Welsh was definitely spoken in the hinterlands of Virginia and Pennsylvania. It would not be unusual to find the Adkins surname among those pre-existing “Welsh Indians.” Most of them later became Shawnee since that was the most powerful tribe in the region. Reply Richard Ward 9 April, 2023...
At the time of European contact, the Cherokee controlled a large area of what is now the southeastern United States. Of the southeastern Indian confederacies of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw), the Cherokee were one of the most populous and powerful...