Kerr's Creek Massacre on Scots-Irish Settlers by Cornstalk's Shawnee Warriors, Virginia, 1759 & 1763 

Cornstalk was my ancestor.

Very interesting.

What an amazing story how wonderful to be related to such a strong man

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The Gilmores were also the same to me.

John Gilmore is my 8 GGF

Me too!

Nice!

Wow how cool they have that piece of History!❤

That’s ao awesome!❤

@@lauriedavis5137READ ABOUT WHITE HISTORY & JESUS IS WHITE REVELATION 1:14:15. They erased whites history and are busy killing us in all white nations that they invaded for the World War III against us like Hitler and Stalin they literally a race or white history and America belongs to white people, so does Israel, Egypt and Iran

@@astrialindah2773read about white history. Please take the time to read what I typed.💚

Are you in the old Country? Americans have great admiration for these early settlers & take pride in our families histories. At least a good share of us do. They were tough folks in every respect.

@@shirleybalinski4535 I'm a Scot who lives about a 5 minutes walk from the site where William Wallace's family home once stood, it's just a monument now. And just 3 miles north-west of me is the town of Houston, Renfrewshire...It is named after Sam Houston's forebears, who once owned Houston Town, as well as some of the surrounding towns and lands. Yes, I have great admiration for the early settlers too, and of course, many of my ancestors had also taken similar arduous journey's to and across America.

@@jamesmills4850 ..My maiden name was Taylor. Some sea captain came over in the 1700's. A member of Dad's family traced the family back to 1200's in England( naturally). Mom's family came over late 1860's from Germany

@@jamesmills4850 ..You have a interesting family heritage too!! My family never made it to Texas. Most got as far as Michigan & Indiana( the Mid West) & settled down. One branch went to Iowa. That branch had a gentleman who was a captain on a wagon train going further west. That train had one run in with Native Americans but it didn't amount to much. My parents got a copy of his diary from that trip. The fellow didn't write much, mostly weather & how many miles they traveled each day. Each wagon master was obligated to keep a diary of the trip.. I would love to go West but, the US is so big( app.2,000 miles to Texas from where I live) & of course the expense. Thank you for your reply.

​@NVMVNV ..Daniel Boone led the first settlers thru the Cumberland Gap. Dr Thomas Walker had surveyed the mountains and found the Gap. No one had seen over the mts. I live on the KY side of the mt, about 3 miles from the tunnel that takes you into Tenn. Daniel Boone went on and established Boonsboro, a fort. His daughter and a friend were kidnapped by Indians, they'd gone out to get water. The book, "The Last of the Mochians." was based on that. When my ancestors came they stayed here in the mountains of southeast Kentucky. They wanted to stay in the mountains. They were Scots-Irish. No one knows why but the Indians wouldn't live in the mountains. They called "Kaintuc" the dark and bloody ground. The Indians came here to hunt.

thank you, good to hear!

Interesting, seems like a lot of Germans and Scots-Irish settlers went to western Virginia and Pennsylvania around this time.

The most famous playboy of Berlin was baptized as Rolf Eden. Greetings from Northern Germany.

@@ludwigderzanker9767 , The Eden branch of my family were a little poorer, so I haven't been able to find as much information on them. But they were also German! They also immigrated to the United States later than the other branches of the family mentioned in my original comment, like about 1890. In any case, I never knew about Rolf Eden, so thank you for giving me a new person to look up!😁

My family history is similar but they went from Lancaster PA to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois by 1762, establishing Friend's Creek (Decatur), Shelby (later Stewardson where Spain Cemetery 1832-1972 is all family ) and Springfield where my great grandmother was born in 1820. My grandmother was very close to her and told lots of stories about traveling across the country.

Interesting. I've been camping on St Mary's River east of Sault Ste Marie. I also had French fur traders in the family, (rumors of Chippawa ancestry) but they settled in Banff, Alberta, Canada then Idaho (family is actually mentioned in some memoirs from the Oregon Trail) then on to Roy, Washington where my grandfather was born in 1898.

I'm from the western end of the Upper Peninsula.

Thank you, I was about to say virtually the same thing.

THANK YOU! God the very first time he said it I cringed so hard I think I broke some ribs!

Someone else made a similar comment but my family has always said "Scotch-Irish dating back a couple of centuries. Any thoughts on why that would be? I'd rather be ButterScotch than Scotch Whiskey!

@@karentrimmer How can you possibly know your ancestors 200 years ago were saying scotch-irish?

@@OpinionatedChicken59 We have letters written by my great grandmother in 1838, family history that she wanted passed down.

You're his descendant, he is your ancestor.

@NVMVNV. JESUS IS WHITE please read about white history and America, Israel, Egypt, and Iran belongs to white people using DNA.

Interesting, my family has always said Scotch-Irish dating back to the 1800s, now you have me curious.

@@karentrimmer I think it might depend where you are. As an Australian whose grandfather was Irish-Scot he was offended to be called "Scotch" and we were all taught never to say it (unless we were talking about whisky.)

Good to meet you cousin! Robert’s daughter Jean Hamilton was my last Hamilton ancestor. Her family moved to Kentucky, Tennessee, then Texas by the 1850. The Hamilton’s are related to Robert the Bruce, and were part of Scottish royalty until they took up sides with Mary Queen of Scots. I hope to do an episode on that in the future. This is one of Robert Hamilton’s (and our) ancestors. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hamilton,_Duke_of_Ch%C3%A2tellerault

That’s true. Need to do a video on the battles of Hastings and Stamford Bridge.

Ha same here. Very common names where I grew up.

All lowland Scots names originally as king James expelled these and other border reivers to Ulster as a bulwark against the Catholics. So many Ulster Scots went to America and made their mark. I’m a Scot and have relatives in USA

Me too

I have "Waddells" in my ancestry but they were in Illinois. I've never heard of anyone else with that surname.

@@karentrimmer there are many of them in Mississippi.

Interesting! My records indicate that Robert Brown McKee died at Kerr’s creek in 1774.

@@unworthyhistory Yes, that's what I have in my family tree too! His son William Alexander to his son James to his daughter Elizabeth Mariah McKee. She married Andrew Smith Kerr....generations after Kerr's creek! They moved to Arkansas, where that line of my family ended up. So interesting! This has gotten me back into verifying and fact checking on my tree. Very much enjoying listening to your channel while working on it. God bless!

@NVMVNV what you referring to pilgrim

That’s why all Presbyterian Churches in Virginia for a long were called “Meeting Houses” because they couldn’t call it a Church as that was reserved for the Angelicans

Very interesting. They are my 7th great-grandparents, so that makes us distant cousins.

Yes it does. 💛 It is a pleasure to cross paths with you.

I understand exactly what you mean, Chief Cornstalk, my 6th great grandfather. I’m also of Cherokee descent, Irish, Scottish, German, and African. My 5th great grandfather was a slave in Virginia and was freed upon his master’s death. He married a Cherokee, my 5th great grandmother. So I understand, I don’t know how to feel.

@@melodiepatton2651 it’s a strange feeling to be divided like that. It’s hard to explain, as you know. I have asked myself for years how my people could have done that to my people. 💔

@@melodiepatton2651I understand how you may feel. My 7th great uncle was Cornstalk’s father, Johannes Abeel. I also think some of this history is biased in favor of white Europeans.

What a dreadful pity. To go into so much detail but skip over the millions of Irish Catholics who would not have been removed from their lands, and starved to death, if they would have denounced their religion. The Irish holocaust was the greatest per capita murder and expulsion of a nation's people in the history of the world, 15 out of every 16 poor souls died of starvation or were forced to emigrate. A huge portion to the Americas, where for instance the British had a thriving white slave trade with the Catholic Irish in Barbados. The book "To Hell or Barbados" is a shocking and incredible read on the savagery of the British colonies at that time. To then refer to the ones who took that land during that time of satanic cruelty in Ireland as Scots-Irish is incomprehensible. Still, the more I listen to the incredible details in this otherwise brilliant series, the more I see the deception of the British at that time clearly written between the lines. The viciousness used against the natives, who may or may not have been brutal beforehand, resulted in them despising the 'white man' who spoke with a forked tongue. That mirrors precisely what was done to the native Irish Catholics. The annihilation of their native culture and language is another exact comparison. The killing of the buffalo herd or the use of food deprivation as a weapon of war is a standard British tactic used in India, Africa, Australia, even Afghanistan, and of course the Irish holocaust. The first use of drugs as a vicious military weapon was another atrocity used by the British in the so-called Opium War against China, where millions have since died all over the world, which is directly attributable to the international drug cartel that originated by a British royal decree. The final and most outrageous onslaught against the victims of that dreadful barbarity is surely the rewriting of history to make the victims seem like the perpetrators or, as in the case of the Irish, as pagan savages that would either accept British civilization and the King's religion or be freed from their horrid lives through death by royal decree.

(((DOWN WITH THE BRITISH!!!)))

In the past the British committed many acts of terrible cruelty.

Nope. The Catholics in Ulster slaughtered Protestant women and children way before any of that happened. Cromwell's campaign itself was venegence against that.

​@Irlcork1 How many Protestants have been killed under Bloody Mary, man?

@jlaurelle Hi Mary Polly See (Zeh) daughter of Frederick Michael See (Zeh) was my 5th Great Grandmother and her son John Petro was my 4th Great Grandfather. When the Shawnee captured Catherine and the children I always wonder what exactly went on it must have been terrifying for them.

Recently found out that my 7th great grandfather, Valentine "felty" Yoakum and his wife were murdered and scalped in that massacre along with your ancestor Fredrich See. His son George who was taken prisoner then eventually fought in the battle of point pleasant a decade later. Fascinating.

Also the paternal side of my family are Hamilton's from Ulster. There is a possibility I maybe be related to the author of this channel.

Nice! Yes we probably are some degree of cousins. I guess McKee's are still marrying Hamiltons after all these years...

My father came from Derry, mother born Galway but lived most in Toombridge Northern Ireland. Our cousin married into McKee family they have a huge farm in Toombridge. Chances are good they are relatives.

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My mother's family lived in Glasgow as well as Galway and Toomebridge Northern Ireland. My great uncle James Grant was proprietor of Grant arms, which is still open today at 19 Argyle Street, 106 Main Street, Gorbals and 548 St. Vincent Street. Major stockholder Celtic board. My great grandfather, his brother was Francis Grant. Hotel in Toombridge also still in business today. My mother came to America 1936 age 16, Her father already here her mother passed away when she was eight. My father immigrated 1930 age 18.

They also married irish and English man.

@@brittanyhayes1043 Did i say they didn’t?

@@BigRed2 Spundwd like you weren't going to mention that fact.

@@brittanyhayes1043 Why would i? The point of my comment was he got the Scott-Irish term messed up as scott i irish are Scotts who’s ancestors came to Ireland to settle the plantations, you do know that’s why there is a country called Northern Ireland which is separate from the country of Ireland? lol

@BigRed2 I knew that but you forgot to add that they also married Irish and English to form the enthic group too.

Very cool! No, I haven’t looked much into Jesse James’ family history. Most of my KY McKee ancestors headed south into Tennessee, then down the Natchez trace into TX.

@unworthyhistory have you ever heard of a Meenach family?

what i hear i say. perhaps he hears what he says. its a hearing problem not a speech problem. sadly i also spell what i hear which causes far more problems then mispronunciation