Yates and Cooper Cherokee-Choctaw-Sephardic GenealogiesUpdated November 17, 2010 |
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| UPDATE: We have moved to Phoenix, where my company DNA Consultants has undergone growth and introduced new autosomal DNA ancestry tests. On the research front, a Melungeon sample has explored the mixed ethnicity of that group, while a Cherokee study has suggested the Cherokee people include many mitochondrial (female) lineages from the Middle East such as haplogroups J, T, U and X. After the publication of When Scotland Was Jewish in 2007, co-author Elizabeth Hirschman and I now expect to have our book Star, Crescent and Cross: Jews and Muslims in Colonial America appear sometime next year (2011). I began by researching my father's family, the YATESES. I wrote The Bear Went Over the Mountain in 1995. "Yates" comes from Goetz, a contraction of the two Hebrew letters GZ standing for Ger Zedek whose meaning is "Righteous Convert." My "Deep South" Yateses are descended from John Yates/Yeatts, a saddler of Dan River, through William Yates, R.S. who settled in Heard County, Ga. These Yateses recently tested out as being French Jewish through DNA samples analyzed by Family Tree DNA in Houston. Elisabeth Yates, said to have been a fullblood Cherokee and my great-great-grandmother, was also mixed Sephardic, related to the family of Col. Will Thomas, founder of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Her parents were William Oliver Mitchell of South Carolina and Anna Thomas (born in Buncombe Co., N.C.). For the past ten years I have been researching my mother's side, the COOPERS. The earliest figure here is William Cooper, a North Carolina trader and scout for Daniel Boone who died in the defense of Nashville. He is the son of James Cooper of Southwark Parish, Surry Co., Va., whose father was probably Thomas Cooper, a London merchant of Portuguese extraction. William's wife was Malleah/Malilah Labon, a Choctaw halfbreed woman. William's son Henry Labon Cooper married Molly Houston, daughter of Robert Houston of Caswell Co., N.C. Their son Isaac Cooper, b. about 1770, married a daughter of Cherokee chief Black Fox (Enola, d. 1811). Another daughter, Mary Ann Black married William Davis, d. Jackson Co., Ala., 1848. The Coopers are considered to be Melungeon, Portuguese or Black Dutch, and are sometimes found listed as Free Persons of Color, Mulatto or Indian. Naming patterns, family traditions and DNA testing confirm they are Jewish. It is a similar story with the DAVISES, ADKINS, BLEVINS (all three Welsh-Jewish, the Blevinses Semitic), SIZEMORES (early mixed with Indian in the male line according to recent DNA testing but Jewish in faith in Colonial times), LACKEYS and SHANKLES (from Holland via Scotland). Names prominent in the reports on these pages are: ADAIR, ADKINS, BLACK, BLEVINS, BONDURANT-BUNDREN, COOPER, BURKE, DAVIS, DENNEY, GOBLE, FOSSETT/FAWCETT, GRABEN, MITCHELL, LACKEY, MUSE, SHANKLES, SIZEMORE, THOMAS, WEAVER, JORDAN, REDWINE, MCDONALD and YATES. Tribes represented are CHEROKEE, TIHANAMA, CHOCTAW, CHICKASAW, CREEK, YUCHI, EASTERN BLACKFOOT, NIPPISING, REDWINE, POWHATAN and SHAWNEE." |
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Donald N. Panther-Yates dpy@dnaconsultants.com |
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