Koonay ‘Ann’ Shikellamy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gibson_(American_soldier)

In 1758, at age seventeen, he participated in the Forbes Expedition under General John Forbes against the French at Fort Duquesne as part of the French and Indian War.[3] He remained at Fort Pitt after the war to engage in trade with Native Americans. He was captured by Lenape during Pontiac's Rebellion while trading in the west and was condemned to be burnt, but escaped death when he was adopted by an old Indian woman whose son had died in battle. He remained with the Lenape tribe for some time. Later Gibson was freed as a result of the Boquet Expedition.[4] After this Gibson returned to being an Indian trader. He built a house at Logstown which in 1772 was described as the "only house there" by the Reverend David McClure.[5]

Gibson married a relative of Mingo leader Logan and also learned to speak the Mingo language.[6] Gibson's wife and several other Mingo were murdered by a group of settlers in May 1774.[3][7] Gibson's daughter survived this incident, and was put into his care and he saw to her education.[8] In 1774, he participated in Dunmore's War and produced a written translation of Logan's famous speech suing for peace: "I appeal to any white man to say if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not meat."[9]

After completing his term in government, at age seventy-six Gibson and his wife Ann returned to private life, briefly remaining in Vincennes. He returned to live with his daughter and son-in-law, George Wallace, in Braddock's Field near Pittsburg, where he died on April 10, 1822, at age eighty-two, having suffered two years from an "incurable cataract".[24] Gibson County, Indiana, was named in his honor.[23]

Extracted from “THE GREAT LOVE STORY OF ANN AND JOHN GIBSON”
https://www.familysearch.org/memories/memory/1026823

The great chief's daughter, Ann, and the white trader, John fell in love and married. They had three children with a fourth on the way. Their first son they named Nicholas, second came John Jr., and they named their daughter Diana Ball. They were well on their way to a happily-ever-after life. …

On 30 April 1773, near the Indian settlement on Yellow Creek, Ann Koonay, her year old daughter, a brother, a nephew, her sister-in-law, and a few other Indians to the number of eight or ten, crossed the river to Baker’s trading post. On command, and without warning, the men stormed out of the back room and began their brutal murders. … They did spare one Indian there that day, John Gibson’s year old daughter Diana.

… When Chief Logan learned of the atrocities, he did something he had never before done in his entire life, he went on the warpath, and turned Cresap's private little war into the much longer, larger, and bloodier Lord Dunmore's War. The story’s told that when John Gibson learned of those white men’s savagery he went looking for Michael Cresap, and when he caught up with him he did not kill him, but rather tried to arrest him, which sent Cresap skedaddling. …

… little Diana Ball is your 5th Great Grandmother, and you are Colonel John and Ann Koonay Gibson's living legacy to the world.

A more scholarly version of these historic events can be found in the files of James Gibson and Chief John Logan.

GEDCOM Note

HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS. 149 Of these fragments, the first was an incidental contribution made by Mr. Wm. Darlington, whose early years were connected with the First Church**, arid whose notes on its earliest history, as given in the Memorial (Centenary) Volume of Western Presbyterianism, are of such value. Alluding to a certain ·charge concerning the first pastor's*** irregular administration of baptism, which was prominent in the trial before Presbytery,' Mr. Darlington says: "General Gibson's child, referred to therein, I believe was his Indian child-Polly Gibson, well known in Pittsburgh. Her father had her well taken care of and respectably reared. The late General William Robinson told me that he 'knew her very well. It is interesting to remember the fact that this child was,the only survivor of the infamous massacre of the celebrated Chief Logan's family, in April, 1774, on the Ohio, near Yellow Creek, (below Wellsville.) Gibson's Indian wife was Logan's sister, who was shot through the head by a white savage, at a few feet's distance. The child at her bosom fell, and was the only one rescued in the canoe. This murder was the main cause of the bloody Indian war, known .as Dunmore's or Cresap's war. The celebrated speech of Logan, about which there has been so much controversy as to its genuineness, ·was delivered to this same General John Gibson. He had lived for many years among the Indians, as a trader, was Colonel of a regiment during the Revolution, after its close resided in Pittsburgh, was an' Associate Judge of the Courts of this county, and died at the house of his son-in-law, Geo. Wallace, at Braddock's Fields, in 1824 .. He was uncle to the late Chief Justice Gibson.

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According to Moravian missionary records, Eadem, a daughter of Shickellamy was given beans and corn to save her from starvation. 1749 is when this happened.

Did John Gibson marry one Shickellamy daughter, or two? Were Ann and Betty Shickellamy the same?!
October 3rd, 2010

About Ann and Betty Shickellamy: there is some evidence that Colonel Gibson married Ann Shickellamy, and then her sister Betty after her death. Or they may be the same person.

On page 27 of "That Dark and Bloody River," author Allen Eckert says Talgayeeta (Chief Shickellamy) moved with his family to a fine bubbling spring up on a terrace well above the Ohio River, just above the mouth of the Beaver River and 25 miles below Pittsburgh. "It was here that Talgayetta and his family met the trader John Gibson. Very soon Gibson and Konnay (Betty) fell in love and were married."

Cayuga/Turtle Clan

discoverkingsport.com/h-John-Roberts-Chief-Logan.pdf

"The Yellow Creek Massacre was a brutal killing of several Mingo Indians by Virginia frontiersmen on April 30, 1774. The atrocity occurred at Yellow Creek on the upper Ohio River in the Ohio Country — now Yellow Creek Township, Columbiana County, Ohio — and was the single most important incident contributing to the outbreak of Lord Dunmore’s War (May-October 1774). It was carried out by a group led by Jacob and Daniel Greathouse. The perpetrators were never brought to justice.

This incident was all the worse because Mingo leader Logan was a good friend of the English-speaking settlers in the region. Logan was away on a hunt but his wife Mellana, his brother Taylaynee (called John Petty by many English speakers), Taylaynee’s son Molnah and his Logan’s and Taylaynee’s sister Koonay were among the slain. Koonay was also the wife of John Gibson a prominent trader between the English and various Native American groups who at the time of the massacre was on a trading expedition to the Shawnee."
https://nativeheritageproject.com/2014/01/26/logans-lament/

GEDCOM Note

Shawnee Heritage By Don Greene, Noel Schutz Page 107

Gibson, John (I) aka Horsehead - adopted-white- (Kishpoko-Seneca) born 1740 PA-died 1822­ adopted 1763-returned to whites 1764, son of George GibsonJ04 & Elizabeth de Vinez. adopted son of Widow Shawnee, translator/scout/spy-with U.S. Army-Revolution, trader, Indian Agent, Gen, of PA Militia. delegate to PA Constitutional Convention, Commander Ft. Pitt 81-81, Acting Governor ofI ndiana Territory/1800-13, namesake of Gibson Co. IN, AlleghenyC<>, PA Judge.

husband 1st by 1770 OH of Kooney Shikellimus /50-Seneca-(sister of Chief Logan), 2nd 1775 PA of Mary Brent/60-1/2 Pekowi-Metis, 3rd about 1780 PA of Ann Mingo/65-Kishpoko. ..........................................................

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schickellamy-1

Anne "Koona Shekellamy" is of Cayuga origin. She is the sister of Chief Logan and the wife of Col. John Gibson. She was killed at the Yellow Creek Massacre. Possibly two children escaped. Ncholas Gibson is her born 1765. Nicholas was taken by the Indians and brought up until family came and brought him back. One story has him being bought for 2 barrels of whisky. Initially he was resistant to wearing Whiteman's clothes and tore them off. He apparently blended with his new family, married, had numerous children one of which is William Henry Gibson and grandfather of mine. I have been reading up on Anne Gibson.

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References

1. Charles W. Hanko. The Life of John Gibson: Soldier, Patriot, Statesman (Dayton Beach, Florida: College Publishing Company, 1955) < GoogleBooks >
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Creek_massacre The only member of the first group who was not killed was Koonay's two-month-old daughter.[8] The child was eventually returned to the care of her father, John Gibson, after she had for a time been in the care of William Crawford.[10]
   1. )8.Williams, Glenn F. (2017). Dunmore's War (Kindle ed.). Pennsylvania: Westholme Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59416-618-1. p. 72.
   2. 10.Calloway, Colin G. (2018). The Indian World of George Washington. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190652166. LCCN 2017028686. p. 208.
3. http://www.touringohio.com/history/yellow-creek-massacre.html Logan?s friendly relations with white settlers changed with the Yellow Creek Massacre of 30 April 1774. A group of Virginia frontiersmen led by Daniel Greathouse murdered a number of Mingos, among them Logan’s brother, (commonly known as John Petty), and at least two other close female relatives, one of them pregnant and caring for her infant daughter. Her children were fathered by John Gibson a prominent trader in the region. … These Mingo had been living near the mouth of Yellow Creek, and had been lured to the cabin of Joshua Baker, a settler and rum trader who lived across the Ohio River from their village. The Natives in Baker’s cabin were all murdered, except for the infant child, who was spared with the intention of giving her to her father.
4. WikiTree contributors, "Ann Schickellamy (1741-abt.1774)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schickellamy-1 : accessed 18 November 2024).
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikellamy