Re: Congrove Features
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Re: Congrove Features
8/23/98
Interesting discussion about indian and black mixing of races....I found a Charles Congrove that was listed in a petion to get grant on the presidential ballot from Michigan in the 1870's. He was a black man. I think the indian influence goes back to the 17th century. I found a Congreve child and two sisters in wilderness Cherry Valley New York Colony that had no parents a man named Lindsay recorded the three children. A Charles Congreve, was in the Colony purchasing land that Westpoint would be built on and some property on Long Island. I found a Charles Congreve in England that married a daughter to a Lindsay family member. My theory is that Charles had a relationship with an Indain woman in the wilderness NY. 1670's and left the children with the family that would found a town there in the 1730's. The Duke of York required registering all births and marriages. This why we have a record at all....If the indian he was involved with was there in Cherry Valley she was a Mohawk tribe...A characteristic is short legs... Many Mohawks worked in high iron work like my dad. THe are quite agile and the short legs are quite desirable in that kind of work. Do we have short legs and long torso's in other branches of the family? On my Sanford side I am told we have a full blooded Pawnee great grandmother. So I guess I better start going to POW WOW's.
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