Is there any evidence that “Moriah Bland” was a real person?

Question

Moriah Bland is listed as the consort of James Crewes and the mother of Hannah Crewes Carter.  There is a large body of evidence which makes it very unlikely that James Crewes was Hannah’s father, and other than on the Internet and in Don Greene’s made-up “genealogies” Moriah does not seem to exist.  She is frequently recorded in family trees as a Cherokee Indian, born in southeastern Virginia in 1615.  This is clearly impossible since the Cherokee lived 500 miles away across the unexplored Appalachian mountains and the area was firmly in the grip of the Powhatan Confederacy.  The children of John Bland, a member of the London Company, were born in the 1600’s and did not arrive in Virginia until much later so she cannot be related to them.

Answer 1

Apparently not, but she remains to prevent others adding a profile for her and not having all the debunk info.

Answer 2

The plan is to disconnect Hannah in the near future. I just want to make sure all the profiles involved have as much information as possible.

Comments

Hoping this will trigger discussion so we can get Moriah protected and marked as uncertain or disproven existence.  Thx for all your work on this family.

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We can protect her as an adjunct to the Native American project since she's been claimed to be one, or Disproven Existence can have her. (But I think the policy is for the closest content area to take her, right, Lucy?)

Answer 3

I have found no mention of her in any records in researching the Carter, Crewes family for the last 50 years.  The first I heard was internet chatter after the year 2000 discussing the speculative theory of Shawn Potter which I believed to be unproven.   Shawn didn't early on know of the will of John Rowen  when i told him of it he said that it shouldn't be considered.  His thinking being Giles Carter had one wife named Hannah and children born about the time of James Crewes will 1676.  So this evidence didn't fit his theory.  I have indications that they were born in the early 1660's with the youngest Giles Carter jr. born about 1686 This gap indicates 2 wifes both named Hannah as shown by Crewes and Giles Carter sr.'s wills. It appears  Don Green edited these postings adding names, dates, and percentages of Indian blood by tribe which would at that time been unknowable.   This series of books though looking like the product of detailed genealogical research have many internal conflicts and contradictions that show it is an unsourced work of fiction to my thinking. Which appeals to people wanting an Indian heritage without the trouble of doing the research themselves.  When asked Spirit Wolf aka Green said  that he didn't keep up with sources it was the stories that were his concern