Niketti is a common ancestor of our ancestor Martha Venable and of her second cousins, Sergeant Charles Floyd and Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor who both traveled on the Lewis & Clark Expedition. It is possible that these latter 2 were chosen for the expedition in part because of their Indigenous American family ties.
The following 2 references detail the lineage from Niketti to Martha’s grandfather Abraham Venable I.
From: Frederick Bittle Kegley. “Virginia Frontier.” Southwest Virginia Historical Society, Botecourt County, Virginia, 1938, p. 23:
The Settlements Along the James Move West: …up to this time (1721), the land from the Falls of the James to the mountains belonged to the Indians. In advance of the settlements there lived in this region a noted Scotchman by the name of Hughes who hunted and traded with the Indians and finally married one of their number, the Princess Nicketti, a daughter of a younger sister of Pocahontas and granddaughter of Powhatan. A child of Nicketti’s, Elizabeth Hughes, married NATHANIEL DAVIS and her children and grandchildren became the ancestors of many prominent families of middle and Southwest Virginia. Her daughter, Mary, married Samuel Burks, her daughter, Martha, married Abraham Venable, Jr.; another daughter, Abadiah, married William Floyd and became the mother of John Floyd, asst. to Col. William Preston of Fincastle and Montgomery Counties.”
From: Johnson, Patricia Givens. “Irish Burks of Colonial Virginia and New River.” Blacksburg, VA, Walpa Publishing, 1992, p 19:
“All following is proven: Samuel Burk of Goochland/ md. Mary Davis; Mary was daughter of Nathaniel Davis/Elizabeth Hughes; Elizabeth Hughes was daughter of _____Hughes/Nicketti; Nicketti was daughter of Cleopatre/Cayuga Chief. Cleopatre was living with Opechancanough, who Brown, “Cabells and Kin,” says is Nicketti’s father. Kegley, “Virginia Frontier,” says Nicketti is the granddaugher of Powhatan. Cleopatre was sister of Pocahontas.” The children of Elizabeth Hughes and Nathaniel Davis are named as Martha Davis md. Abraham Venable, Mary Davis b. 1685 md. Samuel Burk, Robert Davis, Sr. md. Abadiah Lewis (*Note says “Venables of Virginia”, p. 19, says she is the daughter of Hugh ap Lewis and their son is Robert Davis, II. Other genealogies differ in this.)”
Child of Trader Hughes and Nicketti is:
i. Elizabeth Hughes, born 1655 in Virginia; died Unknown; married Nathaniel Davis Abt. 1675 in Jamestown Virginia.
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