Thomas Soward

Notes:

Married to the daughter of Chief Cornstalk and niece of Tecumseh of the Shawnee nation, most probably this connection to the Greater Huron Nations and the Algonquin Indian tribes saved the family and helped them to return Virginia by 1775 to 1777. Thomas Soward was familiar with the Turkey Cove area in the Powell Valley, in what is now Scott County VA, as Thomas Berry, William McGaughy, and he went there to hunt buffalo in 1770 or 1771.

http://vagenweb.org/scott/TurkeyCoveMA.html

Thomas married Esther Cutewah Cornstalk 1768. Esther (daughter of Hokoleskwa Peter Cornstalk and Helizikinopo) was born 1751, Shawnee Nation, OH; died Aft 1786. [Group Sheet]

1. Griffin Soward was born 1773.
2. Thomas Soward, Jr. was born 1775.
3. Robert Soward was born 1780.
4. Esther Soward was born 1781.
5. Jacob Soward was born 1783.
6. John B. Soward was born 1784.
7. Rosannah Sowards was born 1786; died 1831.
8. Diannah Soward was born 1786.
9. Rebecca Soward was born 1790.
10. George Soward was born 1792.