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Ohio, the beautiful.

The other day, I when to a Ohio state park. it was beautiful. I was very sad that day though, so I didn’t enjoy it as much as I could’ve on a good day :(

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John Popnehonnowwah alias Kunkapot his mark and seal

Mohican. Pophnehonnuhwoh, later known as Konkapot, was Sachem of the Mohican, residing on homelands that stretched across parts of the places known today as Western Massachusetts and Eastern New York.

This document details a conveyance of land along the Housatonic River in Mohican homelands in what is identified in the document as “Hampshire County [Massachusetts].”

Konkapot fought on the side of the British as a captain in King George’s War, was instrumental in transitioning his community to the Christian mission at Stockbridge, and died a generation or so before the Mohican were removed to New York (then to Wisconsin).

Tanneyarh his mark

Presumably Mohawk, with connections to Mohican and Schaghticoke, Tanneyarh’s mark appears here on a transfer of land at present-day Schenectady where he is identified as a sachem of Kannesyoharre (today spelled Canajoharie). Tanneyarh’s homelands exist in parts of so-called “Upstate New York” along the Mohawk River. This deed, written in Dutch, outlines land “situated on the north side of the Magauge River.. And up the river to the Kanide Kills, near the flats…” (place names spelled as they appear in the deed). The land transferred for “155 pieces of 8” a value that is exceedingly hard to quantify in today’s dollars, but could perhaps be the equivalent of a few thousand (2,000-3,000) dollars today.

If you have more information about Tanneyarh to help us to update this caption, please let us know in the comments!

Sauseekhoot his Mark & Seal

Mohican. Identified in this document with others as “Indian Planters” of Housatunnock [sic], their homelands in and around the areas known commonly today as “Berkshire County,” parts of “Hampshire County, Massachusetts,” and beyond. This document conveys land which includes what is today called Monterey, Massachusetts, and is bounded on the east by the Farmington River and on the west by so-called Sheffield, Massachusetts, on the Housatonic River.

Sauseekhoot’s mark appears alongside the marks of several others, including John Pophnehonawah or Konkapot, Sachem of the Mohican through the early to mid 18th century.

Annowwaumoummuhgseet his mark and seal

Mohican. Identified in this document with others as “Indian Planters” of Housatunnock [sic], their homelands in and around the areas known commonly today as “Berkshire County,” parts of “Hampshire County, Massachusetts,” and beyond. This document conveys land bounded on the east by the Farmington River and on the west by so-called “Sheffield, Massachusetts, on the Housatonic River.

Annowwaumoummughseet’s mark appears alongside the marks of several others, including John Pophnehonawah or Konkapot, Sachem of the Mohican through the early to mid 18th century.

The original document signed on June 2, 1737. This is a later copy.