Did Charles Griffin have children with a Native American woman?

Question

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Is the "Wm Griffin" listed in the Old Settlers Roll, who apparently had a brother named "Daniel" both of whom are listed as members of the Cherokee National Council who voted with John Ross against the sale of Cherokee lands in North Carolina and Georgia, and who appear again at the Red Clay, TN., campground before the Removals, related to the "Charles Griffin" who founded Christiana in Virginia and who taught at William and Mary before moving to North Carolina? (presumably among the Saponi?  Are any of these tied to the Saponi "Griffins"?

Wado

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Dell Griffin   aka "ben Yoseif Ghodawakamagazu"

(I can trace my g-g grandfather, Rev. James Washington Griffin, born in 1831 to Rising Fawn, Ga., very near the Red Clay, TN campground., but cannot locate for certain his father presumed to be a "Wm Griffin."  (I can't validate his birth or death by any will or census). my late aunt, Opal Griffin Reed died about 20 years ago but did some geneaological work and told us we were related to the Saponi who intermarried with Cherokee.I'm not sure that is correct.  Another source told me Wm Griffin was a sheriff in the Flint District, but was removed from office, moved to Fort Gibson, Arkansas but then returned to be part of some kind of Cherokee council. My "Wm. Griffin" shows up again with a number of children, some of whom made applications to the Cherokee nation, but were all denied.  I was raised White so have never sought membership and am already an honorary Apache after living among some untribed Apache for eight years and teaching the Torah. I am also an adopted Dakota (Olesacredrain), a charter member and scribe of the Native American Equahimiyi-Wasi Research Society and past ambassador at large for the non-accredited Central Band of Cherokee under the tenure of Joe Sittingowl White.  I also have attended three Kituwah society meetings as a guest of the Eastern Band near Bryson City, NC and met with Kituwah elders and the historian  in Tahlequah.  My late mother told me that her grandmother  Nellie Hill, daughter of John Henry and Sarepta Jane (Davis) Hill was Wild Potato Clan and that Sarepta's father was "Will Davis" of Hill City, Tennessee who was Cherokee, but this is not the Griffin line. My father's maternal line is Westmoreland and my g-g-g grandfather, Reeves Westmoreland married Susannah Harwell who my late half-sister claims was linked to the Powhattan Nation through a descendant of Pocohontas.

 In the fall of 1973, as a senor at LSU,  I was chosen to be the moderator of a panel discussion between BIA and AIM about the Wounded Knee uprising at the last minute when the chosen moderator canceled.  That awakened something in me and I have been promoting the restoration of Native American spiritual sovereignty (the First World) based on the Torah link of the ancient non-Jewish Hebrew priesthood of Gilead linked to the Athap(b)ascan Language Group migrations for three decades.    https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6958682133330612224?

 I am only seeking to vaidate my Aunt's, Mothers and Sister's research and  conclusions.  My late Sister Betty Griffin Boze also said we were direct descendants of the sister of Old Brimm who was the chief of the Yuchi Nation who intermarried with Creek and Saponi.  Hopefully, if any of this is true, it will help me understand  where this Native American interest of the past four decades originates.   Again, Wado

Comments

Here is a link to Serepta Jane Davis Hill's Louisiana death record, which lists her parents as Matthew and Serepta Davis:

"Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F33S-R5P : 4 March 2021), Serapta J Hill, 10 May 1918; citing New Rodessa, Caddo, Louisiana, certificate number 8322, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 2,364,702.

If the Davises were Cherokee and living in North Carolina or Tennessee they should appear on the 1848 Mullay Roll and/or the 1851/52 Siler and Chapman Rolls, but they are not listed.

Answer 1

There is no evidence that the Charles Griffin who worked with the Saponi https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Griffin-16198 had any children.  He died about 1720, so could not have been the father of men who were born after 1785.  He also wrote about the benefits of the solitary life, which would not be the case if he had a wife and children.

There is no information about the parents of either of the Cherokee men named Daniel Griffin who were alive in the 1830's.  One was from Tennessee, was married to Ollie Lasley, emigrated to Indian Territory in 1834 and died there in July 1834.  The other lived in Alabama and was married to Jennie Ratliff; he had a son named William.   A different William Griffin lived on the Valley River in North Carolina and emigrated to Indian Territory in 1834.  He does not appear on the 1851 Old Settler Roll so must have died before then.