Isham FRANKLIN Thomas Jefferson FRANKLIN Nancy Unknown FRANKLIN Mini tree diagram

Ephriam FRANKLIN1,2,1

about 1700 - UNKNOWN

Life History

about 1700

Born

about 1720

Birth of son Isham FRANKLIN.1

about 1730

Birth of daughter Thomas Jefferson FRANKLIN

UNKNOWN

Death of Nancy Unknown FRANKLIN

UNKNOWN

Death of son Isham FRANKLIN

UNKNOWN

Died

Other facts

 

Married Nancy Unknown FRANKLIN

Notes

  • "Surnames Franklin. Sizemore, Dees.  My ggreatgrandfather was brother to Esom Franklin, son of Ephriam and Nancy Franklin"
    --  Barbara Cook, Comment on an Ancestry Discussion Group, 26 January 2012

    "You do know Gardner Green owned land next to Isshom [Isham or Issom] Franklin, found on the Internet one time but can't find it now.  Did I tell you on my kin's Guion Miller application, she listed my Thomas Franklin born around 1780 as dark complected, coarse black hair.  She is the only one that had seen Thomas Jefferson Franklin.  I believe Ephriam [sic] Franklin and Nancy were his parents.  I have Ephriam Franklin's estate papers, and he names Thomas Bartley Henry and James Sizemore as heirs.  James was married to Patience Franklin."
    -- Barbara Cook, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 4 February 2012

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    I think eventually it wasn't accepted so much that the whites live amongst the Indians and the half breeds and I believe they were forced south of the Black River Swamp.  And I think they were eventually forced off their land even more East into Halifax County Va.

    This is where we find people on the tax rolls listed as Indian such as William Riddell.   He's enumerated right next to John Green and Gardner Green.  The Sizemores also had legal issues with the government for adultery.  My theory is they didn't get married in the eyes of the Christian Church but in their own native traditions.  Prior to the Revolutionary War many of the Sizemores and Greens were losing their land and being hung.

    One Thomas Green was hauled away for execution.  Supposedly Tory Ned Sizemore was also hung.  Oral tradition states that his name was Chief Golden Hawk.  Being hung and forced off their land, the Greens and Sizemores fled South, first into the muddy water region of North Carolina.  A few years later they're found in the 96th district of South Carolina, Cherokee territory.

    This is where I believe Gardner Green married the daughter of Chief Doublehead.  Nancy Doublehead aka Alnenee Talliutsuve.  Gardner Green shows up as a lieutenant in the revolutionary war fighting for Britain.  As many Indians did side with Britain.  I find some Indians fighting under him such as Edward Vann, Joseph Vann and Martin Cloud.

    These Vanns are very well documented and their home is a museum in Georgia.  There are also several other families connected to my Greens that migrated down to Indian Territory that fought under Gardner Green.   We can take a look at what was going on in history at that time such as assimilation of Indians or exclusion of Indians, in order to gather the true facts.

    For instance if one was Indian and living next to a white they were listed as white.  If they live next door to blacks they were listed as blacks.  This happened with my family for several generations.  They tried to sue the government for millions of dollars for not allowing them to enroll with the tribe.  The government denied their claims not based on their lack of Indian blood but on their lack of continued enrollment for several generations.

    Mysteriously almost all of the documentation from file 976 that my family filed with the US government has disappeared.  Over 200 applications filed by my family claiming relations to Gardner Green and Essam [Issom?] Franklin gone.  Gardener Green and Issom Franklin were neighbors in SC.
    --  Troy Sims, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 29 January 2015
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    "Isom Franklin is living in Greenville SC in the late 1700's.  His land is well into Cherokee territory, and is associated with Henry Sizemore, Meschack Green, Gardner Green, Thomas Franklin, and Ephraim Franklin.  I believe Isom's daughter to be Lucretia Franklin that married Meshack Green."  (Troy Sims is a genealogical researcher on the Green familiy line among the various Native American tribes of Virginia and the Caroinas, and a descendant of Meshack W Green and Lucretia Franklin of Pendleton District, South Carolina.)
    --  Troy Sims, Ancestry Discussion Group, 22 September 2011

    "I find my Gardner Green family moving from 1770 Lunenburg Va to Surry County NC   And then on to the Old 96 District SC some as early as 1768 living on the Pacolet River, and Rocky River SC.  They migrated south with the Weirs/Wares and Sizemore’s.  I believe they came out of the Northern Neck of Virginia; Bristol Parish.  My Green/Franklin family had over 200 NA applications filed with the Guion Miller.  All Denied.  The Sizemore’s had over 2000 applications filed and most denied. Several got through   Our families were brought to court in Lunenburg VA for living in adultery.  I believe they were at one time Nottoway Indian and ruled by the Pamunkey 'Queen Betty.'  ... Thomas Baker Franklin of Cherokee Ponds (Hopewell SC 'Treaty of Hopewell 1785') is connected to Isham Franklin, Shadrack Green and Gardner Green.  The Reverend James Hembree was witness to Isham Franklin’s Estate and Nancy Franklin Administrator.  Nancy Franklin also Administrator of Thomas Baker Franklin’s Estate.  I noticed some interesting purchasers at Thomas’ estate:  James Vann, and Edward Vann (Cherokee Indian)."
    --  Troy Sims, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 18 September 2019

    "My ggreatgrandfather Thomas was brother to Esom Franklin, son of Ephriam and Nancy Franklin."
    --  Barbra Cook Dees, Ancestry Discussion Group, 01 June 2013

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