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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Charles OBeal



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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: Unknown

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: Unknown

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Seneca indians

Notes: Seneca chief, signed 1837 Remonstrance of Chiefs and 1838 letter to PYM. Also signed 1826 agreement at Buffalo Creek. Cornplanter’s son and Handsome Lake’s nephew. Charles and his older half-brother Henry—who could read and write, knew some English, and had lived in Philadelphia and New York for a few years—often acted as assistants to their father and uncle.

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