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Hi, My information on my GGG Grandmother is more complete than on my GGGGrandfather's
background. I also do not know the source of the information I have but it has been in
the family awhile. I cannot go further back on him but do have that he was born in 1778
in Coleraine, Ireland. My info has him landing in Charleston, SC in 1799 from Spain and
coming to Brunswick, GA in 1800. From there he traveled up the Little St. Mary's
River in the same year and built a log cabin in Moniac. He then went up to the Tallapoosa
near Atlanta where cousins of his were living.
My information has some of my GGGGrandmother's family, members who had settled with
the Creeks in the Tallapoosa area, also coming from Coleraine, Ireland and another is just
listed as having come from Ireland so I wonder if this is the connection but they are not
Canadays.
I next pick John Milledge Canaday, Sr. up marrying Missouri Powell in Tallahassee in
1808. She was Creek. They returned to Moniac to live. In 1814, I have him going back to
Tallapoosa and being one of about 70 Creek warriors to survive the Battle of Horse Shor (I
guess that is a typo) Bend out of about 1000. My info includes him as a Creek warrior.
From there he and a group of family and friends return to Moniac. He and Missouri are
said to have had numerous children, but the only three that my information lists are John
Milledge Canaday, Jr. and I have some on his lineage, Henery (again that may be a typo)
and James Canaday. The latter two were said to have "joined Durrance's Company
in the Seminole War of 1856, being mustered out in December of 1857, and lived below
Palatka."
John Milledge Canaday, Sr.'s headstone at Johnnycan Branch also has his Creek name,
Ossie Yahaltla.
I would love any information you have.