Edith turner biography
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Edith Turner
Leader of the Nottoway (c.
Edith turner biography
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For the English-American anthropologist, poet, and educator, see Edith Turner (anthropologist).
Edith Turner (ca. – February or March ), sometimes known as Edy Turner or Edie Turner, or by her personal name Wané Roonseraw, was a leader – often styled "chief" or "queen"[1] – among the Nottoway people of Virginia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Life
Turner lived in Southampton County, Virginia, and had been active in land transactions since ,[2] although her name first appears on a petition to the Virginia General Assembly dating to , marking her earliest appearance in the historical record.[3] She married one William Green, who appears to have been a non-Indian,[3] in [4] A tribal census of listed her employments as "knitting, sewing, and what is usual in common housewifery", and stated that she had two black workers hired for her by white trustees.[4]