Virginia
[uncertain]
(Jennie)
Maxwell
Born about in Montgomery (now Tazewell) Co, VA
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Maxwell Sr.
and Jane (Roberts) Maxwell
Sister of
Elizabeth Amanda (Maxwell) Marrs, Thomas Maxwell, Mary Jane (Maxwell) Campbell, Margaret 'Peggy' (Maxwell) Whitley, John William Maxwell, Matilda Maxwell, Nancy Ann (Maxwell) Whitley, James Maxwell Jr., Sarah (Maxwell) Phillips, William James Maxwell, Robert Maxwell, Jane Maxwell and Margaret Elizabeth (Maxwell) Barrett
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 3
in Montgomery (now Tazewell) Co, VA
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Jun 2017
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Biography
Daughter of James “Great White Chief” Maxwell, Sr. (1745-1821) and Jane Roberts (1745-1820).
Given name of "Virginia" is implied by nickname of "Jennie".
Murdered by marauding Shawnee Indians in the spring of 1782.
Sources
- Ancestry.com entry for "Jennie Maxwell".
- Mary Ann Fields, "Maxwell-Witten," in John Newton Harmon, Sr. Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia from 1800 to 1922, Vol. II (Richmond, VA: W. C. Hill Printing Company, 1925), pages 374-380. Mrs. Fields’ article is an important source for information about her great-grandfather, James Maxwell, and his descendants.
- George W. L. Bickley, History of the Settlement and Indian Wars of Tazewell, Virginia (Cincinnati: Morgan & Co., 1852).
- Emory L. Hamilton (ed.), “Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and Holston Rivers, 1773-1794,” unpublished MS. Story No. 52, pages 109-11: “Captain James Maxwell’s Two Daughters Killed.”
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jennie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jennie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jennie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jennie:
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~1.56%
Linda (Thompson) Low
:
23andMe, GEDmatch NL5365852 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #493784
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~0.78%
C Lauffer :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Jeannette (Underwood) Watts :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Harold Cunningham :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A086391 [compare], Ancestry member cunninghamhe
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~0.78%
William St.Clair :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Grace (Stone) Hill :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Mary (Maxson) Morris :
MyHeritage DNA, yourDNAportal MAR224f7bc4
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