Lens: our readingOpen: not yet provenDisputed: argued, often by a hostile witness
Year: 1710 · Places: Georgia, Europe, Africa
SUMMARYWas the King indigenous? Test card (Nov 4, 2026). Tito: "I think that wasn't a European king. I think it was an indigenous king." RECORD, against: George III was born in London (1738) to the Hanoverian line. His own papers, about 350,000 pages of them, are digitized by the Georgian Papers Programme (Royal Archives, Windsor). There are portraits from life and Parliament's debates. The war is recorded independently by British War Office files, Hessian soldiers' diaries, French naval records, Loyalist claims, and archaeology at the battle sites. These are hostile witnesses to each other, and they agree that colonists fought Crown troops. RECORD, what the lens can stand on: the nations' leaders dealt with the Crown directly, monarch to nation: the "Four Indian Kings" at Queen Anne's court (1710), and Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) received in London (1776). Treaty protocol called the King "Father" and the nations his "children," which is kinship language, though the nations used it for alliance obligations
DISPUTEDQueen Charlotte (George III's wife) having African ancestry, argued by Mario de Valdes y Cocom through the Portuguese royal line, and contested by genealogists and historians
LENS (WW9)the Crown's protection makes more sense if there was kinship
OPENwhat would test it: the nations' own record of who they treated with, and whether any wampum or oral record calls the King kin by blood rather than by protocol. Needs deep research.