during the revolution, and died CORN1816, at the age of one hundred and ten years.

PLANTER was trader.

a

Seneca half-breed, his father being a Dutch

RED JACKET was a full-blooded Seneca.

Both were

distinguished for their eloquence, and both were engaged in the border wars of the revolution as inveterate enemies of the colo nists. The former died in 1836, at the age of one hundred and one years, and the latter in 1830, aged about ninety years. PASSACONNAWAY, who was at the head of the Pennacooks

discovery, was one of the most distinguished " His Indian nations. name," says Schoolcraft,

at the time of the

men of the

" is indicative of his warlike character

Papisseconewa, as writ ten by himself, meaning The Child of the Bear." first hear of him in 1627 or 8. Thomas Morton, in his New

We

Eng

lish

time

Canaan, thus speaks of him, being :

in

this

country at that " That Sachem or is a Powah of Sagamore great estima

amongst all kind of salvages, there hee is at their Revels (which is the time when a greate company of salvages meete from several parts of the country, in amity with their neighbors), tion

hath advanced his honor in his feats or jugling tricks (as I may right tearme them], to the admiration of the spectators, whom

hee endeavored to perswade that hee would goe under water to the further side of a river to broade for any man to undertake