The Cherokee Indian Princess and the Hessian Mercenary
How many of you have been told you have an “Indian princess” in your ancestry? Our family legend is that our earliest Billow ancestor in America was a Hessian mercenary soldier and he married a Cherokee Indian princess.[1] But is it true? Nah! Our earliest Billow ancestor is Peter Billow (d. 1819), my fifth great-grandfather, […]
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