My Paternal Grandmother's Descent from Lassiter and Riddick Families in Connection to Indigenous American Ancestry
I think that I might have some clues about my Indigenous American paternal ancestry.
My 23andme Chromosome painting shows that I have three Indigenous American segments on my paternal Chromosomes 5, 6, and 9 which total 0.7%. I also have Indigenous American segments on my maternal chromosomes and X Chromosome which total 1%, and I know that those are Taino from my maternal grandfather's Puerto Rican maternal grandfather Jose Juan Ocasio-Afanador who was also known Joseph John Ocacio. My AncestryDNA's Chromosome Painting shows these segments too. The longest of all my Indigenous American segments is the one on Chromosome 9.
I found only African Americans that match me on my Indigenous American Chromosome 9 segment, and some of them have no Louisianan ancestry. Therefore, the Indigenous American paternal Chromosome 9 segment is from an Indigenous American outside of Louisiana. My father's maternal halfsister/my Aunt Carrie and my paternal half brother McLain match me on my Indigenous American Chromosome 6 segment. That indicates my Indigenous American Chromosome 6 segment came from my paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines. Aunt Carrie's AncestryDNA Chromosome Painting shows that she has the Indigenous American segment in the same location on Chromosome 6 and has another on Chromosome 1 and at the beginning of Chromosome 9 Mclain's 23andme Chromosome Painting shows that he has Indigenous American segment in the same location on Chromosome 6 as I do, and it is his only Indigenous American segment. Grandma Mary's maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother Anastasia Bourgeois was a 3/4 Acadian born in Plattenville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. She had no Indigenous American ancestry.
Aunt Carrie's maternal matches
C Lassiter - descendant of Timothy Lassiter born in 1756 in Chowan County, North Carolina and died in 1791 in Gates County, North Carolina.
J Warren - descendant of Judith Lassiter born in 1747 in Chowan County, North Carolina and died in 1795 in Bertie County, North Carolina
fwopoc - descendant of Job Riddick b. 1738 in Chowan County, North Carolina and Prudence Lassiter b. 1742 in Chowan County, North Carolina and descendant of Lemuel Riddick b. 1690 in Nansemond County, Virginia
F. Hinton - descendant of Job Riddick b. 1738 in Chowan County, North Carolina and Prudence Lassiter b. 1742 in Chowan County, North Carolina
Timothy, Judith, and Prudence were grandchildren of George Lassiter (b. 1670 in Nansemond County, Virginia d. 1764 in Chowan County, North Carolina) and Anne Riddick (b. 1675 in Nansemond County, Virginia d. 1707 in Chowan County, North Carolina)
J. Tanner- a descendant of Lemuel Riddick b. 1690 in Nansemond County, Virginia
She's a descendant of Cyprian Cross and Christian Riddick. Cyprian was a brother of Grandma Mary's 3rd Great Grandfather Elisha Cross, and they were the sons of John Carr Cross and his wife Susannah. Cristian Riddick was a granddaughter of Lemuel Riddick b. 1690 in Nansemond County Virginia.
J. Butler - a descendant of Tom Riddick b. 1807 in Nansemond County, Virginia and Sophia Cross b. 1825 in Gates County, North Carolina
bunchdonny - descendant of Gilley Lassiter b. 1730 in Gates County, North Carolina
J.M who is a descendant of Nellie Lassiter b. 1840 in Tennessee
J.M's son or nephew R. Greene - descendant of Nellie Lassiter b. 1840 in Tennessee
S Philips - a descendant of Lucy Lassiter b. 1832 in Georgia
D. Kennedy - a descendant of Dewie Lassiter b. 1909 in Pennsylvania
F. Lassiter Wilson-Copeland - private tree
cdsNorman16 - a descendant of George B. Riddick b. 1897 in Virginia
B.J. - a descendant of John W. Riddick b. 1847 in North Carolina
drJ3551 - a descendant of Nathan Riddick
R. Norfleet - a descendant of Albert Riddick b. 1795 in Gates County, North Carolina
D. Jackson - a great grandson of Arthur Riddick
my paternal AncestryDNA matches
W. Hanson - a descendant of William Lassiter b. 1865 in North Carolina.....one of the African Americans that matches me on my Indigenous segment on paternal Chromosome 9 and has no Louisianan ancestry Chromosome 9 90223085-109676893 20.6 cM match me on my Indigenous Chromosome 9 segment .....he is one of my GEDmatch matches
V. Westbrook - a descendant of William Moses Lassiter b. 1747, grandson of George Lassiter (b. 1670 in Nansemond County, Virginia d. 1764 in Chowan County, North Carolina) and Anne Riddick (b. 1675 in Nansemond County, Virginia d. 1707 in Chowan County, North Carolina)
jbreedlove79 - a descendant of Job Riddick b. 1738 in Chowan County, North Carolina and Prudence Lassiter b. 1742 in Chowan County, North Carolina, Prudence was granddaughter of George Lassiter and Anne Riddick
L. Archer - a descendant of Shelton Lassiter b. 1894 in Gates County, North Carolina
M. Lassiter - a descendant of Frank Lassiter b. 1858 in North Carolina
cdsNorman16 - a descendant of George B. Riddick b. 1897 in Virginia (also Aunt Carrie's)
J. Butler - a descendant of Tom Riddick b. 1807 in Nansemond County, Virginia and Sophia Cross b. 1825 in Gates County, North Carolina (also Aunt Carrie's)
A. Carter - a descendant of Mary Louisa Riddick b. 1815 in Gates County, North Carolina
D. McCoy - a descendant of Joseph Riddick b. 1787 in Gates County, North Carolina
K. Moody - a descendant of Pearl Riddick b. 1886 in Nansemond, Virginia
B. Mosley - a descendant of Willis Cross 1792 -1850 in Gates County, NC and Amelia Riddick b. 1790 - 1840 in Gates County, North Carolina, a descendant of Miles Howell b. 1804 in Nansemond County, Virginia and d. 1839 in Gates County, North Carolina and Mary Polly Riddick b. 1795-d. 1839 in Gates County, North Carolina.
She and I are 6th Cousins. My paternal 4th Great Grandfather Benjamin Cross and her maternal 4th Great Grandmother Nancy Cross were siblings. Their parents were Elisha Cross (son of John Cross and Susannah) and Priscilla Bethea (daughter of Tristram Bethea and Ann Goodman).
She matches my European segment at the beginning of my paternal Chromosome 1.
Aunt Carrie's MyHeritage matches
J. Tanner (also an AncestryDNA match) - a descendant of Lemuel Riddick b. 1690 in Nansemond County, Virginia
She's a descendant of Cyprian Cross and Christian Riddick. Cyprian was a brother of Grandma Mary's 3rd Great Grandfather Elisha Cross, and they were the sons of John Carr Cross and his wife Susannah. Cristian Riddick was a granddaughter of Lemuel Riddick b. 1690 in Nansemond County Virginia. Chromosome 14 25702517 – 34417716 14 cM
M. Cromwell (also an AncestryDNA match) - descendant of Lemuel Riddick b. 1690 in Nansemond County, Virginia Chromosome 4 133889230 – 145076356 11.1 cM
J. Cromwell (also an Ancestry DNA match) - descendant of Lemuel Riddick b. 1690 in Nansemond, M. Cromwell's son Chromosome 4 133889230 – 145076356 11.1 cM , Chromosome 14 32460484 – 34586270 6.5 cM
J. Smith - a twice descendant of Jacob Riddick b. 1745 - d. 1797 in Perquimans, North Carolina Chromosome 14 20983113 – 24215618 10.5 cM
J. Jeter descendant of James Jordan Lassiter Jr. b. 1737 , grandson of George Lassiter (b. 1670 in Nansemond County, Virginia d. 1764 in Chowan County, North Carolina) and Jane Sherard Chromosome 6 158498555 – 164402861 9.2 cM
K. Windham descendant of Nancy Ann Lassiter b. 1851 in Georgia Chromosome 13 35868397 – 42158778 9.1 cM
My FamilyTreeDNA paternal matches
W. Lassiter Chromosome 6 136223236 - 144140385 on my Indigenous American segment
My 23andme paternal matches
G. Baxter descends from a Riddick family and has roots in North Carolina.....He was one of the African Americans that match me on my Indigenous paternal Chromosome 9 and has no Louisianan Ancestry........Chromosome 9 101128916 - 109153027 on my Indigenous American segment
George Lassiter (b. 1670 in Nansemond County, Virginia d. 1764 in Chowan County, North Carolina) was the son of Robert Lassiter (b. 1635 in Nansemond County, Virginia and d. 1689 in Chowan County, North Carolina) and Prudence Eason of the Nottoway Indigenous American people (1637-1675 in Nansemond County, Virginia)
I found the following:
Janet Lassiter mentions complications with Robert Lassiter when it comes to information based on family/individual records and family trees on Ancestry.com. Based on a friend's research, Robert Lassiter was the son of Thomas George Lassiter. According to this source, Robert was born in 1635 in New Kent, Nansemond, VA, and was married to Prudence Eason of Nottoway, her father being Guy Eason and her mother being Fredia of the Cheroenhaka. While some sources1, 2, 3, 4 list Robert as a having wife named Prudance Eason (ca. 1637-1675), speculated to be of the Cherokee of the Nottoway, my DNA results do not overtly support a Native American ancestor though this does not fully rule out the possibility since it was pretty far back and may not be traceable. If Prudence Eason was of the Cherokee, she would have been only half Native American and her children even less so which might not show in DNA at the level of testing. They had a number of children, among them Thomas Lassiter, Janet's 7th great grandfather. The information indicates both Thomas and his brother George (my ancestor shown below) born on June 2, 1670; however, given a different source having George's birth year listed as 1668, they may have not been twins. She does have clear records going back to the first US census done in 1790, wills in 1792 for Joseph L Lassiter as well as one for his son Charles Lassiter in 1803. These are all from NC. It looks like sons of Robert Lassiter migrated to NC in the 1700s as it shows births in Nansemond, VA but deaths in NC.
http://family.beacondeacon.com/lassiter.htm
Nottoway people
 Nottoway River in historic Nottoway territory | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Virginia | |
| Languages | |
| English, Nottoway (historical) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Nansemond, Weyanock,[1] Meherrin, Tuscarora |
The Nottoway are an Iroquoian Native American tribe in Virginia. The Nottoway spoke a Nottoway language in the Iroquoian language family.
Names[edit]
The term Nottoway may derive from Nadawa or Nadowessioux (widely translated as "poisonous snake"), an Algonquian-language term.
Frank Siebert suggested that the term natowewa stems from Proto-Algonquian *na:tawe:wa and refers to the Massasauga, a pit viper of the Great Lakes region. The extension of the meaning as "Iroquoian speakers" is secondary.[citation needed] In Algonquian languages beyond the geographical range of the viper (i.e. Cree–Innu–Naskapi and Eastern Algonquian), the term's primary reference continues to focus on *na:t- 'close upon, mover towards, go after, seek out, fetch' and *-awe: 'condition of heat, state of warmth,' but no longer refers to the viper.[citation needed]
A potential etymology in Virginia of *na:tawe:wa (Nottoway) refers to *na:t- 'seeker' + -awe: 'fur,'[2] or literally 'traders'[3] The earliest colonial Virginia reference to "Nottoway" also frames Algonquian/Iroquoian exchanges in terms of trade: roanoke (shell beads) for skins (deer and otter).[4]
The Algonquian speakers also referred to the Nottoway, Meherrin and Tuscarora people (also of the Iroquoian-language family) as Mangoak or Mangoags, a term which English colonists used in their records from 1584 to 1650. This term, Mengwe or Mingwe, was used by the Dutch and applied to the Iroquoian Susquehannock ("White Minquas") and Erie people ("Black Minquas").[citation needed]
The name Cheroenhaka is an autonym for Nottoway people.[5] The meaning of the name Cheroenhaka (in Tuscarora: Čiruʼęhá·ka·ʼ[6]) is uncertain. (It has been spelled in various ways: Cherohakah, Cheroohoka or Tcherohaka.) The linguist Blair A. Rudes analyzed the second element as -hakaʼ meaning "one or people who is/are characterized in a certain way." He conjectured that the first element of the name was related to the Tuscarora term čárhuʼ (meaning "tobacco", as both tribes used this product in ceremonies).[7] The term has also been interpreted as "People at the Fork of the Stream".[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottoway_people
Grandma Mary's maternal grandfather's English American paternal grandfather Benjamin Cross had roots in Gates County, Chowan County, and Nansemond County. I don't think he was a descendant of the Lassiter and Riddick families. I think that the families were ancestors of one of Grandma Mary's enslaved African American great grandparents. Two of her great grandparents were born in Virginia. Her paternal grandfather's father Reuben Gaines and maternal grandfather's mother Laura Woods were born in Virginia. One of her maternal grandmother's parents may have been born in Virginia.
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