Jennie Taylor

Curator Note: other than being documented as wife of Youngwolf Conrad, nothing is known of Jennie Taylor

• Family search without sources has her born in Washington County, TN
• Possibly AKA Na Ye Hi Wolf Conrad

See Discussion tab 6/26/2023 as follows…
“ Youngwolf's wife was not named in the Moravian Journals. They had a daughter who was about 9 in 1815 (Youngwolf died of consumption 1814-1815), so that wife must have been born no later than 1790. Starr's book says she was named Jennie Taylor.

Nobody was born in Cherokee, Washington County, TN, no such place. Cherokee people were born in the Cherokee Nation. That's one of those repeated errors from place name dropdowns at FamilySearch and Ancestry (like all the people who are born in "Y" France).

Zero suggestion anywhere that Youngwolf's wife was also called Nannie, Nancy, or Nan-ye-hi (a name which does not exist in any early records, it's a modern attempt at reverse transliteration)

Whether there was a different woman called Nannie or Nan-ye-hi Conrad, sister of Gunrod is speculative. The only recorded mention of Nathan Hicks wife called her "Peg" (although she still could have been Gunrod's sister).

Starr also said that a Scots woman named Jennie Taylor came to America with a son Charles and that she later married Johann Conrad. I think this was one of Starr's major screw-ups. No one in my family line (descended from Charles Taylor) has ever mentioned any connection to the Hicks family. Charles Taylor's descendants all lived in what is now Tennessee, the Hicks all lived near the Moravians in Georgia. Starr also called Gunrod Conrad "Hamilton" and no one has ever managed to explain that.”

More from Kathryn (Parks) Forbes:
Who was Jennie Ani-wa-ya?

1) Was she the daughter of Oconostota? No
2) Was she the wife of William Hicks? No
3) Was she the wife of Johann Conrad? Yes.
4) Was she the mother of Charles and Thomas Fox Taylor? Maybe

1) Oconostota had only one documented child, his son Tukeesee (The Terrapin)

2) Starr says “William Hicks was the son of Nathan Hicks, a white man, and a full blood woman of the Wolf clan. He was a younger brother of Charles R. Hicks ….” [1] William had two wives, Lydia Halfbreed and Sallie Foreman. [2] Starr incorrectly lists Lydia as the wife of Charles Hicks, but the Moravian journals and other records make it clear that Lydia was William’s wife.

3) Emmet Starr recorded an erroneous story that Johann Conrad was married to an English woman named Jennie Taylor, that she had a son named Charles Taylor and together they had a son named Hamilton Conrad. Other records make it clear that this was at best a very garbled family story. Starr also said "Hamilton" married a Cherokee woman named “Onai”. [3] According to the Moravian Journals, 3/25/1810, “Among others there was a half-German Cherokee here…. His father, whose name was John Gunrod according to his pronounciation [presumably Johannes Conrad], is supposed to have been a rather well-to-do Indian trader and was killed by Indians in a war when he [the son, Gunrod] was only 3-4 years old.” [4] There is no mention of the mother.

Johann and “Jennie” were the parents of “Gunrod”, whose wife may have been the woman named “Arle Gunrod” on the 1851 Drennan Roll. James Hicks speculates that they also were the parents of a woman named “Nan ye hi”, the mother of Charles and William Hicks. He bases this on a comment in the Moravian Diaries that Gunrod left his family to live with the family of Charles Hicks, ‘a close relative.’ Charles Hicks’ wife was named Nan-ye-hi (Nancy) Broom, the daughter of Chief Broom of Broomtown and his wife possibly the woman named Ajosta. The Moravian record from April 5, 1822, says, "Ajosta, the mother of our student Nancy, who ardently wishes to be baptized, was this day declared a candidate for holy baptism."[5] [This may have been a different Nancy from Nancy "Broom" Hicks)

Gunrod was the father of five children, only one of whom used the surname ‘Conrad’. That son, Terrapinhead Conrad, Conrad-2585 had a daughter named Jennie. Son Young Wolf Conrad-2582 also married a woman named “Jennie”.

4) If she was the mother of Thomas Taylor, she could not be of the Wolf Clan since Thomas’ wife, Jennie Walker, (granddaughter of Nancy Ward) was of the Wolf Clan. (Cherokee could not marry within the same clan.) Charles TaylorTaylor-26455 was born about 1730. According to Starr he was born in England and brought to America by his mother. He claimed to be related to the prominent Fox family of England.[6] Charles received a commission as an Ensign in one of the Independent Companies of the southern colonies (these were part of the British army) in 1754 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1756 [7] He was stationed at (and briefly in charge of) Fort Prince George and while in the Cherokee Nation he fathered two sons with a Cherokee woman. As far as is known, he never married or had other children. He died on July 15, 1774, in South Carolina, at the age of 44. [8]

"Charles Thomas Taylor came into the C[herokee] Nation a Captain in a Brittish Regiment & married a Cherokee woman by whom he had a son named Thomas. Thomas married a Cherokee woman by whom he had three children; Richard, Fox, & Susan, the first named Taylor was a natural son of the Fox family in England, on that account the son of Thomas was called Fox & they have ever since continued to say that they by blood are allied to the late Charles Fox. Thomas had a brother named Charles who died in the west Indies. The simple narative from the widow of Thomas [NOTE: this would be Jennie Walker] who is still living bears all the marks of truth. It will be observed that the first mentioned Taylor had a brother named Charles & a son also named Charles so that there were three heirs of that name including the first-mentioned, that bore the name of Charles & the son of the first named his son by the Cherokee woman Fox [knowing?] at the time that he named him after his great grandfather in England. November 14, 1811

[marginal notation:] The first Charles Taylor died in Charles Town, SoCarolina” [9]
Please note that there is limited information on these early Cherokee families, names were reused, and both Cherokee women and white men had children with multiple partners. Additional work is needed on the profiles for many of the individuals named here.

Sources

1. ↑ Baker, Jack D. and Hampton, David K. Old Cherokee Famlies: Notes of Dr. Emmet Starr. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, 1988. Vol. 1, p. 119
2. ↑ Crews and Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK, 2013. Vol. 5, p.2684.
3. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK, 1993 pp. 474-475
4. ↑ Crews and Starbuck, eds. Vol. 3, pp. 1375-76
5. ↑ Missionary Herald for the year 1824. Vol XX. Published at the expense of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
6. ↑ Starr, pp. 474-475
7. ↑ Clark, Murtie J. Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774; Georgia Militia. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999.
8. ↑ "Death Notices from the South Carolina & American General Gazette," in South Carolina Historical Magazine, ed. Mabel Louise Webber. South Carolina Historical Society, Baltimore MD, 1916, Vol. 17 p. 88
9. ↑ RG75, Records of the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee, 1798-1838 (correspondence, 1811-1813) Microfilm #M208, Roll 6

Source: Kathie (Parks) Forbes @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Who_was_Jennie_%27Ani-waya%27_C...

Biography

Jennie Taylor. Given Name: Jennie. Surname: Taylor. [1] Conard (conrad). Given Name: Jennie. Surname: Conard (conrad). [2] Conrad. Given Name: Jennie. Surname: Conrad. [3] Found multiple versions of name. Using Jennie Taylor.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S42 259 Certainty: 0
2. ↑ Source: #S42 259 Certainty: 0
3. ↑ Source: #S48 426 Certainty: 0

• Source: S42 Media: Book (Authored) Genealogy of Old and New Cherokee Indian Families by George Morrison Bell. 1972 lc#78-189676 copy at Muskogee , OK pub.lib. Publication: (Barlesville, OK: , 1972). Note: Source Recorder Type: Other Media Type: Other Source Fidelity: Other Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S48 Media: Book (Authored) Old Cherokee Families Old Families and their Genealogy Reprinted from "History of the Cherokee Indians and their Legends and folk lore by Emmet Starr Compiled by J J Hill Publication: (Norman: Univ of OK, 1968). Note: Source Recorder Type: Other Media Type: Other Source Fidelity: Other Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-44628
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YOUNGWOLF CONRAD (GUNROD5, JENNIE4ANI'-WA'YA, OCONOSTOTA3, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born Abt. 1786, and died 1814.
He married (1) JENNIE TAYLOR. She was born Abt. 1790.

• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
• Cause of Death: Consumption
• Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Onai)

Children of YOUNGWOLF CONRAD and JENNIE TAYLOR are:

	i.	 	BARRY7, b. Abt. 1804; Adopted child.

	More About BARRY:

• Blood: Non-Cherokee
• Note: December 12, 1815, Spring Place Journals; "white young man who had been adopted as a child by Young Wolf"

478. ii. NANNIE WOLF, b. Abt. 1806; d. 1832.
479. iii. MARGARET WOLF, b. February 08, 1808; d. April 14, 1850.
480. iv. ANNIE WOLF, b. 1810, Georgia.
481. v. DENNIS WOLF, b. 1812.

Child of YOUNGWOLF CONRAD is:
482. vi. SUSIE NI-GU-DA-YI7 WOLF, b. Abt. 1806.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Amatoya Moytoy” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0021...
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Conrad.
11 Onai. Hamilton Conrad.
1112 Rattling-gourd Conrad. Mary Toney.
2 Hair Conrad. Ollie Candy and Melvina McGee.
OK 3 Youngwolf Conrad. Jennie Taylor.
4 Quatie Conrad. Alexander Brown, Archibald Fields and John Benge.

Source: Starr, Emmett. “History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folklore.” Warden Company, 1922.