Reality/Truth vs. Belief/Perception regarding Peter Phillips in the 1880 NY State Federal Census

I am not Rip Van Winkle nor Snow White ... asleep for years and years ... nor am I dead (yet). So this evening I have decided to take time away from my research interests and post a new entry to this blog. My apologies for the delay ... this post is about 'a fairy tale' of sorts, perpetuated by one Donald W. Stevens Jr., chief of the Nulhegan, Inc. "tribe" now sanctioned by the Colonizer State of Vermont as a "Native American" "tribe" ...

Retrospectively speaking, back when Donald Warren Stevens Jr. was asking me for any genealogical information of what I had on the Phillips family, I had at-that-time, sent to him a CD of scanned pages of the entire content of Winifred A. (nee: Jerome) Yaratz's 2006 printed book, she had compiled, of varied unsubstantiated oral tidbits, articles etc but this book was obviously a pro-Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. / "Abenaki" bias.

Don Stevens Communications

Winifred A. (nee: Jerome) Yaratz's genealogical descent from Peter Phillips Sr. (b. ca. 1832 - 1906) 

Now, I want you to NOTICE a particular sentence: 

"Old Pete Phillips was listed in the New York census as race Indian in the year 1870."

So, when Frederick Matthew Wiseman, began to write up his "crap" (imho) (ca. 2005-2011) regarding these 4 "Abenaki" groups in Vermont, creating these 4 groups their Applications for Vermont State Recognition, he IMPLIED  (because I had given Donald Warren Stevens Jr. the Yaratz compiled book) that I had 'vetted' or validated the Yaratz book content therein. (HARDLY!) 

Suffice it to say I that have begun that task (as time allows), on several points. In particular the above sentence, out of curiosity. 

I could not find a Peter Phillips in the 1870 NY State Census, but I did find a Peter Phillips in June 1880.

I think this is the New York State Census that the author Yaratz incorrectly cited on her Page 25.

Pierrepont is a town and hamlet in St. Lawrence County, New York.

Peter Phillips, age 52, I = Indian, Laborer, Married, He and his parents born in New York State.

Elizabeth " " , age 41, I = Indian, Wife, Married, She and her parents born in New York State.

And their son's John (21) and Fred (14). 

Now, yes, the Vermont 'Peter Phillips' in Peacham/Danville, Vermont did in fact, marry an "Eliza" (nee: Way), whom was sister to Sarah (nee: Way) Sweetser, Helen (nee: Way) Burbank - Woodward - Nunn - Sweetser, and Ivy (nee: Way) Littlefield - Phillips - Bell. 

And yes, in fact, Peter and Eliza's son Joseph Phillips did in fact, marry to his mother's sister Ivy. Their daughter was Christie May (nee: Phillips) mentioned in the Vermont Eugenics SURVEY. And Christie did in fact MARRY to David Sweetser contrary to the V.E.S. field researcher, H.E.A. !! 

But how I digress ...

Was this NY "Peter Phillips" actually the Peter Phillips who was IN Vermont, and the son of Antoine Philips Sr. and Catherine Emery dit Coderre?

So riddled with distortions and myth, its not even substantiated on several levels.
Genealogically-speaking a lot of the dates of birth for Antoine Sr. and his son Peter Sr. have been invalidated by decent genealogical research. 

Don Stevens was going by what he got from the Eugenics Survey Records when he created this chart, and the information in it he got from Judy (nee: Fortin) Dow, Nancy Gallagher, and me, Douglas Buchholz.

Oh, LOOK, there is a Peter Phillips (alias) Joseph Tarbell, and his widow Elizabeth !!

So this Pierrepont, St. Lawernece County, NY 1880 "Peter Phillips" was a St. Regis Mohawk ...

CIVIL WAR:
AE 73 yrs; Co. K. 6th N.Y. Regt. N.H. Vol.
Name: Joseph Tarbell
Age at Enlistment: 36 years
Enlistment Date: 5 Jan 1864
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: New Hampshire
Was Wounded?: Yes
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company K, New Hampshire 6th Infantry Regiment on 05 Jan 1864. Mustered out on 05 Jan 1865 at Hancock Station, VA.
Birth Date: abt 1828
Sources: Register of Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire 1861-65
The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War

(NOW we're getting somewhere, as to his identity)

The next step was to order his Civil War Pension Records from National Archives on January 03, 2018.

And this is partially what the content of that man's Civil War Military Pension Records provided:

Peter Phillips:
"I was born in St. Regis, New York. I am an Indian by birth. My Indian name is Na-Ra-Ka-Tah-aāl.

I enlisted as Joseph Tarbell. I am called Peter Phillips in this neighborhood. I have followed farming. I have lived in St. Regis, Colton, Lewisburg, South Edwards, Canton - all these places are in this vicinity." 

Conclusion: "Peter Phillips" was an Ahkwesáhsne Mohawk man, named Joseph Tarbell who went by the name "Peter Phillips".

Deposition of Samuel J. Grow: 
Case of Joseph Tarbell alias John/Peter Phillips No. 226.410
On the fourth day of January 1895 ... at Hogansburgh, Franklin County, New York, before me, W. A. Martin, a Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared, S. J. Grow, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogations propounded to him during this Special Examination of aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says:

"I am 51 years of age, a Merchant, Residence and Post Office address, Hogansburg, New York.
Yes, I know Joseph Tarbell, or Joe Whiskey, or Joe Phillips, and Peter Phillips. Knew he lived near Edwards, New York."

Conclusion: Peter Phillips of Edwards, NY, born at St. Regis, the Ahkwesáhsne Mohawk Community, was known and went by the names Joseph Tarbell, Joe Whiskey, John Phillips and or Peter Phillips.

MARRIAGE RECORD:
Ste. Regis, Huntington County, Quebec, Canada
15 Feb 1858
Joseph "Onenharekehte" / Pierre (Joe Whiskey; Joe Phillips; Peter Phillips) and his wife,
Elizabeth "Atonwentsine" (nee: Jackson) ...

Conclusion: The couple were married in a Canadian Catholic Parish, under their Mohawk names.

And indeed their son, Frank Tarbell / Phillips was born 15 May 1866 in Ahkwesáhsne !

Peter Phillips/ Joseph Tarbell married twice. Before Elisabeth "Atonwentsine" (nee: Jackson) ... Peter had married to Marie "Konwansatsion" (She was born June 02, 1833 and died January 26, 1854.

How do I know this? Because I wrote to the St. Regis Mission and asked politely.

As you can read for yourselves, Sarah "Buckshot" was a WITNESS along with her husband to the marriage of Joseph Tarbell/Peter Phillips and Elisabeth "Atonwentsine" (nee: Jackson) ... the very same day that Sarah herself got married to David Loran, also a Mohawk couple.

Now if folks have forgotten, it is the Partlow family descendants who also bastardized the narrative and truth about Charles Henry Partlow being "Abenaki" based on Allen Stratton's 1986 typed-up compiled information from the Alburgh, VT Town Records regarding the UNNAMED "FOUR INDIANS"

Four Alburgh Indians Data

Surprising, researching this Joseph Tarbell/"Peter Phillips" Mohawk man, interconnects with David Loran and his wife Sarah Buckshot !

Charles Henry Partlow was NEVER one of the 4 Indians mentioned in the Alburgh Town Records whatsoever. He was a Loyalist ! But that didn't stop the descendants from IMPLYING that he was "Abenaki" based on Allen Stratton's book ! LOOK at the ORIGINAL TOWN RECORD. Descendants are Meoldy Walker - Brook, Carollee Reynolds, Patsy (nee: Partlow) wife if Homer Walter St. Francis Sr., and Brent Reader ... all of them pointing their fingers at Stratton's 1986 book as "proof" (but was it really valid proof of their ancestor or they themselves being Abenakis? The answer is NO!)

The following are actual photocopies from the Catholic Parish Records for the cited Marriage of "Peter Phillips" and his wife Elizabeth, as well some information about their children:

Joseph Onenharekehte Tarbell/ "Peter Phillips", the Ahkwesáhsne Mohawk man, his two spouses, and children from the second spouse, are clearly visible, moving around, identifiable in the records. 

We can even see Joseph Onenharekehte in the 1851 Ste. Regis Mohawk Community (on the Quebec side), age 24 years old.

July 07, 1896

Norwood News Newspaper

And here ends the narrative of this "Peter Phillips" / Joseph Tarbell / "Joe Whiskey"

April 22, 1915

Now to the point of this posting ...

Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan ponied up to the Vermont State Legislature, with the help of his idiot Professor, Fred Wiseman Ph.D.  whom IMPLIED in the Recognition materials that I, Douglas Lloyd Buchholz, had vetted / validated what Winifred (nee: Jerome) Yaratz had compiled in her book of 2006. And they ran with what I gave to Don Stevens Jr. to the naive Vermont Politicians, with her book.

And Don Stevens Jr. has been propping up this NY Federal Census Page of Peter Phillips the Indian, right along with Winifred (nee: Jerome) Yaratz, as if it PROVES that their ancestor, by the same name, were one and the same. Pointing to this Census of the Mohawk Indian, as if this validated somehow that their ancestor Peter Phillips was an Indian of the Abenaki Tribe.

In retrospect a Phillips Descendant of Peter Phillips Sr. (ca. 1832-1906), son of Antoine and Catherine, had shared this with me, here in Vermont:

Donald W. Stevens Jr: 
"Those people who do not believe we are Indian, there will never be enough proof you can provide to them to satisfy their doubts. For people who may doubt us going forward, all I have to say is that independent Historians, Scholars, and a Genealogist looked at our petition for recognition in the State of Vermont, the House and the Senate verified the results, the Attorney General gave his nod, and the Governor officially recognized us as Indian. We have proven ourselves to the satisfaction of the Government and that is good enough for me. No one else has to prove their lineage except Indians and we have done that. So moving forward, just accept the fact that you are of Indian lineage and tell your children and grandchildren the same. You have a Nulhegan tribal card to prove it and that tribal card was not easily obtained without all of the checks and balances behind it. So whatever you may or may not believe about your past, as of 2011 you and your children are officially Indian!"

Operative Words: Looked at ... 

I could have LOOKED AT that Census and IMPLIED that was (Antoine Phillips Sr. and Catherine Coderre's son) Peter Phillips, and SAID that he was "Indian" and an "Abenaki" as well. 

But where would be the HONOR and TRUTH be in doing so? 

Considering the above information that you all just reviewed !!!

What "independent" Historians ... Scholars? What Genealogist? How did the Vermont Legislative House and or Senate verify the results? 

The Vermont Legislature and Governors simply gave their sleazy vote and created FAKE ABENAKIS from 2006 to 2012. 

Proved what? That you are LIARS and DECEIVERS! (imho) That you are TRYING TO TURN MOHAWKS into "Abenakis" of Vermont?

"Checks and Balances" behind getting a FAKE "Abenaki" Membership Card. Taking a cue from Homer is what Don Sevens Jr. is doing. Heck, even the Bruchac's aren't Abenaki regardless of their phony narratives about Bowman's. 

Don Stevens Jr. isn't doing ANY "checks and balances" genealogically of even his own relatives! Let alone evaluating the validity of what he's been "pushing" to those Phillips relatives, as "evidence" / "proof" in his own hands. He's deceiving his own relatives; and he's giving out membership cards to anyone. (Just like Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. and Michael Delaney did, over in Swanton, Vermont!)

Birds of a feather, flock together ... as some would say.

Donald Warren Stevens Jr. is not telling the TRUTH regarding this recognition "business"... He has been IMPLYING about who this 'Peter Phillips' was in the 1880 Census over in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, NY ... using it as "evidence" to the sleazy lazy Vermont Politicians, and even to his own Phillips cousins as if this were his own ancestor!!!

The Phillips descendants NEED to be aware of the bastardization of their own ancestral history, if they care enough to stop and listen to their ancestors, instead of to Don Stevens Jr. 

I don't know whether to laugh or cry or simply continue to be disgusted at the absurdity of the "chief" of the Nulhegan group, that came from Homer's group, doing this nonsense.

Public Radio Host to Speak at Graduation
Middlebury Will Award Five Honorary Degrees at Graduation

"Donald W. Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of Vermont’s Coosuk - Abenaki Nation, is also one of the planned recipients of an honorary degree from Middlebury College. He is a respected Abenaki leader in Vermont who has been instrumental in raising awareness of the rich Abenaki heritage as well as securing legal recognition for the Abenaki people and their lands. Stevens also has more than 27 years of experience developing information technology, logistics, and manufacturing strategies for multi-million-dollar companies, is a U.S. Army Veteran and served two terms on the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs, the second as chair. 
The degree bears both personal and cultural significance, Donald Stevens told The Campus. “Neither of my parents were able to graduate high school because they had to work to support the family and help feed their siblings. My sisters were able to graduate high school but I am the only one in the family that was able to go to college and complete my degree after I completed my Military Service,” he said. 
Donald Stevens also addressed Middlebury students directly. “Stay in touch with what made you who you are and this beautiful planet of ours. It is the only one we have and must be looked after for future generations,” he said. 
The Middlebury College Commencement ceremony will take place on the main quadrangle at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, May 26, 2019. More than 5,000 family members and friends are expected to attend."

So .... to get an "Honorary Degree" from Middlebury College, Don Stevens Jr. has done what exactly? ... to get that degree? Be nominated? Throw his name into a hat? 

Sorry Middlebury College ... but you are giving an Honorary Degree, not to an Abenaki chief, but to a Black Man's descendant, because Peter Phelps, who died in St. Albans, VT  November 1865 was born out of SLAVERY, and brought up to Sheldon (formerly Hungerford), Franklin County, Vermont by Elnathan Keyes in the company of the Sheldon Family from Connecticut !!! 

But hey, who cares about TRUTHFUL REALITY these days eh?!

Vermonters are too stupid to smell the BS by these "Abenaki" "chief's" (imho)

You do 'see' now how some of the Partlow descendants, claiming to be "Abenakis" are using Mohawk men from Ahkwesáhsne to allegedly substantiate their "Abenaki" identities based of identity theft. And now we see it with some of the Phillips descendants, not only appropriating identity theft of the Metallic ancestry, but also the Chief Philippe lineage, and NOW, with this Ahkwesáhsne Mohawk man Joseph Onenharekehte Tarbell/ "Peter Phillips" per this 1880 Census Record. It 's a bit odd, don't you think? 

LIES

DISTORTIONS 

BASTARDIZATION of the ABENAKI PEOPLE

RACE SHIFTING 

ABENAKI IDENTITY THEFT

ABENAKI CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

And the "chief" of a State Recognized Incorporation started in 2004 gets an Honorary Degree from a Vermont College.

Totally Laughable and Insanity! 

Regina (nee: Morin Prince) of Columbus, Ohio and the research done subsequent to her newspaper article:

On October 12, 2015, Regina (nee: Morin) wrote for the ACLU of Ohio an article entitled "A Need for Indigenous Peoples’ Day" ... 

Here's the URL Link:

Need for Indigenous Peoples' Day

Now for most folks, someone claiming or implying that they are of "Abenaki" descent probably wouldn't even raise an eyebrow, let alone bring a question to the mind ... but, I am not your 'Average Gullible Joe' out there, believing everything I read in a newspaper, online article ... let alone a blog.

Not even this blog that I have constructed 😊 Look at the OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE not the subjective "evidence" ... go out and VALIDATE what I am sharing IN this blog.

What caught my eye was her statement, and I quote:

"I am living proof of the failure of assimilation and the success of resilience by my Abenaki ancestors"

Regina (nee: Morin) Prince

And then there is the December 05, 2018 online article:

Zora's House Ambassador: Regina (Morin) Prince

It is this latter online article that alerted me to her claim, that she was "Abenaki" etc. (quote)

"... exuded pride in her Abenaki heritage."

What she sounds like is that she's oozing pride in her "Abenaki heritage" self-identity.

But wait ... (wait for it ...) how can she exude pride in her Abenaki heritage, and not exude pride in her Irish or French Quebec heritage as well?
What happened to those ancestors?

Oh wait, there is NO ABENAKI HERITAGE ...

(And let me take you by the hand and step-by-step genealogically, explaining why this conclusion is made)

First of all, NO WHERE in this December 2018 article (nor the one in the 2015) does Regina ever disclose BY NAME which ancestor she descends from, who she implies and claims was an Abenaki. What COMMUNITY did this ancestor whose was allegedly Abenaki, come from? Etc.

"Crickets"

Who are her Abenaki ancestors? That's the Million Dollar Question. And so the research began ...

SO I began to seek out WHO were Regina's father and mother. To do this I had to find obituary's of their parents (or her great-grandparents) online.

First there was Mary Frances (nee: Murnane) Vogel, age 86 years, Monday, who passed away November 13, 2006. And therein the obituary stated "Survived by children, John Vogel, Mary (Jim) Paisley, Joseph (Jeannette) Vogel, Ann Bush, Barbara (Marc) Morin, Therese (Manuel) Pace, Irene (Drew) Tyack, Jean (Gary) Sephel; grandchildren, Andrew (Christen) and Justin Vogel, Chris and Kevin Paisley, Rachel, Renee and Ryan Vogel, Corey and Kelly Bush, Nigel and Regina Morin, Daniel, Katie and Joe Pace, Michelle Tyack, Molly and Jack Sephel; numerous nieces, nephews, relatives and friends."

So there we have our first genealogical 'footprint' ... Mary Frances (Munane) Vogel, married to Richard Charles Vogel, has a daughter Barabra A. Vogel, who then married to Mark E. Morin on November 16, 1974 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio.

Then I sought out "Marc" Morin's parentage: That being Charles Raymond Morin, and his wife Mary Louise (nee: Sandusky). How do I know this? Because Mark's brother Charles Raymond Morin Jr. passed away and had an obituary as well.

Charles R. Morin, Jr., P.E., founding partner of Engineering Systems, Inc. in Aurora, IL, died peacefully at his home on February 02, 2008, at the age of 60. "His siblings: Kandi (Steve) Smith and Marc (Barbara) Morin, all of the Columbus, OH area."

And from that point genealogically-speaking I simply sought out Regina's paternal ancestors first, and then began mapping out her maternal ancestors as well.

 

As you can see and review, the Marc (or Mark) E. Morin ancestry were identified and identifying as WHITE (not as Indians, and not as "Abenakis"). Repeatedly, the Federal Census Records for Regina's ancestors and her direct ancestors descendants were identifying as either French, Irish, or White. 

NOT ABENAKI NOR AS INDIAN 

Paternally-speaking, the Morin ancestry goes directly back to La Seine-et-Mame, lie-de-France, France as it pertains to Marc and his daughter Regina. There is no surname change from some surname else wise to Morin. (Again, this is not Bowman's changing their surname from O'Bomsawin to "hide-in-plain-sight" to avoid discrimination or because they were "too afraid" to identify themselves as Abenakis, or Indians etc.). 

So what is the basis for Regina (Morin) Prince's claim that her father's paternal ancestors changing their name to Morin. THEY'RE ANCESTORS WERE ALWAYS MORIN straight off the coast of France, into the port in 'Nouvelle-France' ... right down to Marc Morin in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. The latter of whom, according to Regina his daughter, made her aware of their alleged "Abenaki" identity.

Regina Morin - Prince does in fact benefit from white privilege, because she has appropriated an Abenaki identity, not based on genealogical fact and truth, but merely on beliefs and perceptions passed on to her, by her own father. When she claims she is navigating expectations inside and outside of the community, one must ask WHAT COMMUNITY? When she says she is being careful not to appear as if she is representing the Abenaki, how come she CAN'T or WON'T DECLARE WHO HOW WHEN WHY of her alleged Abenaki ancestor, that she claims to be Abenaki herself.

It would appear from the December 2018 article that she simply reviewed what was online, about the "Abenaki" of Vermont and New Hampshire etc. and simply 'ran with it' without so much as a question as to the website/web page's content's accuracy.

MYTH: The Vermont Eugenic's SURVEY of Vermont sterilized Abenakis.

Regina (Morin) Prince claims she had relatives who were castrated and who were forced to have abortions.

Which ancestors of Regina Morin were identified in the V.E.S. (?) Her grandmother's grandmother's sister's brother's son (?) If so, what does that have to do with Regina or her direct ancestors, them allegedly being mentioned in the Eugenic's SURVEY of Vermont?

Secondly, how does Regina (nee: Morin) Prince KNOW which relatives were sterilized or had forced abortions? The Eugenic's SURVEY of VT boxes DO NOT contain HIPPA protected medical data such as sterilizations, because the Eugenic's SURVEY was not doing the sterilizations or the abortions, as Regina and these "Abenakis" proclaim and perpetuate their myth making around these records. It was the MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS that were doing the sterilizations, and as such, those records were NEVER PART OF THE VT EUGENICS RECORDS. All anyone knows is that (quote) the sterilization of 253 UNNAMED PERSONS. All we have is the number of people sterilized, and most certainly not those persons ethnicity backgrounds, nor the reason(s) why they were sterilized.

So for anyone to claim that the Vermont Eugenics SURVEY had sterilized or forced an abortion on an Abenaki person is just plain old MYTH-MAKING nonsense perpetuated since 1986 started by Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. and his side-kick allies like John Scott Moody, and their allies/ supporters. Again, this is about objective evidence vs. their subjective unsubstantiated claims and assertions.

Claiming she is 'a woman of color' was a puzzlement to me, considering that none of her ancestors were of color i.e. African American or Native American, so for her to feel shame in "not feeling Native enough" was a paradoxical puzzlement for my mind, reading the December 2018 article again, in comparative to her genealogical ancestry.

So she wants to start an 'indigenous women's group and non-binary support group' within Zora's House (?) so she says ... and who will be writing the grants etc funding this adventure? Would the funding be because Regina (Morin) Prince, as Zora House's Ambassador who SELF-IDENTIFIES as an Abenaki woman? Playing the victim of genocidal past historical wrongs, discrimination, etc?

BUT WAIT A MINUTE: Regina (Morin) Prince has NO ABENAKI ANCESTOR let alone ANY Native American Ancestry whatsoever in her genealogical background ...

Oh Wait another minute ... yes, she does have "something" here ...

11. Regina Morin
10. Mark E. Morin
9. Charles Raymond Morin Sr.
8. Blance (Clara) Simone Lamoureux
7. Charles Trèflé Lamoureux
6. Louis Trèflé Lamoureux
5. Jean Louis Lamoureux
4. Marie Françoise Phaneuf
3. François Phaneuf
2. Jean Baptiste Phaneuf
1. Claude Mathias FARNSWORTH a.k.a. Phaneuf

Claude-Mathias Fanef was born "Matthias Farnsworth", at Groton, Massachusetts, on August 6, 1690 (old style calendar in use then in New England). He was the sixth child of Matthias Farnsworth (Matthias II) and Sarah Nutting, BOTH ENGLISH PERSONS from England who got married at Groton, Massachusetts on March 01, 1681.
When the young Matthias III was captured by the Indians allied to the French, he and thirteen other men were reaping in a field at Groton, Massachusetts.
The Mohawk Indians who captured him on August 11, 1704 (Gregorian calendar), brought him to Montréal, more precisely in their tribe of Sault-au-Récollet. 
Matthias stayed captive of the Indians at the Sault until the end of 1705 or early in 1706. 
He was then bought by the Sulpician's, in fact by Sir François Vachon de Belmont and he was baptized on January 10, 1706. His godfather was Governor Claude de Ramezay (origin of Claude added to his first name) and his godmother, Elisabeth Souart, wife of Charles Lemoyne sieur de Longueuil.
It is only in 1755 that Claud-Mathias's surname was spelled "Phaneuf" for the first time in the registers of Pointe-aux-Trembles. Claude-Mathias asked for his naturalization on October 30, 1706. He will obtain it in May 1710. He worked for the Sulpicians until around 1711. In acknowledgment for his services, he obtained from Sir de Belmont a valuable estate at Rivière-des-Prairies, including land, house and farm buildings, on July 19, 1711.
October 2, 1713, is a great day for Claude-Mathias, he got married to the girl of his neighbor, Catherine Charpentier. They lived happily at Rivière-des-Prairies where they brought up ten of their twelve children (two boys died at a very young age). The ten children got married and gave them a total of 115 grandchildren (110 were born before the death of Claude-Mathias). 
The "Fanef" name was assured by six boys. Joseph settled in Ste. Rose, while the others, Claude, François, Jean-Baptiste, Paul and Pierre, settled successively in St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu. The four girls settled in Ste. Rose. 
As it was the case for their ancestors, they were pioneers of these villages. When their children were brought up, being lonely, near the end of their life, Catherine and Mathias joined their sons in Ste. Antoine. According to the 1765 census, they were probably living with Jean-Baptiste family. 
Mathias died on August 08, 1773 at the age of 83, and Catherine on June 29, 1777, probably at the age of 85 years. They were both buried in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu. Today we find their descendants not only in Québec, but also in other provinces of Canada, as well as in the United States and Europe.

And of those Farnsworth - Phaneuf descendants we find Regina (Morin) Prince and her father Marc Morin.

So let's do the math shall we? From August 11, 1704 (the time of Claud's capture by the Indians of the Sault-au-Récollet, until December 31, 1705 equals:

It is 507 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date.
Or 1 year, 4 months, 20 days excluding the end date.
Or 16 months, 20 days excluding the end date.

So that is 507 days (approximately-speaking) that Claud-Mathias Farnsworth spent in captivity with the Indians (very likely MOHAWKS ... not Abenakis) within the St. François-Xavier-du-Sault and the modern Caughnawaga geographical area, near Montreal.

Apparently, spending 507 days with the Mohawk People, instantly makes a descendant (1954 up to present day December 05, 2018) an Abenaki (?)

So ... still a wee bit curious on my end, I decided to reach out to Regina (Morin) Prince through the social media website Face Book this early morning after completing the mapping of her genealogical background.

Douglas' FB conversation with Regina

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz and Regina Prince Face Book Chat:

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz:

December 17, 2018 at 12:49 AM

Kwaii Regina (nee: Morin) Prince. My name is Douglas Buchholz and I am an Abenaki researcher of the VT/NH dynamic and recently ran across your article. Someone else alerted me to it dated December 05, 2018 regarding Zora's House there in Columbus, Ohio. Your parents are Mark E. Morin and Barbara Vogel (?)

His parents were Charles Raymond Morin and Mary Louise (nee: Sandusky); and her parents were Richard Charles Vogel and Mary Frances (nee: Murnane) … (?)

The reason I am inquiring is that I have these person(s) in my database on Abenaki research and I am looking into these ancestors of yours (if I have your grandparents on both sides correct?).

I would like to confirm that these people are your grandparents Regina, before going further.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Regina (Morin) Prince:

December 17, 2018 at 7:51 AM

Hi Douglas, may I ask what the purpose/goal of the research you are doing?

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz:

December 17, 2018 at 1:03 PM

You claimed in the article that you are of Abenaki descent and I got curious as to who that might be in your ancestry Regina. So could you please enlighten me as to who that ancestor is? Please and thank you.

Regina (Morin) Prince: That doesn’t quite answer my question. What is your Abenaki research and database?

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: My research is of the Abenaki and my database is historical genealogical and social data on the Abenaki. It is that simple.

Regina (Morin) Prince: What specifically about the Abenaki? Is it just a hobby of yours?

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: Everything about the Abenaki ... and no, not a hobby, Rather it’s an endeavor. Who is the Abenaki ancestor you claim?

Regina (Morin) Prince: That’s an interesting endeavor

Regina (Morin) Prince: Are you Abenaki?

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: It is an interesting endeavor indeed.

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: My ancestors said as such.

Regina (Morin) Prince: And with your blog and organization or whatever it is you run, is your goal to prove that others are not?

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: No that‘s not my goal. My interest is purely looking for truth; Objective evidence; Comparatives, etc.

Regina (Morin) Prince: Who were the people that you found, whom were enough to be allowed on your standards, to claim the ancestry? I didn’t spend too much time on your blog but it seems that you list a lot of people who are not, which just doesn’t seem objective like you claim

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: Ok I see that you cannot answer my question yet that you like asking questions. Thank you for your time Regina.

Regina (Morin) Prince: It’s interesting you can ask me questions but you cannot answer all of mine.  No problem.

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: Oh so now you like to ‘gaslight’ … ‘Projecting’ if you will.

Regina (Morin) Prince: I’m not gas-lighting, you asked me a question and I would like some clarification before answering.  It kind of feels the other way around to me?

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: So who is the Abenaki in your ancestry? It’s a very simple question.

Regina (Morin) Prince: So is mine?

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: Again answering a question with a question … is a non-answer.

Regina (Morin) Prince: I’m not saying I gave you an answer? I am very aware I haven’t answered your question yet.  Like I said, I wanted clarification before answering yours.

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: And you have only asked questions Regina.

You can clearly read the blog. So you obviously know who I am … of a sort.

You claim you are Abenaki. So who is the Abenaki ancestor in your ancestry? Or is that some sort of cult secret?

Regina (Morin) Prince: I really don’t know who you are.

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: And?

Regina (Morin) Prince: I don’t know; you said I obviously know who you are and I don’t.

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: I’ve already mapped you genealogy. What I am seeking from you is whether or not you know the name of your claimed Abenaki ancestor. If you don’t know that’s ok …

Regina (Morin) Prince: Well if you already mapped me completely then don’t you already have an answer you’re seeking?

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: No, that’s not my point …

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: But yet again you are evading the initial question I asked. So all I can surmise is you have made a claim that is subjective … and not genealogically objective. It’s something you heard or were told … and you ran with it. Again thank you for your time Regina. Anyway back to research here.

Regina (Morin) Prince: If you would like to twist and interpret me not answering your question as to me not knowing the answer, it’s fine. You would, regardless what answer I give you, so …

I’m not going to give in an answer to your question.

I am not going to validate myself through you.

I don’t need to prove myself to you and your research, hobby, whatever you want to call it.

Good luck with your blog and any insecurity you are having with yourself or your identity. I really do wish you the best, no lighting of gas lamps.

Douglas Lloyd Buchholz: It was nice chatting with you.

Regina (Morin) Prince then proceeded to immediately block any further communication between us on Face Book.

Obviously, Regina merely has to look in the mirror, click her red slipper shoes, and wish she were an Abenaki or a 'woman-of-color' ... because all it is as to her self-identity "Abenaki" persona ... is wishful thinking on her part.

Regina's Ancestral Mapping as of December 17, 2018



Ohio State University Drumming in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline ...

NONE of these photographs nor the genealogical research of this Regina (nee: Morin) Prince MAKES HER an "Abenaki" whatsoever. Just because her ancestor Claud-Mathias Farnsworth - Phaneuf was taken from Massachusetts into Quebec, Canada 1704-1705 doesn't MAKE any of his descendants (including her father) "Abenakis" either. 

So she wanted to know what the purpose/goal of the research I am doing? 

Answer: She ought to look in the mirror and see her FAKE ABENAKI reflection starring back at her.

Pretty soon she will become a member of some Vermont "tribe" perhaps even the Nulhegan group, and continue to pretend along with them, that they are an Abenaki Tribe, filled to the brim with Abenaki ... 

She's just another person who self-identifies as "an Abenaki" because its easy to do; and she probably most likely concluded that no one would dare question or ASK HER who that Abenaki ancestor was/is in her ancestry. 

Perhaps LC Johnson ought to have asked that very question of her Zora House Ambassador BEFORE the issuance of that December 05, 2018 article. 
Or perhaps the ACLU should have asked that same question in October 2015 of Regina Morin. 

Regina is just another Wannabiiak in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio ... whose Morin ancestors dropped down out of Quebec, into Newport, Orleans County, Vermont 

... yep probably just another alleged real "genuine" card holding Nulhegan "Abenaki" ... just like Paul Rene Tamburro with all of his 5-6 membership cards in varied groups "tribes" etc. (Paul is Regina's friend on Face Book). 

One cannot TRUTHFULLY have Abenaki heritage without having the genealogical connections to the Abenaki, UNLESS one is appropriating the culture of the Abenaki, of which honestly does not belong in one's hands. 

CONCLUSION: Regina (Morin) Prince is an Abenaki Identity/ heritage appropriator, who moves in her self-identifying "Abenaki" persona, because of her white privilege; and she's benefiting from that white privilege, by claiming to be descendant of "Abenaki" ancestry ... when in reality, that alleged ancestor was never there to begin with in her ancestry. 

Or else she would not have hesitated to NAME her "Abenaki" Ancestor, (even to me), when I kindly inquired. 

Real Abenaki People are not part of some 'Secret DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL Cult'.

Instead of asking of someone of their possible Native Amer. Percentile ... perhaps better question(s) would be ...

WHO'SE YOUR ABENAKI ANCESTOR(S) ? 
BY NAME AND DISTANCE GENEALOGICALLY? 
WHAT NATIVE COMMUNITY DO YOU COME FROM? 
WHEN DID THAT COMMUNITY ORIGINATE?

Maria Winona Warsoldier is in fact his son; her mother is a Sandra Kay Warsoldier-Caudill. 

Just got this in an email ... (AGAIN she provides no OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE)

Maria (nee: Morin) Singh November 06 2020 Email

"If you can figure out "Longtyne" I'll commend you on that but you are chasing people for being proud of their indigenous roots is pathetic.

Colonization belief system. White Wash.

Publishing Pedigrees is disgusting.

And , again you have been called out numerous times in doing so and how wrong you are for publishing personal information. 

It's people like me who will always defend my family, my multi-ethnic family that drives your research.

Do me a favor...

Research my Iberian and Middle Eastern ancestry as well. Which Arab ethnic background I have, I would love to know that, since I wasn't taught that, only my French, Spanish and Indigenous ethnicity's. I'd like to know since you seem to have all the answers.

Sincerely, on the behalf of my ancestors,

Maria

"Something Else"

CLASSIC SNARKY CONDESCENDING BLAH BLAH BLAH from people trying to denigrate.

NOTICE Maria is never really transparent in her communications regarding her claim that Mark, her father, had "Abenaki" ancestry. She specifically pointed out "Longtyne" but that ancestral Joseph Langtagne (1829 - 1923) who died in Newport, Orleans County, VT was in fact 100% FRENCH, as was his spouse, Marie Émérence Gauthier/Goochee/Gokey (1842 - 1885). 

Everything I have researched about Regina and her ancestors etc has come from PUBLIC and social media records or images. All Maria does is DENIGRATE and RUN HER MOUTH. There is NO OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE SHE nor her sister Regina are Abenakis or Abenaki Descendants. Their late father may have BELIEVED IT (perhaps even TOLD they were) but the genealogical mapping shows otherwise. And like Maria said, she isn't about to provide that objective ancestral evidence to their claims. [probably because they never had it to begin with!]

She (Maria nor Regina before her) have 'defended their family claim to being actual Abenakis, with objective evidence to their assertions. Their claims don't drive me research, but it was a side note amongst a thousand + other race shifting wannabiiak who claim as they do, and never have that objective evidence to substantiate their claims. That's all they are is claims. Empty meritless claims.

MORE data regarding Bruchac's Bowman grandfather's Y-DNA Haplogroup (as of October 13, 2018) ...

Upon getting the initial result (February 24, 2016) for Mr. Bowman's Y-DNA test at FTDNA (at an initial 37 markers) , it was PREDICTED to be R1b - (subclade) M296.

Mr. Bowman's PREDICTED Haplogroup R-M269 

Testing Mr. Bowman, who IS related directly along the paternal (Jack) John Bowman pathway lineage;Jesse Elmer Bowman descended from  and through their father Lewis Bowman Sr. (1844-1918) of whom I tested at FTDNA (Family Tree DNA). Male siblings of a father will carry the same Y-DNA (Unless of course, Alice VanAntwerp, Lewis Bowman's first wife, was not monogamous), therefore, Jesse Elmer Bowman's Y-DNA is going to be the same as his sibling brother Jack (John) Bowman's Y-DNA. Unless of course, there is a NPE (meaning, non-paternity-event) wherein Lewis Bowman Sr. was not monogamous). Clearly this was not the reality with either parent of John and Jesse Bowman, because mbruchac (Margaret Bruchac) granddaughter of Jesse Elmer Bowman, matches to the 4 descendants of her mother (Marion)'s father (Jesse)'s brother (John)'s descendants via atDNA (Family Finder and AncestryDNA) testing, as well as to Berlin Seneca Bowman's descendants.

March 23, 2016
R1b-M343 Backbone SNP Pack was completed

R-Z2109 was the CONFIRMED Haplogroup for Mr. Bowman.

Haplogroup R-M269 is the dominant lineage in all of Western Europe today. It is found in low frequencies in Turkey and the northern Fertile Crescent, while its highest frequencies are in Western Europe.

DNA, whether it is Y-DNA or mtDNA, or atDNA testing, the rule is "It begins with genealogy, and it ends with genealogy." Genetic testing is merely a TOOL in which enhances and guides the genealogist. Ethnicity Percentile predictions are just that, merely predictions, in any genetic testing.
So, upon taking these genetic testing steps, with the permission of Mr. Bowman, we entered into two FTDNA Haplogroup Project Group's (and at first) the Bowman Surname Project. We know now that even though Lewis Bowman (1844-1918) carried the surname "Bowman" ... Lewis Bowman Sr. himself genetically is not a Bowman. I've mentioned previously the surname VAUDRY, and you can see the genetic match below him in the image below ... (more on that later ...)

(Much like I carry the surname Buchholz, because my late father legally changed his surname to Buchholz, we are genetically Smith's going back to Sweden and the Netherlands prior to their immigration in the 1630's to Connecticut, USA.).

One can see this test result's STR's (portion thereof) here:

R1b and Subclades Project for R1b (M343+ and M269+) Y DNA Haplogroup - Y-DNA Classic Chart

Communicating directly via email and telephone with this Mr. P. Vaudry descendant (N242316) I began ascertaining and mapping out his particular genealogical Vaudry lineage, in the East Farnham/ Granby, Shefford County, Québec, Canada area. Varied Vaudry/Veaudry descendant branches of Jacques Vaudry (ca. 1636-abt. 1688) migrated south from the Montréal area down into the Shefford County, Québec area, and down in the States. This Vaudry descendant Y-DNA tester did a Full "Big-Y" DNA test with FTDNA, uploading to YFull and also testing with YSEQ. Following his pathway in genetic testing, I too, with Mr. Bowman's permission, tested for KMS67 - A19092 (L1144) - and FGC6444 in early January 2018.

(The A19092 is one step upstream from his Vaudry FGC6444 designation according to the YFULL Project Tree. It also appears that another name for the A19092 is L1144. Mr. Bowman, through YSEQ tested positively to KMS67 as well as the other two. Subsequently I tested Mr. Bowman for the KMS67 at FTDNA as well, to confirm.

If you notice N242316 descendant male of Jacques Vaudry (1636-1688) has a different Haplogroup subclade designation of R-BY39280. This is because Mr. P. Vaudry went to a 'deeper' subclade of R-M269 on September 15, 2017, etc than I have tested Mr. Bowman at, thus far. If I test Mr. Bowman deeper, using the "Big Y 500" (as they call it now) at FTDNA, he too would have the R-BY39280 terminal SNP ...

(SNP stands for Single-nucleotide polymorphism, frequently pronounced “snip”, are the most common type of genetic variation among people)

On May 18, 2018 FTDNA tested Mr. Bowman's Y-DNA deeper, subclade, testing the SNP which was CONFIRMED R1b-KMS67.

KMS67 derives out of EUROPE, as in EUROPEANS

(NOT Indigenous Peoples of N'dakinna)

In 2015 the Phylogenetic Tree shows R1b subclade M269. Like following the trunk of a living tree, one climbs further up this genetic trunk, past Z2103, and then Z2106, coming to Z2109, and subsequently branching off to the right, wherein KMS67 now has a branch in 2017.

R1b-KMS67 Phylogenetic Tree

(mapped as of March 05, 2017)

One can clearly derive that R1b > M269 > R-Z2109 > KMS67 (and eventually R-BY39280) is the Y-DNA patrilinical direct-male-ancestral pathway for Lewis Bowman Sr. (1844-1918). 

It's simple and it is not complicated at all

In my previous blog post of yesterday evening, I mentioned that Mr. Bowman matched to a C. LaBeff surname male descendant on July 19, 2017. 

Following the genealogical mapping of this LaBeff tester, we find that his father and grandfather) came from varying counties in Texas. Yet his great grandfather Henry Carlton LaBeff (1855-1932) was born in Dallas County, Arkansas. Henry's paternal grandfather André (Andrew or Andy) Jr. was born in Louisiana on January 26, 1800. Both André Sr. and Jr. were both in Louisiana and Arkansas. It was André Sr.'s father Charles Hyacinthe LeBoeuf (1712-aft. 1777) who migrated from Montréal, Québec, Canada down into Louisiana by way of (probably) Michigan area. It was Charles' paternal grandfather Jacques LeBoeuf (1643-1696) who married (Fille du Roi) Antoinette (nee: Lenoir dite Pirois) in 1669. 

At 12 markers or STR's (Short Tandem Repeats) or markers within FTDNA, C. LaBeff matches to Mr. Bowman, we lose him at 25 marker level. 

C. LaBeff is too far removed, and has too many Y-DNA marker variations to be a match to Mr. Bowman at any genetic closeness.

On August 18, 2018 a T. LaBeff matched to Mr. Bowman in FTDNA. Yet at a 37 marker test level, he is 3 marker difference to Mr. Bowman. Thus we lose him as a match at 67 marker Y-DNA test level as well.

Yet, the question arises, WHY do the LaBeff's that derive from LeBoeuf out of Chambly and Montréal, Québec, Canada, be matching to BOTH Mr. P. Vaudry -and- to Mr. Bowman? 

The Vaudry Y-DNA genetic paternal contribution could be through Michel Vaudry who was with Charles Hyacinthe LeBoeuf in Louisiana. Or it could be through Charles Hyacinthe LeBoeuf and Pierre Vaudry, as they bought some land in 1769. 

LINK: LeBoeuf's Move to Louisiana

Clearly, a LeBoeuf female had 'relations' with a Vaudry male, and the LeBoeuf female then had a LeBoeuf male child, who subsequently passed down the Vaudry Y-DNA. Where and why this happened is a matter of question ... suffice it to say that the LaBeff's in Texas and very likely the Ouachita area of what is now within the state of Arkansas, are probably NPE (non-paternity-event) Vaudry matches along with Mr. P. Vaudry as well.

Subsequently, to make sure that Mr. P. Vaudry was NOT an 'NPE' (since even though he carries the surname Vaudry, it could be that he might be an undetected genetic descendant male of the Bowman's) ... I began evaluating the genealogical descendants of MANY Vaudry / Veaudry descendants, both in Canada and in the States.

Finding that within AncestryDNA, Mr. Bowman matches to C. A. (we'll 'cloak' the identity of the daughter and mother), but not to her mother P. W. (the mother is a Veaudry daughter by birth). The mother P. W. has a first cousin E. Veaudry, whom I have contacted, and he is tested within FTDNA using atDNA (called Family Finder) on my behalf, very kindly. 

I wanted to make sure he was not derived in the genetic past, of an NPE dynamic, and so I waited (months) until finally a 2nd cousin matched to him in MyHeritage, by the name of G. Veaudry. At this point I am proceeded to test E. Veaudry at the level of testing him at Y-DNA 67 markers through FTDNA. The same with G. Veaudry (soon). 

I also mentioned Margaret Bowman, the 'NPE' daughter of (Jack) John Bowman (1893-1973) who was placed into an Orphanage in ca. 1911 subsequent to her birth. I detected genetically-speaking, within AncestryDNA, this woman's grandson Jerry. He has, with his mother C. J. and her brother W. J., tested on my behalf. They all match the descendants of Lewis Bowman Sr. and Alice VanAntwerp; solidly and without question, Margaret (nee: Bowman) born in 1911, is the abandoned daughter, of John (Jack) Bowman, before he had married to Katherine (nee: Gray). Katherine had married previously to Dwight Ritchie in 1907 (Hampshire County, MA), and then to John's brother Jesse Elmer Bowman in Dec. 1911. She divorced Jesse in Nov. 1917, whereupon she at some point, remarried a third time to John Bowman. 

W. J. has done an AncestryDNA (as has his sister C. W.) including atDNA "Family Finder" testing within FTDNA. But it is through AncestryDNA, that W. J. matches to P. W. (C. J.'s mother of the Veaudry lineage). It's only 10. something cM (centimorgans) of a match, and yet W. J. doesn't match to C. A. interestingly enough. This is probably due to the low centimorgan amount due to recombination dynamics at the time of conception. 

W. J.'s sister C. J.'s doesn't match to either C. A. or her mother P. W. at all. Again, this is due to recombination at the time of C. J.'s conception I surmise. Yet, the fact that Bowman descendants are matching genetically, even at a small amount of cM, with this particular Veaudry line, contrary to that of Mr. P. Vaudry, is very interesting, and I am further exploring this matter, by testing E. Veaudry and his 2nd cousin G. Veaudry using FTDNA and AncestryDNA's autosomal testing.

So, while Margaret (Marge Bruchac) Kennick, may assume, declare and conclude, that (quote) my "DNA testing of her Bowman relative's, is in itself fake" and that my "claims of having data on people who have never given samples" and Jesse Bruchac (her nephew, by way of being the son of Joseph Edward Bruchac III and Carol (nee: Worthen) claiming that "the Haplogroup R1b is somehow "Native American" is quite a foolish position to assume, considering that both of them and Joe Bruchac III are seemingly intelligent, and obviously college-educated.

The Bruchac's are claiming that the TRUTH is a lie, and that their lies are the truth.

"In her [Margaret Bruchac] extensive work with North American tribal nations—including repatriation of objects in museum collections—Margaret Bruchac, who is of Abenaki descent, says she “crosses back and forth” between Indigenous communities and anthropological researchers."

Marge Bruchac, "who is of Abenaki descent" Sept. 2018 Penn State University Article

Another "Ward Churchill" without the sunglasses?

The genetic and genealogical research does indeed continue, both regarding the Phelps/Phillips lineage of Franklin and Chittenden County, Vermont, as well as the Bowman/Bruchac lineage of Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York.