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In reply to the discussion: I got back into gen. [View all]

wnylib

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10. One thing you might be able to contribute
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 01:38 PM
Sep 2020

to your husband's family information is that Alliquippa was not a princess. Some British records from her time period call her Queen Alliquippa, but that was the British reference to her, based on their perspective of leadership and women.

Alliquippa was Seneca. Her name is Seneca. The Seneca people did not have kings, queens, princesses, or princes. They had people who ruled towns, usually men, but sometimes women. They had elite families within their social structure, but did not have the titles or hereditary positions of European society.

But if you prefer to leave that research to your husband's family, they will eventually learn for themselves what I just said if they ever get to the point of contacting the Seneca people in their research.

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