Col. Isaac Titsworth describes in the Knoxville Journal in 1795 "that the Indians initially kidnapped three of my children, one of John Titsworth's, and a negro." The next day, "They killed and scalped one of my children, and wounded and scalped another of mine, and one of John Titsworth's."

Circumstantially it is likely that Col. Titsworth adopted the scalped child of his slain brother, John (whose name was actually Jan). Since my family's oral history says that my GGG Grandfather was the scalped, toddler survivor of an Indian massacre in Tennessee at that time, and that he was adopted by someone named Titsworth, the adopted child of John might be my GGG Grandfather. The records show that Col. Isaac was married thrice and had nine children, but there's no reference to any of them being adopted.

I don't know my GGGG's first name but he apparently married a "Spanish" lady named Alvados. They had a son, Dr. Alvados Titsworth, who married my GG Grandmother Cordelia Husband.

Grateful if anyone might know the name of John's scalped son, if he was adopted by Col. Isaac, and anything else about him.