Arizona republican., 1901-08-19
A soUAW OF ROYAL BIRTH.
Descendant of King Philip Lives an
 Eventful Life.

Chiffon has the distinction of harbor- ing within its limits the oldest resident of Calumet county and direct de- scendant of King Philip, of coloniai fame. The person who lays claim to this royal prerogative Is Mrs. Catherine Stanton. a full blooded Nyantic Indian woman. She is of very great age prob ably about 90 years. although some de- clare that she has passed the century mark. She is certainly what she claims, a descendant of the great lndian sachem. and a genealogy of her famliy from the time of Ninegret, the chief or the Nyantics, and son-in-law or Phillp, corroborates her assertion. In her own words it is thus:
 Nnegret had, among other children, a son named Charles Augustus. who m turn had a son styled by his people as Great Harry Great Harry had son named Christopher, who was the father | of second Christopher and daughter named Catherine, who was my grand mother Catherine was my fathers mother and her brother Christopher had two children Augustus and Mary, ] the latter being my mother. So l am
  | law of Philip, on both my fathers and my mothers aide, end consequently l claim an undoubted relationship to Ninegret." It will be observed that she ] is descended rot from son of Philip, i but from his daughter.
 | As the descendants of Ninegret. she | is one of the few claimants to large tract of land reserved by him about the 1 time of King Philips war One portion | of this reservation was thirty miles of water frontage, ten rods above high water mark. There his people might 1 fish undisturbsd, and that Ninegret ex- ] ercised wisdom and foresight in the se- l lection of his reservation Is apparent | from the fact that the site is now occu- pied by one of the largest and most fashionable simmer resorts in the east. | King Philips war. So destructive to | the Narragansetts. left the remaining few of the tribe homeless and destitute, and Ninegret, seeing ,he distress of his kinsmen, allowed them to settle upon his land. Here. undisturbed. the rem nant of Philips people increased to such an extent that. in sheer self de- fense. Nlnegret was forced to invoke the aid of the state in removing them. Soon, however, Ninegret died, and his followers left the reservation. Thus the Narragansetts, returning, took complete possession, and eventually sold the land. Still the descendants of Ninegret were the real claimants, and Mrs. stanton, believing herself to be the sole heir. communicated with the Rhode Island authorities, with the re- suit that she was offered the sum of $iOO.OOOOoO on condition that she re-
 inquish all claims to the land, As it chanced. however, other and nearer heirs sprang up, and they objecting to such disposition of the property. ap- pealed to the national government If their claim is allowed. as in all proba- bilty 1t will be. the old lady will come into possession of q fortune befitting her royal lineage.
 From infancy to the age of g years she lived with her family on the reser- vation. receiving not only the common school education or it's equivalent. but lentering New York high school for h. dians as well.
 | In her youthful days, among her peo-
 
 civilization. Missionaries had come among them, churches. singing schools. prayer meetings and social functions of various kinds were common. The day of the wild. utterly untaught savage had passed, and. although many of the customs were still extant. the native language and dress had practically dis
 appeared.
 After leaving school Mrs. Stanton, or
 Catherine Ross as her name then was,
 entered the service of daughter of
 Senator Dickson as housekeeper, in
 which capacity she remained until her
 employer left for Europe.
 Returning to her nome among the h. . dians, she married Cato stanton in 1S44,
 emigrating the following year to what is now the city of Canton. in Wiscon- sin. It was in January, 1s45, that they arrived at their new home and erected : a rude dwelling of logs close to the north bank of the Manitowoc river
 There alone in the barren, desolate waste of forest miles away from any
 settlement, and not even the rudiments
 of a path to guide them, they lived
 through that first winter. subsistine
 mainly upon unground corn and pota- toes, for no mill was anywhere near. In the spring MT. stanton, with the
 help of men brought from Brotherton , erected small grst mill. temporary f and indifferent affair, though ie enabled I them to supply flour for themselves ant , settlers that came in the next few , years.
 For some time their log cabin was tbt
 only dwelling between Manitowoc ant
 Broi oiherton, and often parties goini
 through would stop thsrc and to th'
 eternal credit of these two members o = an outcast and despised race be it sai' that never was a man'turned from thei
 door, whether he was rich or poor, goot , or bad.
 ' Mrs. Stanton Is remarkably keen ant U alert for one of her advanced age. Sh'
 is possessed of more than the averag
 intelligence, and that her education wal
 not neglected her conversation ampl. . nftpstc