Anna Pell Native American?

Question

Why doesn't this record prove she was a Native American? What Proof is there that she was returned at 12? What proof is there that she was only 9?

The Pell manor : address prepared for the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors; p 16: "He married Anna, by tradition said to be the daughter of the reigning Indian Sachem Ninham-Wampage or Annahock."

Answer 1

This isn’t a record.  It’s a statement made by someone more than 100 years later, which actually says it’s “tradition” meaning not a fact.

Comments

Ok thank you.

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I wouldn't go as far to say it's not fact though. Aren't the oral traditions of Native Americans not fact or seen as such?

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This isn’t a Native American oral tradition, it’s something apparently passed down in a white family.  The original part of the story, that a white child who was a captive from age 9 to 12 had a child by a Chief while she was captive cannot be true simply because of her age.

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What's the proof on her age?

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An why does the color of one's skin dictate if there tradition is fact or fiction? I've ran into this type of stuff so much. I have DNA to back my connection to Matoaka. I have people here who clearly had a tradition but nothing is good enough.

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The very fact you call it a white family is telling. If anything they where mixed most "White people" even with other dna aren't going to say there not white. Especially back then.

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The captive story is recorded in Winthrop's Journal, written at the time the events occurred. He wrote about the death of Anne Hutchinson in 1643, and  the return of her daughter Susannah in 1646.  He says that the child was about 8 when taken and was with the Indians about 4 years (actually more like 3) so at most 12 when recovered.  (1908 edition, Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649 by John Winthrop, James Kendall Hosmer)  p. 276

https://archive.org/details/winthropsjourna00hosmgoog/page/n300/mode/2up?q=Susanna

 Susannah married John Cole 1651, age about eighteen. Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)

https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21074/222/1427868999

There is simply no evidence to support the claim. 

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Wow I didn't know about that sorry. It's been hard weeding out who is Native an not. I've come across some very hate full people. In my searching for my Native ancestor. I'm sorry.