Jane “Sandusky”, “Indian princess” - Native American DNA

There is one possibilty of proof for this with DNA. The mt-DNA, or mitochondrial DNA, if 1 or more documented living descendants (male or female) who have via their mother an all-maternal line back to Jane, we may get our proof. The mt-DNA haplotype or haplogroup would have to be identifiable as being of NA origin.

Maybe in the future we and others can find information to prove the theory.

I have often wondered why, as Jane's verbal exploits sometimes got her in trouble and a paper record survives, no one referred to her as Indian or native. I would think that would have been a point of interest at that time. I am very interested in her and hope something more can be unearthed.

I had looked into her contemperaneous Records, and she was fluent in the language of scolding others :)

If struck me as odd that she wasn’t referred to as Indian, others at that time were.

MtDNA could also be used as a rule out.

may I help a bit with some info to help form a better idea about Jane Sanduskys origin? I am a cousin to William Flanders from the Jamestown NY area and I live just 6 mile from York Maine. There was no English settlements until that of the Hilton party that landed across the river in what is now Dover, NH in 1623, There was however an indian village where the town of York is today, it was called Acominta, one of several villages of the Pennecook Indians Tribe, of which I am a decendant, After following along with the story of Jane it occurred to me how transcipts of old English writing bastardized native words and where written as close to the sound of the word phonetically, I have been helping people for decades in understanding the meaning of old places here that still have the indian words for them. So if Jane was born like it says about 1622 in York, she would have been a Pennecook Indian. I have yet to find any English settlers with the last name of Sandusky and that word appeared in American history as being in Ohio as a river name and the location of what was a loosely organized place of Seneca and Wyandot people along with others, that timeline is way off. But what does ring the bell back in Salisbury Mass. was when the woman called Jane a "Pennyconquick" hence an old English version of the modern name for a Pennecook woman, IT FITS...I hope I was able to help Janes story a bit. Bear Spirit Walking is my native name, I am Pennecook and Micmac and have found quite a few related names from my cousins the Flanders in my own genealogy. You may write me anytime to discuss our wonderful family history. I can help because I have so much of the northern New England history in my own family trees. Brian Michaud 227 Knights Pond Rd., South Berwick, Maine 03908 email: tazdevil1956@juno.com

Re: Pennyconquick" hence an old English version of the modern name for a Pennecook woman, IT FITS

And didn’t the tribe later settle in Ohio? I seem to recall that.

Jane Sandusky appears in my husband’s genealogy as his 8th great grandmother on his father’s side. Laura May Flanders was his grandmother. We recently had our dna done through National Geographic and no native dna showed up on either side of his sequencing. Have other relatives had dna testing?

His family also had a story about having native blood. But they thought it was on his mother’s side.

At 10 generations out the DNA test of use is mtDNA (daughter > daughter > ... Jane). Otherwise it is unlikely it would show up in a Flanders descendant due to "wash out."

The explanation of "washout" would explain the lack of native American dna showing up in Ancestry.com. My ancestor is Stephen Flanders. Periodically we have a darker skinned relative show up. My great great aunt was one of these people. This may be the only sign of Jane's possible relationship.