Ephraim Webster

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1762

Birth Place: New Hampshire

Death Date: 1824

Death Place: New York

Affiliations: Unknown

Notes: First white settler in Central New York, arrived in 1786. Acted as translator and agent for the Onondaga tribe on several land treaties with the State of New York. For three decades the Onondagas trusted and relied on him, but later felt betrayed by him.

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