co., Pa., Christian Palmer, dau. of John Palmer and Christian ______. The will of Thomas Clowes mentions Joshua Gore, although not as an heir, and it does not specifically call Joshua Gore his son-in-law, so the proof of Elizabeth's identity is not absolute. However, Elizabeth Gore, formerly Clowes, is mentioned in Fairfax Monthly Meeting (Quaker) records on 31 Aug. 1754. Note also below that Joshua Gore's land was close to that of Thomas Gore.
Joshua Gore was on the Loudoun Co. tithable list of 1765. That Hannah was probably their oldest child is indicated in a three-lives lease from John Tayloe of Richmond Co., Va. to Joshua, Elizabeth, and Hannah on 10 Aug. 1758 (Loudoun Co. Deed Book A, p. 229). There is a similar deed between these two parties in Deed Book E, p. 138.
From: Acacat17 at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Subject: this is rather interesting
Hello Dave,
I had to share the following information with you as I thought you would at least find it to be rather entertaining. I am working alongside another Blue Jacket descendant/researcher and she has uncovered the following family tie:
Isaac Addison Bodine (1810-?)
married Mary Moriah Gore (1821-1902)
Mary Moriah Gore
was a daughter of Jonathan Gore (1793-1855) and Moriah Duncan (1800-1830)
Jonathan Gore was a son of
Jonathan Gore (1766-1849) and Margaret Peggy Rector (1770-1833)
Jonathan Gore and Margaret Peggy Rector had another son by the name of
Enoch W. Gore (1808-1879)
Enoch W. Gore married #2 Harriet M. Buky (1810-1840) and they had a son by the name of
Jonathan Gore (1833-1906)
Jonathan Gore married on Nov 10, 1858 in Johnson County, KS to
Sarah (Sallie) Bluejacket (1844-1924)
Sarah (Sallie) Bluejacket was a daughter of
Charles Kal-We Bluejacket (1816-1897)
and Julia Ann Wah-nah-ta-the-qua Daugherty (1827-1870)
Charles was a son of
George Bluejacket (1775-1831)
and an unknown Kispoko Shawnee woman (1780-1844)
George was a son of
Waweyapiersenwah Blue Jacket - War Chief of the Shawnee (1743-1808)
and a Kispoko Shawnee woman who was an older sister of Puckenshinwa
(Puckenshinwa was the father of Tecumseh)
The Shawnee Nation consisted of a very sophisticated system of government and social order. There were originally 12 clans in the tribe, but in more recent recorded history there were only 5. Spelling of these clans varies from one source to another. Thawegila and Chalahgawtha were the clans responsible for overall tribal government and politics - Peckuwe was the clan responsible for religious matters and order and duty within the tribe - Maykujay was the clan responsible for food, health and medicine - and the Kispokotha was the clan responsible for warfare, and the training of warriors for battle. In times of war, the ruling authority of the entire tribe shifted to the control of the War Chief. Tribal members were associated with whatever clan their father had been born into - no swapping or trading for clan assignments.
My own genealogy research likes the possibility of another son of Waweyapiersenwah and this Kispoko Shawnee woman as the potential father of my own ancestor, James Mackey (1790-1820). Our Y-DNA has been confirmed an exact match to known descendants of George Blue Jacket with a genetic distance of within about 25 years - a brother to George could possibly fit within these parameters. This other son's name was Spy Beech Blue Jacket (1758-1817) and he was known to have participated in numerous battles in OH, VA, and KY - which might at least allow for the possibility for him to have known Mary Mc Kee (my favorite choice for James' mother) in Hardin County, KY. Mary was a great granddaughter of Thomas Mc Kee by Margaret Tecumsapah Opessa (she was an Aunt of Waweyapiersenwah Blue Jacket). I suspect this Mc Kee family may possibly have harbored the Shawnee whenever they came into that area for assorted raids - which were rather frequent in this area in the mid to later 1700s.
There are many stories of families who lost family members to assorted Indian Raids - many were captured and taken captive. Most of these people within the Shawnee Nation were captured in order to replace Shawnee family members who had been lost in battle or other death related events. It was extremely important for the Shawnee to maintain a normal family unit as each person was responsible for specific duties to the other family members - so the overall Shawnee culture functioned more efficiently when their family units were all in tact. These captives were actually adopted into the tribe (after running the gauntlet to beat the "white" out of them). I suspect there are a great many other people who have such a heritage, but have never been aware of the possibility because these captives kept their European surnames since the Shawnee did not have surnames.
At any rate, I thought you might enjoy seeing this very extended family tie of our Bodine family line to the last great War Chief of the Shawnee Nation. :-)
Best Wishes,
Jan