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for when the transports arrived not an
Indian could be found. In 1887, the In
dians trusting in truce until fall, Us
ceola was seized by strategy OF Gen.
Jessup wnen on his way to arrange q
finement in ST. Augustine was sent to
Charleston, s. c.. and imprisoned in Fort
Moultrie until his death.
Cornplanter, Famous Seneca Chief.
Cornplanter was famous Seneca chief,
also known as John O'Bail, and Is sup
posed to have been born between 1872 and
174O on the Genessee river, New York.
His nther was a white trader named
John O'Bail or O'Beel. said by some to
have been an Englishman, although
Harris buffalo Historical Society pubii-
cation, VI, 416. 1909 says he was
Dutchman named Abeel; and Ruttenber
(Tribes Hudson r., 81, 1879 also says ne
was Dutch trader. His mother was
of Cornplanter's early days is contained
in a letter to the Governor OF Pennsyi-
vania, in which he says he PLAYED with
Indian boys who remarked the diHerence
between the color of his skin and theirs;
his mother informed him that his father
resided at Albany. He visited his father.
who, it appears, treated him kindly, but
gave him nothing to carry back; nor old
he tell me-" he adds. that the United
States were about to rebel against the
he was married before this visit. He was
one of the parties to the treaty Of Fort
StanWix in 1854, when a larger cession OF
land was made by the Indians; he also
took part in the treaty OF Fort Harmar
in 17SD in which an extensive territory
was conveyed to the United states
(although his name is not among the
signers); and he was a signer of the
treaties Of September Is. 1897. and July
30, 1902. These acts rendered him SO un-
popular with his tribe that for time
his life was in danger. In 1880 he, to-
gether with Halftown. visited Philadel-
phia to lay before Gen. Washington the
grievances complained OF by their peo-
pie In 1916 he resided just within the
limits Of Pennsylvania on his grant seven
miles below the junction of the Come
wango with the Allegheny. on the banks
of the latter. He then owned l,3OO acres
of which 64O formed a tract granted to
him by Pennsylvania March Is. 1893. for
his many valuable services to the whites.
It is said that in his old asO he declared
that the Great Spirit told him not to
have anything more to do with the
whites, nor even to preserve any me-
mentos or relics they had given him. Inn
pressed with this idea, he burned the belt
and broke the elegant sword that had
been given him. A favorite SON (Henry
O'BeaD, who had been carefully educated.
trouble of Cornplanters last years. He
received from the United States for
time pension or grant OF $50 a year.
He was perhaps more than ninety years
of age at the time of his death February
Is, 1886. A monument erected to MS
memory on his reservation by the state
of Pennsylvania in 1865 bears the inscrip-
ton. Aged about 100 years.
Cornstalk, Who Was Murdered.
Cornstalk was a celebrated Shawnee
chief (born about 1920. died in IT'D who
held authority over those of the tribes
then settled on the Scioto, in Ohio. He
was brought most prominently into no.
tice by his leadership of the Indians IL
the battle of Point Pleasant, at the
Va, October 10. 1774. Although defeated
in a battle lasting throughout the day,
his prowess and generalship on this oc-
casion-where his force, mostly Shawnee.
numbering bly, 1000. was opposed
to 1.1OO Virginia volunteers-won the
praise OF the whites. After this battle
he entered into a treaty OF peace with
Lord Dunmore in November. 1174. at Chill
licothe, Ohio, although strenuously OPP
posed by a part of his tribe. and faith
fully kept it until 11T1. In the latter
year the Shawnee, being melted to renew
hostilities, he went to Point Pleasant
and notified the settlers that he might
be forced into the war. The settlers de-
tanned him and his son as hostages. and
they were soon after murdered by some
infuriated soldiers in retaliation for the
killing of a white settler by some rowing
Indians. thus arousing the Nindictive
spirit Of the Shawnee. which was not
broken until 1884 Cornstalk was not
only a brave and energetic warrier. but a
sSillfuI general and an orator OF econSid-
erable ability. monument was erected
to his memory in the courthouse yard al
Point Pleasant in 1898.
First Slain In Revolution.
Crispus Attucks, half Indian and half
negro, whose name meant small deer,
was the first person slain In the f1rst
hostile encounter between the Americans
and the British in the revolutionary war.
| In consequence monument was erecteo
to his memory in Boston common IN
1888
Leatherlips was a Huron chief OF the
Sandusky tribe whose honorable charac-
| ter and friendship for the whites unnamed
the jealousy OF Tecumseh, who ruthlessly
ordered him to be killed on the piea
| that he was a wizard. Tecumseh's fanati-
cism being so overmastering that he as
signed the execution of Shate1aronhia to
another Huron chief named Roundhead
He was apprised of his condemnation by
his brother, who was sent to him with
2 niece of bark on which tomahawk
! was drawn as a token OF MS deatn Inc
execution took pace near his camp on the
Scioto about fourteen miles north or Co
iumbus in the summer or lS!o tnere pc
ing present a number of white men. in
Guiding a Justice of the peace. who made
an effort to save the life of the accused,
but without success. He was tomahaWk-
e,i by fellow-tribesman while kneenns
beside his own grave. after having chant-
ed a death song. The Wyandot Club OF
Columbus, Ohio in 1883 erected a gran
ite monument to Shateiaronhia In park
surrounded by a stone wall, including