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38. Joseph LATHAM (3)(4) (6) was born in 1704 in Bridgewater, Mass.. He died in 1800 in on the Chickasaw Indian Reservation. He was an Indian brave. According to C. Maddox, he is a 5th generation of Mayflower descent. Some historians claim that Joseph never married while others claim that he married a Chickasaw Indian maiden and went renegade by living among the Indians the rest of his life. Some historians believe that Joseph and Sukawanny had 10 sons and 2 daughters who all took Indian names and lived as Chickasaws.
He was married to Sukawanny Raintree in 1724 in the camp of Chief Yellow Bear near the. Sukawanny Raintree(4) (3)(6) was a housewife/mother/squaw. Loosely translated Sukawanny means the beautiful one in Chickasaw.