Comment on Meaurroway-Goes Straight Does Right STRAIGHT TAIL by sjarvis223

I’m sorry but this is untrue. Mitha listed in Richard Parker’s will was not the mother of any of his children. They married later in life and she had three previous husbands. She also didn’t have the surname “straight tail”. The Mitha whom Parker married was born Micha/Michal HARRIS. She shows up in the will of one of her sons from a previous marriage as Micha Parker (also in Henrico). It’s the same woman. She wasn’t Shawnee. She was English. The only “source” for her being Shawnee is from this Greene author and he doesn’t list any primary sources. Just family legends.
Think about it- Why would a Shawnee woman be in Southern Virginia in the 1600s?!