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TEHATA TEHORAGWANEQEN 



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Teharonhiawagon for his works, bless- 

 ings, and goodness, which have been en- 

 joyed by the people. See Mythology, 

 Nanahozho, Tawiskaroit. (j. N. b. h.) 



Tehata (probably Cora teint or tedta, 

 'man.' — Brinton). A former settlement 

 of the Nevome of Sonora, Mexico, neigh- 

 bors of the Basiroa, who lived e. of the 

 Huvaguere and Tehuizo, who in turn 

 resided about 8 leagues e. of Tepahue. — 

 Orozco y Berra, Geog., 58, 1864. 



Tehauremet. An unidentified tribe or 

 village of which Joutel (Margry, Dec, 

 III, 288, 1878) learned from the Ebahamo 

 as being n. e. of Maligne (Colorado) r. of 

 Texas. 



Tearemetes.— Barcia, Ensayo, 271, 1723. Theare- 

 mets. — Jimtel in French, Hist. Coll. La., I, 162, 

 1846. Theauremets.— Ibid. 



Tehawut. The Cowlitz name for the 

 Salish on Skukum Chuck, an e. tributary 

 of upper Chehalis r., Thurston co.. 

 Wash. 

 Tehawuten.— Gibbs, MS. no. 248, B. A. E. 



Tehoanoughroonaw. An unidentified 

 tribe known to the Iroquois. — McKen- 

 ney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, iii, 80, 185-1. 



Tehononsadegi ('there his lodge was 

 burned'). A small Seneca village for- 

 merly situated in Warren co., Pa., on the 

 right bank of the Allegheny r., 4 m. from 

 the New York state line. It was the resi- 

 dence of the noted Seneca chief Corn- 

 planter, (q. v.) 



Chinuchshungutho.— Rosecrantz (1792) in Am. St. 

 Papers, Ind. Aff., I, 337, 1832. Complanters.— 

 Brown, West Gaz., 355, 1817. De-o-no-sa-da'-ga. — 

 Morgan, League Iroq., 229, 1861. Jennesedaga, — 

 Alden (1816) in Day, Pa., 656, 1843. Junisadagoe.— 

 Ransom (1794) in" Am. St. Papers, Ind. Aff., I, 

 509, 1832. New Arrow town.— Procter (1791), ibid., 

 152. Obaletown.— Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 6, 119, 

 1848. O'Beel's town.— Procter (1791) in Am. St. 

 Papers, Ind. Aff., i, 151, 1832. Onoghsadago.— 

 Johnson Hall conference (1774) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., VIII, 426, 1857. Seneca Abeal.— Treaty of 

 Fort Stan wi.v (1784) in Am. St. Papers, Ind. Aff., i., 

 10, 1832. Tehono"sadegi.— Hewitt, inf 'n, 1886 (Sen- 

 eca form). Tenachshegoucbtongee. — Procter (1791) 

 in Am. St. Papers, Ind. Aff., i, 152, 1832. Thiven- 

 goa.— Pouchot map (1758) in N.Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 X, 694, 18.58. 



Tehoragwanegen ( ' He has placed two 

 planets together'). An Iroquois war- 

 chief of the Caughnawaga Mohawk, Que- 

 bec, known also as Thomas Williams; 

 born about 1758-59. His mother was 

 Mary de Roguers, granddaughter of the 

 Rev. John Wilhams, of Deerfield, Mass., 

 who, with the portion of his family not 

 murdered on the spot, was taken captive 

 by a band of French and Indians on the 

 night of Feb. 29, 1704. Eunice, one of 

 John Williams' daughters, while a cap- 

 tive became strongly attached to the In- 

 dians, and afterward, at the instance of 

 the Jesuits, married a Caughnawaga chief 

 known as De Roguers, to whom she bore 

 three children, Catherine, Mary, and 

 John. Mary, the mother of John, the .sub- 

 ject of this sketch, died when the latter 

 was only 15 months old, and he was then 



adopted by his aunt Catherine, the wife 

 of a noted Caughnawaga chief, X. Rice, 

 who had no heirs. Tehoragwanegen, 

 having been born and reared among the 

 Indians, acquired their habits and lan- 

 guage. As a boy he was active and 

 sprightly. He was reared by his aunt in 

 the Roman Catholic faith. During the 

 early years of the American Revolution, 

 although then only about 17 years of 

 age, Tehoragwanegen accompanied the 

 war-parties of his tribe on various ex- 

 peditions against the colonists of the 

 northern frontiers. It appears that his 

 grandmother, Eunice, persistently urged 

 him to follow these hostile bands to pre- 

 vent, when possible, the massacre of de- 

 fenceless women and children, and on 

 various occasions he bent every effort to 

 have the American prisoners treated 

 with humanity and kindness. In 1777, 

 at the head of his band, he joined the 

 army of Gen. Burgoyne and took an ac- 

 tive part in the campaign around Sara- 

 toga thatended in Burgoyne's surrender. 

 Having remonstrated with Burgoyne 

 against the needless cruelty shown toward 

 the colonists by the western Indians, 

 among whom were the Ottawa, Chip- 

 pewa, Menominee, and Winnebago, 

 Burgoyne rebuked them so severely 

 that they became offended and soon after- 

 ward deserted the army. Had Tehorag- 

 wanegen' sad vice been followed, the mur- 

 der of Miss Jane McCrea near Ft Edward, 

 N.Y., would never have been perpetrated. 

 In 1780 he was attached to the corps of 

 Sir John Johnson during its desolating 

 operations in the Mohawk valley, and 

 expressed so strong disapproval of the 

 conduct of the Tories and some of the 

 allied Indian warriors that he aroused the 

 jealousy and hatred of Johnson, who 

 feared, however, an open rupture with 

 him on account of his high standing with 

 Gov. Carleton of Canada for his valued 

 services to the government. After the 

 peace of 1783, Tehoragwanegen visited 

 his relatives in New England, where he 

 met the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, the cele- 

 brated missionary. In 1789, with two 

 others of his tribe, he took steps toward 

 negotiations which resulted in the treaty 

 of New York in 1796, between the state 

 and the Seven Nations of Canada, by 

 which these Indians were compensated 

 for lands of which they had been de- 

 prived. The other two delegates were 

 Ohnawiio ('Good Stream') and Atiato- 

 harongwen ('His Body is Taken Down 

 from Hanging'), alias Colonel Lewis 

 Cook. 



In 1800 Tehoragwanegen took his two 

 sons to be educated among his relatives. 

 One of these was Eleazer Williams (q. v. ), 

 the reputed Dauphin of France. In 1801, 

 Tehoragwanegen, with a party of Caugh- 



