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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Si-gwa-ah-doh-gwih



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Other Names: Little Beard

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: Unknown

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1806

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Seneca indians

Notes: A Seneca Chief who fought for England during the Revolutionary War. After participating in the Cherry Valley Massacre of 1778, Little Beard's powerful and eponymous town was destroyed by the Sullivan Expedition a year later. Active in later Seneca land treaties, such as the Treaty of Canandaigua (1794) and the Treaty of Big Tree (1797).

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