From: "Peg Gordon" 
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:08:41 -0600
To: PIKE-DNA-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [PIKE-DNA] John Pike DNA test results

Hi

Am I the first to post to this list?  I have been very excited that my brother, John Pike, Kit #24697 and Earl Pike, Kit #28267 have matched 24 of 25 markers.
This indicates that there is a relationship. Earl has his pedigree back to John Pike, "the First" of the Bay Colony. 

You know how family "traditions" are - if you have the same surname as someone famous in history, the family says you are related!  When I started genealogy research, I found that my East Texas cousins all stated that we were related to General Zebulon M Pike and CSA General Albert Pike.  

I have a letter written by William T Hartsfield, grandson of Samuel M(erritt) Pike.  William's father was killed during Civil War and William, his mother and sister lived in the household of his grandfather, Samuel M Pike. The letter was written to a younger cousin who asked about the Pike family.

William T Hartsfield wrote: ". . .Grandpa had an uncle who was a prize fighter. He would challenge champions of other states. Meet on the state line and foght for the purse.
    Another of grandpa's uncles was a professional wrestler.  He also would challenge champions of other states.  He would stand, toe-the-mark, and make forty five (45) feet in three(3) leaps."

 Since we have had the match with Earl, I have gone back to reading the book, "The Family of John Pike of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635-1995" by Allen Raymond Pike.

On Page 102-103 #198 Bennett Pike  "He resembled Henry Clay in person.  He was tall and spare and remained spare all his life; but spare as he was, he was the champion wrestler of all the country around in his youth, and many stories of his prowess are yet extant."

Maybe some of the family "tradition" stories are true.

We would still like to find more about Samuel M Pike's father, John Pike. He is listed in the 1850 Census, Henderson Co, TN with his son, Jacob Pike.  It states that John was born in NC.  Who were his parents, and where is the connection to John Pike of Bay Colony, Massachusetts?????

Look forward to having more on this list.

Peggy Pike Gordon
San Angelo, TX
gordonclan@cox.net