He was adopted by the tribe and wed an Indian girl. Their daughter married an Indian captive named Adam Brown. Adam Brown was captured by the Wyandot Indians as a child in Virginia. After marrying the Shawnee girl, he went on to become a chief of the Wyandot tribe. Their granddaughter was Quindaro Brown.
Historians disagree on the meaning of the first name.
While Quindaro Brown was growing up with the Wyandots in Ohio, Dayton-born Abelard Guthrie was serving throughout Mexico with the U.S. Indian service in the Mexican war. He returned to Ohio, where in the early 1840's he was an official of the U.S. Land office at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. But for some unexplained reason, his appointment was not renewed. He was without a job. He fell in love with Quindaro Brown.