Beyond Penn's Treaty
Other Names: None
Assumed Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1788
Birth Place: Quebec
Death Date: 1858
Death Place: Unknown
Affiliations: Episcopalian Church , Mohawk indians
Notes: Canadian clergyman and missionary of Mohawk descent. In 1817, was appointed to be a missionary to the Oneida people in upstate New York. In 1820 and 1821, led delegations of Native Americans to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they secured a cession of land from the Menominee and Winnebago tribes in the Fox River Valley at Little Chute and along Duck Creek. Published tracts and a spelling book in the Iroquois language and translated the Book of Common Prayer into Iroquois. In 1839 began to make the claim that he was the French Lost Dauphin, but openly became a pretender in the 1850s.
Author of:
No documents found.
Mentioned in:
Author of:
No documents found.
Mentioned in: