Hendrick theyanoguin biography of rory
Hendrick Theyanoguin
Mohawk leader (c.
Hendrick theyanoguin biography of rory hamilton: He also informed them that a French agent one of the Joncaire brothers was spreading rumours among the Iroquois that the English were planning to destroy the Indians. Exit reader mode. Photo Above: Henderick Peters Theyanooguin King Hendrick , wearing the English coat he wore on public occasions and his distinctive facial tattoo. Retrieved
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Not to be confused with Hendrick Tejonihokarawa.
Hendrick Theyanoguin (c.&#; – September 8, ), whose name had several spelling variations, was a Mohawk leader[1] and member of the Bear Clan.[2] He resided at Canajoharie or the Upper Mohawk Castle in colonial New York.
He was a Speaker for the Mohawk Council. Hendrick formed a close alliance with Sir William Johnson, the Superintendent of Indian affairs in North America.
Until the late 20th century, Hendrick's biography was conflated with an older Mohawk leader given the same first name in baptism, Hendrick Tejonihokarawa (also known as Hendrick Peters) (c.
– c.
Hendrick theyanoguin biography of rory anderson According to historian Eric Hinderaker, artist William Williams painted a portrait of Hendrick in in Philadelphia, and this engraving may be based on that lost painting. In , in part to honor his old friend, Sir William Johnson paid for the building of the Anglican Church at Canajoharie, on land donated by the Brant family. On this occasion King George II presented him with a court costume — a blue coat with gold lace and a cocked hat. The War of the Spanish Succession —13 , however, brought pressure on the Iroquois from the English to join the fight against the French.). The latter was a member of the Wolf Clan (an important difference, as shown by the historian Barbara Sivertsen) and based in Tiononderoge, the Lower Castle, closer to the English base in Albany. The English built Fort Hunter in Tionondaga in with an Anglican mission. The Mohawk village became mostly Christianized early in the eighteenth century.
Biography
Theyanoguin was born c.&#; to a Mohawk noblewoman and a Mohican chief in Westfield, Massachusetts. By the Mohawk matrilineal kinship system, he was considered born into his mother's Bear Clan. Hereditary offices and property are passed through the maternal line and the mother's oldest brother plays a prominent role in her children's lives, especially for boys.
The uncle is more important than the biological father.
This system allowed the Mohawk to adopt and assimilate war captives into the tribe, absorbing them as Mohawk. Theyanoguin was baptized as "Hendrick" by Godfridius Dellius of the Dutch Reformed Church in The English referred to him as Hendrick Peters or King Hendrick.
At some point, Theyanoguin resettled at Canajoharie, one of two major Mohawk towns by the early 18th century.
Both were located on the south side of the Mohawk River. European colonists referred to it as the "Upper Castle", in the Mohawk River valley upriver and west of Schenectady. Theyanoguin became a chief of the Mohawk Bear clan and would have participated in the Mohawk Council. He was not one of the fifty League sachems of the Iroquois Grand Council, made up of representatives of the Five Nations (six, after the Tuscarora were admitted in ).
Theyanoguin worked to continue the alliance with the English to preserve Mohawk and Iroquois interests in New York. They depended more on diplomacy than warfare, and tried to preserve neutrality during the English-French rivalries and conflicts of the colonial years.
In , Theyanoguin led a delegation of Mohawks to a conference with the Governor of New France, Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, at Montreal.
On their return journey, they stopped at Isle La Motte and attacked a group of Frenchmen collecting timber, killing one and taking another prisoner before returning to Albany.
Hendrick theyanoguin biography of rory and dean When his horse was shot from under him, the Mohawk leader was left at a great disadvantage since he was old and corpulent. He holds a belt of wampum in his left hand. Theyanoguin visited New France in but as a Protestant he dissuaded other chiefs from settling there. While the English and their Indian allies were there, word came that a French force under Dieskau was approaching and was expected to attack Fort Edward, at the southern end of the portage to the Hudson River.That spring, Theyanoguin led a war party to the St. Lawrence near Montreal, which was repulsed by the French, though attempts to capture Theyanoguin were unsuccessful.
During the French and Indian War (the North American theater of the Seven Years' War, ), Theyanoguin led a group of Mohawk warriors to accompany William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, through the Hudson Valley in his expedition to Crown Point.
In Theyanoguin made a speech to the governor of New York saying: "Brother, by and by you will expect to see the Nations (the Six Nations of the Iroquois) down here" (i.e. in New York). Contemporary newspapers and broadsheets made much of the fear of this threat.
Theyanoguin was killed at the Battle of Lake George on September 8, , on a mission to stop the southern advance of the French army; he was bayonetted after his horse was shot dead.[8]
Sir William Johnson established an Anglican mission in Canajoharie in , when he paid for the Indian Castle Church to be built nearby.
This was several years before the American Revolutionary War. Today it has been designated as part of the Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. A mission was established earlier in the century at Fort Schuyler on Schoharie Creek.
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Hendrick theyanoguin biography of rory In June a delegation of 17 Mohawks led by Theyanoguin confronted Governor George Clinton and announced that their people were so dissatisfied with their treatment by New York that they were ending the longstanding Mohawk treaty of friendship with the colony. He was among the Mohawks of Tiononderoge the Lower Castle , who were swindled out of their lands along the Mohawk by their colonial neighbors. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. King Hendrick , whose death in battle and burial place are memorialized in almost forgotten ground along the highway between Glens Falls and Lake George Village, was already famous at the time of the Bloody Morning Scout the same attack that claimed the life of Ephraim Williams, founder of Williams College.LCCN&#;
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University of Toronto Press. Like most biographies written before early 21st-century research distinguished between the leaders, this entry conflates the two Hendricks
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