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PAXIKOS PAYAYA 



217 



(1674) quoted bv Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 2, 

 118, 1848. 



Faxinos. A Minisink and subsequently 

 a Shawnee chief of the 17th and 18th 

 centuries. He appears first in history in 

 1680, when as sachem of the Minisink 

 he sent 40 men to join the Mohawk in an 

 expedition against the French, and 10 

 years later was sent by his tribe to confer 

 with Gov. Dongan of New York in regard 

 to engaging in the war against the same 

 nation. About 1692 or 1694 a small body 

 of Shawnee settled among the Munsee, of 

 whom the Minisink formed a division, 

 and possibly Paxinos may have been 

 one of this party. He was married about 

 1717. As early at least as 1754 he is re- 

 ferred to as the "old chief" of the Shaw- 

 nee (Loskiel, Miss. United Breth., pt. 2, 

 157-160, 1794), and is so designated in 

 the New York Colonial Documents wher- 

 ever referred to. Heckewelder (Ind. Na- 

 tions, 88, 1876), contirmed by Brinton, 

 also says he was the chief of the Shaw- 

 nee. He removed from Minisink to the 

 Delaware country, but at what date is 

 unknown, his next appearance being in 

 connection with the difficulties which 

 grew out of the removal of the Dela- 

 wares to Wyoming, Pa. After the death, 

 in 1749, of Shekellimus, the father of Lo- 

 gan, who had been a friend of the Mora- 

 vian missionaries, the latter were fortu- 

 nate in gaining the friendship of Paxinos. 

 In 1754 he, with Tedyuskung, warned the 

 people of Gnadenhuetten to remove to 

 Wajomick (Wyoming), Pa.; but for this 

 their lives would have been in danger. 

 The next year Paxinos renewed the warn- 

 ing and demanded an answer in the name 

 of the Hurons. His wife, for whom he had 

 great affection and to whom he had been 

 married for 38 years, was converted and 

 baptized with Paxinos' consent. Soon 

 after his last visit the Moravian settle- 

 ment at Shamokin was attacked, and 

 hearing of the danger to which the mis- 

 sionary Kiefer was exposed, Paxinos sent 

 his two sons to conduct him to a place of 

 safety. He was present with chiefs of 

 other tribes at Ft Johnson, N. Y., Apr. 

 15-19, 1757, in conference with Sir Wm. 

 Johnson regarding lines of travel and 

 trade (N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vii, 245-47, 

 1856), and also at the conference with 

 Gov. Denny at Easton, Pa., in August of 

 the same year (ibid., 316-20). Paxinos 

 removed with his family to Ohio in 1755 

 or 1758, where his tribesmen joined in 

 the war against the English. It is prob- 

 able that he died shortly after this time. 

 He left two sons, Kolapeka and Teata- 

 percaum, the latter a chief of some note 

 in the war of 1764 (Ruttenber, Tribes 

 Hudson R., 306, 1872). His name is 

 given in various forms, as Paxihos, Paxi- 



nosa, Paxnos, Paxnous, Paxowan, Pax- 

 sinos, etc. (c. t. ) 



Fazpili. A former Chumashan village 

 near Purfsima mission, Santa Barbara 

 CO., Cal. 



Axpitil.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 

 Paxpili. — Ibid. 



Paya. A rancheria, probably Cochimi, 

 under Purfsima (Cadegomo) mission, 

 Lower California, in the 18th century. 

 Emetgale axa cang. — Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., v, 

 189, 1857 («g. 'great trees of the white earth'). 

 Paya.— Ibid. 



Payabya ('pushed aside'). An Oglala 

 band under Young-man-afraid. 

 Pa-a'-bi-a. — Hayden, Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. 

 Val., 376, 1862 (trans, 'those who camp at the 

 end'). Pa-ha-hi'-a. — Ibid. Payabya. — Robinson 

 (1879) quoted by Dorsey in loth Rep. B. A. E., 

 220, 1897 (sig. 'pushed aside'). Payabyeya. — 

 Cleveland (1884) quoted by Dorsey, ibid. 



Payanmin. A Costanoan village sit- 

 uated in 1819 within 10 m. of Santa Cruz 

 mission, Cal. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 Apr. 5, 1860. 



Pay ay a. A prominent Coahuiltecan 

 tribe living in the latter part of the 17th 

 century on San Antonio r., Texas. In 

 1691 Father Massanet, when on his way 

 to E. Texas, passed through their village, 

 which was then apparently near the site 

 of the present city of San Antonio. 

 There he erected an altar, and, through 

 a Pacpul interpreter, explained the Chris- 

 tian doctrine. For the native name of 

 their stream, Yana guana, he substituted 

 the Christian name San Antonio de 

 Padua. As early as 1706 some of the 

 Payaya were baptized at San Francisco 

 Solano mission, on the Rio Grande, and 

 this was one of the principal tribes for 

 which Father Olivares founded San An- 

 tonio de Valero mission in 1718. They 

 ranged at least from the Rio Grande to 

 the Brazos. In 1716 Espinosa met them 

 near the latter stream, and in 1717 Der- 

 banne met them near the San Marcos 

 (Colorado?). According to Rivera,writing 

 in 1727, their most usual home was near 

 the Medina, on an arroyo bearing the 

 tribal name. At San Antonio de Valero 

 mission the Payaya mingled particularly 

 with the Xarame, who had been moved 

 with the mission from the Rio Grande. 

 These two tribes were the most constant 

 inhabitants at the mission, and members 

 of both were there as late as 1776 (Mas- 

 sanet, Diario, 1691, MS. in Mem. de 

 Nueva Espana, xxvii, 95; Teran, De- 

 scripcion y Diaria Demarcacion, 1691, 

 MS., ibid., 28; Olivares, Carta, 1716, MS., 

 ibid., 169; Derbanne, 1717, in Margry, 

 D^c, VI, 206, 1886; Rivera, 1727, Diario, 

 leg. 1957, 1736; Baptismal Records of 

 San Antonio de Valero mission, MS., 

 passim). (h. e. b.) 



Paia. — Baptismal Rec. San Antonio de Valero, 

 1718, MS. Paiaia.— Ibid., 1716. Paialla.— Ibid., 

 17'20. Paiaya.— Ibid., 1718. Paillailles.— Der- 

 banne (1717) in Margry, D6c., vi, 206, 1886. Pay- 



