Carolyn...Sken:noh!...I am a Seneca but am looking for confirmation about the following people within my family whom we strongly suspect as of Native ancestry. Barnet Taylor;B: 1785 in Mercer County, Pennnsylvania, close to the town of Shenango, Pennsylvania m Rebbeca, no last name, b:1789. David Davis b: 1793, Fayette County, Penn. Is the surname of Feather also Haudenosaunee by chance, as we do have a Martha or Mary Feather who married David Taylor and she too was from Mercer County, Penn; Sandy Creek to be exact, again very close to the town Shenango(why does that town name ring a bell?) William Hill b: Tompkins County, NY, father of Lavinia M Hill, who married Burton F. Kellogg and she was born in 1804, but we have no birthdate for him, nor do we have a a birthplace. He married Eliza Sackett, born in Stephentown, NY, no birthdate or deathdate...We have a Uriah Hill who married a Mary Root...is that a Native surname? in fact all of these are deadends in my family, but all, with the exception of Uri Hill and Mary Root, who were from Litchfield, Conn., were born in the area of where the Seneca/Mingo were living, i.e. near the border of Ohio/W. Virginia, as well as the Lenni Lenape... i look forward to hearing any insights, or info you may be able to provide...nia:wen...Tim(bf of Teresa McCall

Almost all of those surnames can be found on Indian rolls, but the only one that includes the Haudenosaunee is HILL. The others are all from tribes that are not near Pennsylvania, with the exception of the surname ROOT which is found among the Ojibwe, known in Canada as the Cree.

The time period you are giving me is way too early for most known rolls of the Haudenosaunee.You are going to need to work backwards, through their great-grandchildren, grandchildren, children (just as you would for any ordinary genealogical research) to see if you can find a family group with the right names at the right ages on one of the rolls.

Microfilm at NARA that covers them includes:

SENECA

• 1877-1878 Census roll. 7RA78, roll 1.
• 1885-1939 Census rolls. M595, rolls 411-416, 488-489.
• Circa 1887 Allotments. 7RA26 1, rolls 1-2.
• 1890-1893 Tribal election minute book. 7RA150, roll 3.
• Circa 1900 Register of Indian families. 7RA150, roll 1. 1910-1911 Quapaw Agency
• Competency Commission reports. 7RA36, roll 1.
• 1911-1936 Record of heirship. 7RA150, roll 2.
• 1931-1934 Supplemental census rolls. 7RA150, roll 1.

Ancestry.com also has U.S. Indian Census Schedules, 1885-1940, but again, you'll need to have your family groups in front of you with names and birthdates in order to see if they are on the schedules.

Carolyne

Well i know that at Six Nations Reserve there are families with the Davis and Taylor surnames, but I'm not sure if those mentioned in my family tree are related to them. I do know that the area in which they were born; Fayette and Mercer counties in Pennsylvnia. The Taylors lived in Mercer; the area of the Seneca/Mingos, and the Davis's lived in Fayette county, where some of the Lenni Lenape had migrated to after being forced out of the Delaware Valley. Could you please list which Nations have the Taylor and Davis surnames?

Only Hill is related in any way to the Haudenosaunee. The others are Plains Indians --- Blackfoot, Sioux, etc.

P.S.

Almost every Indian tribe or nation has a Taylor and/or a Davis. You have to focus on the areas where your families lived and associated tribes.