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From: Herbert Arkin <>
Subject: [NCROOTS] Modac-Ap-Owen-Gwinneth in Virginia
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 09:26:09 -0400

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>I found a great Web page on line "the making of America" the book is
>titled: "History of Virginia" on page 788,and I quote.....
>An Ancient chronicle of Wales records,"that a civil war having
>occurred in that kingdom,upon the death of king Owen Gwinneth,between
>his two sons,respecting the succession to the crown, the unsuccessful
>one, in a fit of disgust and chargin, put to sea on new discoveries,
>and sailing from some port in Spain,he discovered a new world of
>signal beauty and uninhabited. Upon his return,he transported , form
>his native mountains, a large number people,thither with him in three
>several voyages. the name of this adventous young prince was
>MODAC-Ap-Owen-GWINNETH, and among the places he discovered was
>VIRGINIA".Modern travelers are said to have meant with British words
>in North America, and an old author informs us that the people of
>Virginia and Guatemala were accustom to celebrate the memory of one
>MODAC, a illustrious and ancient hero.
> In the year 1727, Colonel William Byrd, a man of note in the
>colony of Virginia,visited the Tuscarora Indians of Carolina, and
>among them he heard this tradition concerning MODAC. He records in
>his journal, with apparent confidence, in its truth,the account of
>MORGAN JONES a Welsh minister,who, at New York,in the year
>1685,certifies,that in 1660,he accompanied in capacity of chaplain,
>Major General Bennet of Nandsemund, county,Virginia, in an expedition
>to Carolina,where by chance he fell prisoner into a tribe of Indians
>called Doegs, who he avers, spoke WELCH language, and he had the
>satisfaction of preaching to them three times a week , for four
>months, in the same
> tongue. They were seated on the Pontigo ( now Pamlico) river not far
>from Cape Hatteras. This deponent further offer to conduct any person
>who might doubt his statement to the place, and there convinece,his
>credituality by ocular or rather auricular
>demonstration.(Burk's history of Virginia,vol 3 pag. 84)
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>And there is much more you need to read.....the site is called "Making
>of America",read about changing it to text on first page.Go to
>search(many family names) and type in surnames,it will show how many
>times that name is in the book or journal.
>http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/moa/
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