Bacacaban [fl. 1785], Ojibwa chief, signed the Jonathon Schieffelin deed, north side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Chatham to London, September 20, 1788 (PAO, MU 2099 OS 1-4).

Bakakadus / Jim Carey [fl. 1812], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey community; he was with Tecumseh in the War of 1812; possibly the father of George Carey [born on the Credit River in 1822; lived at Muncey in 1852] (PAC Canada 1851-52; Goodspeed: 20).

Bandegechowa [fl. 1774], Odawa chief, Detroit; signed [with a Sturgeon totem] an indenture granting an island in the Detroit River [half a league from Hog Island] to Alexis Masonville in 1774 (PAC RG10, Seres II, C1224, vol. 16: 117-120).

Beata [fl. 1804-1806; died June 6th, 1806], Ojibwa, Bear Creek community; married to Ojibwa hunter Mtschiki; visited the Moravian Mission on Bear Creek [Sydenham River], 1804-1806; she sugared on March 4, 1805 along Bear Creek; visited Moraviantown [Fairfield] with her husband and children on April 7; she returned from the mouth of Bear Creek to plant on May 19, and planted in Moraviantown from May 31 to June 18; she died in Moraviantown in June, 1806 after taking ill in the corn fields at Bear Creek (Denke 1990: 12, 20, 1993: 3; Hamil 1951: 70).

The Beaver [fl. 1758-1765; died c.1770], principal Delaware chief, Ohio River community, the brother of Delaware Chief Shingas; he was a weak supporter of the English, and he fought against them after Braddock's defeat; he took part in the treaties of 1760-1762, but was an ally of Pontiac in the hostilities of 1763; The Bover attended a council at Little Lake in June of 1761; at Tuscarawas Town, King Beaver, Delaware chief, warned 14 English traders about an Indian War on May 21, 1763; King Beaver, Shingas, Winginum, Daniel and Anderson brought information in the form of a string of wampum to trader Colhoun at Fort Pitt on June 1, 1763, they declared their neutrality in the hostilities between the Western Nations and the British; he moved from Tuscarawas Town to the head of the Hocking River before March 1764, he remained neutral at that time; Beaver attended and spoke at a council at a camp at Tuskawaras, October 17, 1764; The Beaver attended a congress at Fort Pitt, May 9, 1765; he was under the influence of the Moravians shortly before his death (Peckham: 166-167; Tanner: 51; MPHSC vol. XIX: 77, 186, 253-254, 684; PSWJ vol. III: 212-213. vol. X: 547, 576, vol. XI: 439, 459-461, 723). 'Brother, The Great King of England has Sent you here to renew the Ancient friendship Subsisting between the English & us Indians you have no[t] done that with the Nations living this way Which I desire You will Acquaint the great King of; Yet I see the bloody Hatchet in one of Your hands, we have buried ours, and with this Belt I take that Hatchet out of Your Hand, & turn the edge of it against Your Common Enemy against them You may Use it but I desire You may let us live in peace'—Fort Pitt, April 7, 1760 (PSWJ vol. III: 213).

John Beaver (1) [born near present day London in 1803], Ojibwa chief of the Thames River community [Muncey], married to Ellen [born in the US 1802], father of John Beaver Junior (1) [born on the Thames River in 1835; fl. 1852]; signatory of a letter to Clench with 9 other chiefs in 1835 asking for farm implements, the other chiefs affixed their totems; Goodspeed states that John Beaver married Hannah Elmore on May 3, 1837 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Goodspeed: 26).

John Beaver (2) [born on the Thames River in 1818; fl. 1852], Ojibwa Nation, Thames River [Muncey] Community, married to Mary [born at Amherstburg in 1815; fl. 1852], father of John Beaver Junior (2), married Eliza Rishekains on May 3, 1837 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Goodspeed: 26).

Joseph Beaver [born in 1849; fl. 1882], Ojibwa Nation, Caradoc [Muncey] community, possibly the son of Nelson and Ellen Beaver; signed Surrender #200, December 21, 1882 (PAC Canada 1861; Canada 1891 vol. II: 125).

Nelson Beaver [born near Lambeth in 1819 {PAC Canada 1851-52 says 1822}; died c.1890], Ojibwa chief, Thames River [Muncey] community, nephew of Chief Tommago on his father's side, brother of Peter Beaver (1), married to (1) Ellen [born in the U.S. in 1829; died before 1862], (2) Mary [born in 1839?; died January 12, 1880 at the age of 39, according to her tombstone]; his father [brother of Chief Tommago] died in 1819, and his mother was killed by his brother in 1819 near the Thames River at Delaware; Nelson Beaver was baptized on November 25, 1827; Nelson Beaver provided venison to London c.1830; lived at lower Muncey [Ferris says that he farmed a few miles east of lower Muncey]; Nelson Beaver signed: Surrender #95, sale of timber from Muncey, September 26, 1862, Surrender #126, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 18, 1872, Surrender #154, August 31, 1876; Surrender #184, October 6, 1881; Surrender #200, December 21, 1882; Surrender #205, hunting agreement, July 25, 1883 (PAC Canada 1851-52, 1861; Canada 1891 vol. I: 238, 294, vol. II: 30, 125, 139; Ferris: 71-72; Goodspeed: 20, 24, 480; Smith 1987: 286; Colborne cemetery records). 'What are you saying? You're a blacker Indian than I am, and yet you can't speak Indian. You're a fool. Can you talk anything?'— conversation with an Oneida, London, 1849 (Goodspeed: 24).

Peter Beaver (1) [born c.1805; committed suicide at Muncey in early 1831]; Wesleyan missionary, nephew of Chief Tommago, brother of Nelson Beaver; converted to Christianity by Kahkewaquonaby in 1827, travelled with him from the Credit River to Muncey, March 3-8, 1828; he visited Chief Caleb, probably at the Forks of the Thames, on March 9; he preached at Muncey on the same day; on the 12th he visited Munsee Chief Westbrook and Ojibwa Chief Odehmakoo / Tommago; in early 1831 he went berserk and threatened to kill everyone around him (Smith 1987: 89, 110, 115).

Peter Beaver (2) [born at Amherstburg in 1808; died 1883], married to Mary [born on the Thames River in 1829; fl. 1861], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey community, probably the father of Peter Beaver Junior [born on the Thames River in 1838; fl. 1883], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey; Peter Beaver signed Surrender #210, September 28, 1883 (PAC Canada 1851-52, 1861; Canada 1891 vol. II: 146; Goodspeed: 20; Kahkewaquonaby 1860: 117-118, 120, 272). 'A woman, he said, came to him with a tomahawk in her hands; she seized him by the hair of his head, and held up the cruel weapon over his head, and threatened to tomahawk him if he did not quit his praying. Peter said that he was not at all afraid, but prayed harder to the Lord, and took no notice of her. While the woman was wringing and twisting his hair, he said he got happier and happier, so he did not fear to die. The woman at last let him go and left him'—Muncey, May 5, 1830 (Kahkewaquonaby 1860: 118).

Polly Beaver [born on the Thames River in 1782; fl. 1852], Ojibwa Nation, Caradoc [Muncey] community, married Seneca Jack on September 1, 1834, he probably died before 1852; she may have been the daughter of Chief Tommago and the aunt of the two Peter Beavers (PAC Canada 1851-52; Goodspeed: 25).

Big Canoe [fl. 1812], Winnebago war chief, one-eyed; attacked Makinac with Dickson on July 16, 1812 (Berton 1980: 109).

Bigcanoe [fl. 1829], Ojibwa chief from the Rivière aux Sables community. Father of methodist missionary Thomas Big Canoe who travelled with Peter Jones; Bigcanoe met Peter Jones on Lake Huron above Sarnia en route from the Saugeen River with Chief Kegedoons on July 27, 1829 (Kahkewaquonaby 1860: 27).

Big John [fl. 1799], Munsee chief, upper Thames River [Muncey] community; he was sent from the Miami Nation in 1799 to induce the Munsees on the Thames to set off south for the White River, in order to join the Spanish and French forces there; all but 9 houses agreed to go, those 9 households said that they would move to the Grand River if there were disturbances (MPHSC vol. XX: 627-628).

John Birch [born on the Credit River in 1845; fl. 1872], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey community; son of James Birch [born on the Credit River in 1820; fl. 1852] and Polly Birch [born on the Credit River in 1810; fl. 1852]; John Birch signed Surrender #126, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 18, 1872 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 294).

Bit-Off-Nose [fl. 1805], Ojibwa Nation, Bear Creek [Sydenham River] community; older sister of Ojibwa hunter and local chief Mtschiki; sister-in-law of Beata; camped near Denke's mission site; lived near Chennail Ecarte in 1806; antagonistic toward Denke and Christianity (Blair vol. II: 167; Denke 1991: 16). 'The crime of adultery is generally punished by the Pottawatomies, by the husband's biting off of the woman's nose.'—Blair vol II: 167.

The Blackbeard / Blackwood / Wesecahnay [fl. 1768-1808], principal chief of the Peckuwe tribe, Shawnee/Chaouanon Nation; Wesecahnay / Blackbeard attended a Shawnee council at Chalahgawtha, March 14, 1768; Wesecahnay fought at Fort Boonesboro from September 25 to 31, 1778; according to Eckert, Wesecahnay / Blackbeard and his Puckuwe tribe began the move to lands west of the Mississippi on September 2, 1778; Blackwood, Shawnee chief, attended a council with Captain Johnny, Buckangehalis and George Ironside at Swan Creek, February 12, 1795; he brought intelligence to the British at Swan Creek from the Big Miamis River on March 9, 1796; Blackbeard arrived at Fort Malden with some of his Nation on July 7, 1796, he stayed on Ilse aux Bois Blanc [Bob-Lo Island] with Captain Johnny until the Shawnee women returned from the Miamis Rapids with sweet corn, then the whole community moved to the Chennail Ecarte in August 1796; moved to the mouth of the Sydenham River in 1797 with Shawnee Chief Captain Johnny; they wintered inland from the eastern shore of Lake St. Clair; The Blackbeard attended a council with Captain Johnny, Chief Kekinathuka, the Buffaloe [all Shawnee principal chiefs and warriors] and Captain Mayne, the commandant of Fort Malden, June 30, 1797; Shawnee Chief Blackwood / Blackbeard attended a private meeting with Claus, Captain Johnny and Buffaloe at Amherstburg on March 25, 1808; old Chief Blackbeard visited the Cherokee Nation on behalf of the British in 1808 (Cruikshank vol. III: 293, vol. IV: 293; Eckert: 19, 38, 149, 177; Ferris: 41-42; MPHSC vol. XV: 6, vol. XX: 456, 458, 519, vol. XXV: 242, 244; Goltz 1973: 265). 'At the first meeting between our Forefathers and the English, Our English Father told us he would place his own children along side of us, but he made no doubt that, altho' we raised them, they might be very troublesome in future & when that happened we must take a switch and whip them... and we now sit with our heads down and our arms tied behind our backs, hemmed up, that we cannot look around us for those people the Americans.'—Amherstburg March 25, 1808 (MPHSC vol. XXV: 244).

George Blue-Jacket [fl. 1813], Shawnee/ Chaouanon Nation; British interpreter at Fort Malden, 1813; son of Shawnee war Chief Wayapiersenwah and grandson of Jacques Duperon Baby (Sugden: 235n; DCB vol. V: 852).

Jim Bluejacket [born c.1765; died in Kansas around 1865], Shawnee/Chaouanon warrior, son of Shawnee Chief Wayapiersenwah and grandson of Jacques Duperon Baby, married a Wyandot; accompanied Tecumseh to visit the Creeks and Cherokees in 1809; retreated from Amherstburg with him in 1813 [Eckert says this was not Wayapiersenwah's son]; he was at the Battle of Moraviantown on October 5, 1813; according to Drake, Chief Jim Bluejacket, the son of Chief Wayapiersenwah, was killed at Maguaga on August 5, 1812 (Drake: 110; Eckert: 539, 768; Sugden: 235n; DCB vol. V: 852).

Mary Bluejacket [fl. 1800] Shawnee/ Chaouanon Nation, daughter of Chief Wayapiersenwah and the grand daughter of Jacques Duperon Baby; married Jacques Lacelle of Detroit, and lived at the Rivière Raisin settlement (Quaife 1928 vol. I: 561n).

Boiniashy [fl. 1788], Ojibwa chief, signed the Jonathon Schieffelin deed, north side of the Askunessippi [Thames River] from Chatham to London, September 20, 1788 (PAO, MU 2099 OS 1-4).

Peter Brigham [born on the Thames River in 1827; fl. 1882], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey, married Mary [1852] or Nancy [born on the Thames in 1822; fl. 1861]; Peter Brigham signed: Surrender #126, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 18, 1872, Surrender #154, August 31, 1876, Surrender #184, October 6, 1881, and Surrender #200, December 21, 1882 (PAC Canada 1851-52, 1861; Canada 1891 vol I: 294, vol. II: 94, 125).

John Brown [born in the U.S. in 1818; fl. 1884], Oneida Nation, Oneida Settlement, married to Sally [born at the Oneida Castle, New York c.1818; fl. 1852]; signed Surrender #197, hunting agreement, August 1, 1884 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 121).

Moses Brown [born in the U.S. in 1817; fl. 1872], Oneida Nation, Oneida Settlement, married Mannenk [born in the U.S. in 1817]; signed Surrender #127, Canada Southern Railway right of way, January 17, 1872 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 121).

Le Brutal [fl. 1747], Tionnontaté chief, Wolf tribe, Hotiraon [sturgeon] clan; maintained a home at Etionnontout / Etionnt8t and in the large village, Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island], 1747 census; also maintained a household in Ohio with Chief Orontony (Clifton 1983: 14; Lajeunesse: 35-37).

Buckongehalas / Buckaugehaliss / Captain Bohoazchelaus / Breaker in Pieces [fl. 1779-1813], Munsee/Delaware chief, Wolf clan; son of Delaware Chief Wandochale; he was a member of the pro-British faction of the Delaware Nation; lived on the upper Mad River in 1779; Buckagihilas attended councils with the Moravians at Gnadenhütten in April and at Detroit in November and December, 1781 - he regarded the Moravians as his enemies and did not agree with letting them return to Ohio; he warned the Moravians at Gnadenhütten about the danger from the US militia; with Captain Pipe he defeated US militia forces, under the command of Captains Crawford and Williamson, at the Sandusky River in June 1782, after the Gnadenhütten massacre; Buckangehela, Delaware chief, signed the US Treaty of Fort McIntosh, January 21, 1785; he attended council of the Western Nations at Detroit in 1785, which resolved to halt US expansion at the Ohio River; Buckangehela attended a council at Wapatomica, June 10, 1785; Capt. Bohoazchelaus signed the US Big Miamis [Maumee River] Treaty, January 31, 1786; he had settled at the Glaize in 1786; he opposed and defeated St. Clair on December 3, 1791; Buckaugehaliss attended the General Council at the Glaize [Defiance, Ohio], September 30, 1792, and a private council there on October 6th; he lived at Big Cat Town on the Auglaize River in 1792; Buckongahelas attended a council at the Miami Rapids, August 7, 1793; Buckingellis's son and another boy were killed by a falling tree on October 17, 1794; he attended a council with Captain Johnny, Blackbeard and George Ironside at Swan Creek, February 12, 1795; Buk- on-ge-he-lass arrived at Greenville on June 21, 1795 and signed the US Greenville Treaty, August 3, 1795; he lived at Telipokshy, Indiana around 1800; Tecumseh visited him at his White River village on April 28, 1806; according to Eckert, Buckangehela agreed to fight for the US at a council held in July 1813 (US 1837: 6, 54; Cruikshank vol. I: 220, 225, vol. III: 131, 293; Eckert: 272, 276, 295, 463, 647; Kjellberg: 32, 34; Rosenstiel: 97; Tanner: 44, 83-84, 90; MPHSC vol. X: 543, 545, vol. XIII: 45-46, vol. XX: 417, 699, vol. XXIV: 24, 492; OAHS vol. III: 10, 37, 49, vol. VII: 218, 233). 'I admit there are good white men, but they bear no proportion to the bad, the bad must be the strongest, for they rule. They do what they please. They enslave those who are not of their colour, although created by the same Great Spirit who created us. They would make slaves of us if they could, but as they cannot do it, they kill us!'—Gnadenhütten, April 1781.

Thomas Buckwheat [fl. 1848-1857], Ojibwa Nation, Walpole Island community; in 1848 he received presents from the Indian Department for wounds suffered in the War of 1812; he signed Surrenders #85 & #86, Peach Island, Detroit River and Keshebahahnelegoo Menesha Island, St. Clair River, July 21, 1857 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 220-221; Richardson: 100).

John Joseph Bull / Schebosh / Running Water [born 1720; died 1788 at New Salem], Moravian Missionary, husband of Delaware Christiana, white peace envoy for the Delaware Nation; sent to the Onondaga by the Moravians to seek permission to settle in Pennsylvania in 1746; sent to the US to seek peace; delegated by the US to go to Oswego and Niagara to inform the Indians of peace between the British and the Americans in June 1783, he was taken into custody by the British and brought to Detroit; he then joined the Moravians on the Huron River; his son Joseph was killed and scalped by militia near Gnadenhütten in 1780, his daughter was killed in the massacre there; father of Moravian Reverend helper Jacob (Gray: 35f, 59, 69, 73, 81-82, 85, 124; Kjellberg: 31; Quaife 1928 vol. I: 242n; MPHSC vol. XX: 127, 146, 682).

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