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CORNSTALK CORRAL 



[B. A. K, 



ties to the treaty of Ft Stanwix in 1784, 

 when a large cession of land was made 

 by the Indians; he also took part in the 

 treaty of Ft Harniar in 1789, 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 Sept. 15, 1797, and July 

 30, 1802. These acts rendered him so 

 unpopular with his tribe that for a time 

 his life was in danger. In 1790 he, to- 

 gether with Halftown, visited Philadel- 

 phia to lay before Gen. Washington the 

 grievances complained of l)y their peo- 

 ple. In 1816 he resided just within 

 the limits of Pennsylvania on his grant 

 7 m. below the junction of the Conne- 

 wango with the Allegheny, on the banks 

 of the latter. He then owned 1,800 



CORNPLANTER. (mcKennev and Hall) 



acres, of which 640 formed a tract granted 

 to him by Pennsylvania, Mar. 16, 1796, 

 "for his many valuable services to the 

 whites." It is said that in his old age he 

 declared that the "Great Spirit" told him 

 not to have anything more to do with the 

 whites, nor even to preserve any memen- 

 tos or relics they had given him. Im- 

 pressed with this idea, he burned the l)elt 

 and broke the elegant sword that had 

 been given him. A favorite son (Henry 

 Obeal), who had been carefully educated, 

 became a drunkard, thus adding to the 

 troubles of Cornplanter's last years. He 

 received from the United States, for a 

 time, a pension or grant of $250 per year. 

 He was perhaps more than 90 years of age 

 at the time of his death, Feb. 18, 1836. 

 A monument erected to his memory on 

 his reservation by the state of Pennsyl- 



vania in 1866 bears the inscription "aged 

 about 100 years." (c. t. ) 



Cornstalk. A celebrated Shawnee chief 

 (born about 1720, died in 1777) who held 

 authority over those of the tribe then set- 

 tled on the Scioto, in Ohio. He was 

 brought most prominently into notice by 

 his leadership of the Indians in the bat- 

 tle of Point Pleasant, at the mouth of 

 Great Kanawha r., W. Va., Oct. 10, 1774. 

 Although defeated in a battle lasting 

 throughout the day, his prowess and gen- 

 eralship on this occasion — where his force, 

 mostly Shawnee, numbering probably 

 1,000, was opposed to 1,100 Virginia vol- 

 unteers — won the praise of the whites. 

 After this battle he entered into a treaty 

 of peace with Lord Dunmore in Nov., 

 1774, at Chillicothe, Ohio, although stren- 

 uously opposed by a part of his tribe, and 

 faithfully kept it until 1777. In the lat- 

 ter year the Shawnee, being incited to re- 

 new hostilities, he went to Point Pleasant 

 and notified the settlers that he might be 

 forced into the war. The settlers detained 

 him and his son as hostages, and they 

 were soon after murdered by some in- 

 furiated soldiers in retaliation for the 

 killing of a white settler l)y some roving 

 Indians, thus arousing the vindictive 

 spirit of the Shawnee, which was not 

 broken until 1794. Cornstalk was not 

 only a brave and energetic warrior, but 

 a skilful general and an orator of consid- 

 erable ability. A monument was erected 

 to his memory in the court-house yard at 

 Point Pleasant in 1896. 



Cornstalk's Town. A Shawnee village 

 on Scippo cr., opposite Squaw Town, 

 Pickawav co., Ohio, nearlv due s. from 

 Circleville, in 1774.— Howe, Hist. Coll. 

 Ohio, 402, 1896. 



Corn Village. A former Natchez settle- 

 ment. 



Corn Village.— Gayarre, La., I, 411, 1851. Flour 

 Village. — Dumont In French, Hist. Coll. La., V, 

 48, 1853. 



CorodeguacM. A former Opata pueblo 

 on the headwaters of the Rio Sonora, n. 

 E. Sonora, Mexico, about 25 m. below the 

 boundary of Arizona. It was the seat of 

 the Spanish mission of Santa Rosa, 

 founded in 1653, and of the presidio of 

 Fronteras, established in 1690. In 1689 

 the mission was abandoned on account of 

 the hostilities of the Jocome, Suma, 

 Jano, and Apache; and owing to Apache 

 depredations in more recent years the 

 settlement was deserted by its inhabitants 

 on several occasions, once as late as about 

 1847. (f. w. h.) 



Corodeguachi. —Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 354, 

 1889. Santa Rosa Corodeguatzi.— Doc. of 18th cent, 

 quoted by Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 

 529, 1892. Santa Rosa de Coradeguatzi.— Orozco y 

 Berra, Geog., 343, 1834. 



Corral. A rancheria of gentile Diegue- 

 iios near San Diego, s. Oal., in 1775. 



