Daniel [fl. 1804-1836], Unami/Delaware 2nd chief; visited Bear Creek in January 1804; signed Surrender #47, part of Moraviantown, October 25, 1836; probably moved to Wisconsin or Kansas in 1837, may have returned in 1843 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 115; Denke 1990: 4).

Daottundt / Dawatout / John Hicks [fl. 1817], Wyandot Nation; signed the US peace treaty at the Miami Rapids, September 29, 1817 (US 1837: 216; MPHSC vol. XVI: 676).

David [fl. 1836], Delaware Nation, Moraviantown [Fairfield]; signed Surrender #47, part of Moraviantown, October 25, 1836 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 115).

Anthony Day / Antone Day [born at the Oneida Castle, New York; fl. 1884], Oneida Nation, Oneida Settlement; signed Surrender #197, hunting agreement, August 1, 1884 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 121).

Thomas Day [fl. 1872], Oneida Nation, Oneida Settlement; signed Surrender #127, Canadian Southern Railway right of way (Canada 1891 vol. I: 296).

William Day [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1777; fl. 1848-1852], Oneida chief, Oneida Settlement, married to Mary [born in the U.S. 1792; fl. 1852]; signed Surrender #233, Oneida Settlement purchase, December 20, 1848 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. II: 187).

Francis Debary / Francis Deleary [born at Amherstburg in 1849; fl. 1890-1901], Ojibwa Nation, Caradoc [Muncey] community; signed Surrender #200, December 21, 1882; Francis Deleary signed: Surrender #289, July 25, 1890, and Surrender #445, part of Caradoc reserve, July 19, 1901 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. II: 125, vol. III: 17, 331).

William Debary / William Deleary [fl. 1882], Ojibwa Nation, Muncey; signed Surrender #200, December 21, 1882 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 125).

Degarondagoo / Degaronda [fl. 1701], Oneida sachem; attended the Albany Conference with Governor Nansan, July 9, 1701; placed southern Ontario hunting grounds under the protection of the British Crown on July 19, 1701 (NYCD vol. IV: 897, 910; P. Monture pers. com.).

Dekanisoree / Dekanissore [1701], Cayuga sachem, Wolf tribe; attended the Albany Conference with Governor Nansan, July 9, 1701; placed southern Ontario hunting grounds under the protection of the British Crown, July 19, 1701; attended the Great Peace Council in Montréal, July 25, 1701 (NYCD vol. IV: 897, 900, 910; P. Monture pers. com.).

Desharemoi [fl. 1800], Huron/Wyandot or Tionnontaté chief; signed Surrender #12, Huron Church Reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800 (Canada 1891: 30; Lajeunesse: 208).

Dewatonte / Deewentatee [fl. 1780; died c.1794 near Windsor], principal Huron/ Wyandot chief, Turtle tribe, Windsor area community; Dewatonte, Huron chief, signed the deed for a gift of land on the Detroit River to Father Potier, at Detroit, September 22, 1780; he signed the deed for a gift of land by the Huron village to Reverend F.X. Hubert, at Detroit, March 4, 1782 [with Doyantate] (Lajeunesse: 120, 131-132; Leclair 1988a: 25, 31).

David Dolson [fl. 1882], Delaware Nation, Moraviantown [Fairfield], son of Isaac Dalston; signed Surrender #199, part of Moraviantown, November 13, 1882 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 124; Gray: 161).

Isaac Dolson [born on the Grand River in 1782; fl. 1812-1852], Munsee/Delaware chief, he lived in the village of Colborne at Muncey, near the home of Chief John Tomigo in 1812; received a messenger from Moraviantown [Fairfield] on October 4 or 5, 1813, in response he arrived at Moraviantown after the Battle of the Thames with a war party to fight the Americans, his force hid in ambush along the water's edge of the river, they skirmished with US Indians there; Dolson, Wesleyan Methodist, met Kahkewaquonaby [Peter Jones] on March 27, 1828 at Muncey town; married Electa Tipic Kises [born on the Grand River 1797; fl. 1852] on January 3, 1836 at Muncey; they were probably the parents of Isaac Dolson Junior [born on the Grand River in 1820; fl. 1852]; they lived with the Munsee widow Dolly Dolson [born in the U.S. in 1767; fl. 1852] in 1852 (PAC Canada 1851-52; RCWL VF185; Goodspeed: 26; Kahkewaquonaby 1860: 126-127).

Joseph Dolsin [born on the Thames River in 1830; fl. 1890], Munsee Nation, Caradoc community; signed Surrender #288, part of Caradoc reserve, September 29, 1890 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. III: 15).

Peter Dooyentate Clarke / Peter Clarke [born c.1810; died c.1892; Petrone states that he died in 1870], Wyandot Nation, Anderdon community, author / chief, son of a Wyandot woman and an Euro-Canadian officer of the Indian Department at Fort Malden, grandson of Huron Chief Adam Brown; moved from the Anderdon Reserve to Sandusky in 1841; married a Cherokee there; the Wyandot sold their Ohio lands in 1842, they disbanded in 1855 and Peter Clarke moved back to Anderdon to nurse his mother in 1865; he was re-instated in the Anderdon Wyandot community by order of Spragge c.1867; he claimed the hereditary chieftainship of the Anderdon Wyandot in 1867; published Origin and Traditional History of the Wyandotts etc in Toronto, 1870; contested Chief Joseph White's claim to the chieftainship of the Anderdon Wyandot community in 1871; Peter D. Clarke signed: Surrender #141, Little Turkey Island, Detroit River, November 7, 1874, Surrender #167, part of Anderdon Township, December 21, 1877, Surrenders #177 and #178, parts of Anderdon Township, May 7, 1879, Surrenders #215 and #216, parts of Anderdon Township, May 7, 1879, and Surrender #346, Huron reserve, November 2, 1892 (Canada 1847: no. 19; Canada 1891 vol. II: 2, 66, 83, 85, 154, 156, vol. III: 120; Blair vol. II: 189; Clarke; Leclair 1988a: 63-65, 74; Petrone: 71). '..the four nations now entered into an arrangement about their country, as follows: The Wyandotts to occupy and take charge of the regions from the River Thames, north, to the shores of Lake Erie, south. The Chippewas to hold the regions from the Thames to the shores of Lake Huron and beyond. The Ottawas to occupy and take charge of the country from Detroit to the confluence of Lake Huron, with St. Clair river, thence northwest to Michilimakinac, and all around there. And the Pottawatomies the regions south and west of Detroit'—Toronto, 1870.

ÌDow-yen-tet the Elder / Dewentatee / Pomoacan / The Half King [fl. 1777 onwards; died on the Huron Reserve near Windsor in February or March, 1791; however, De Schweinitz says that the Half King died at Detroit in the summer of 1788; Scruniyattha was an earlier Wyandot Half King and head chief in 1755], Wendat/Huron/ Wyandot chief of Sandusky, his Delaware name was Pomoacan; he moved to the Windsor area around 1781; son of Wyandot Chief Orontony, father of several sons including Wyandot Chiefs Harenyou and Scotosh of Sandusky, and Dow-yen-tet the Younger of the Huron Reserve near Windsor; his daughter lived on the Huron Reserve after his death and two of her sons were baptised there in 1798-1799; the Half King defeated US forces near Lichtenau and attacked Fort Henry around the beginning of October, 1777; Dy-en-tete the Elder and Dy-en- tete the Younger, Wyandot war chiefs, attended a council at Detroit with Lieutenant Governor Hamilton, June 14, 1778; Dunquat / the Half King attended a council at Upper Sandusky, July 30, 1779; Dugantait made peace on a belt with the US and went to Detroit to get others to follow his example in 1779; in 1780 the Wyandot Half King threatened to drive the Delawares off Wyandot lands if they did not side with the English; Pomoacan, then living at Upper Sandusky, and Captain Pipe arrived at Salem and Gnadenhütten with a large number of warriors on August 10, 1781; Zeisberger warned the US at Fort Pitt of their approach; the Half King attended a council at Gnadenhütten on August 20 where he asked the Moravians to settle near him at Sandusky; he asked them again on August 25; the Half King's warriors plundered Gnadenhütten in September 1781; he offered the Moravian Delaware protection from U.S. Forces and on September 11 Gnadenhütten was abandoned; two of the Half King's sons were killed near the Ohio River by Poe the elder after a Wyandot raid on Harmon's Creek in 1781, Scotosh escaping; Pomoacan brought the Moravian Delaware to Sandusky on October 1; the Half King claimed he was formerly a Six Nations chief on October 21, 1781; Half King sent the Moravian Delaware to Detroit on December 11, 1781; Half King attended a council at Sandusky, March 1, 1782; the Half King unwittingly approved the torture and death of US Captain Crawford by the Delaware on June 11, 1782; Tyantet / Half King, principal Huron chief from Sandusky, attended and spoke at a council at Detroit, September 1, 1782; Doyentete, Huron chief of Detroit, attended and spoke at a council at Detroit, April 24, 1783; Deyonquat attended and spoke at a council at Sandusky, August 26, 1783; Duentate, Huron chief, attended councils at Detroit on October 21 and 22, 1783; Daunghquat, Wyandot chief, signed the US Treaty of Fort McIntosh, January 21, 1785; the Half King Weyondott signed the US Big Miamis [Maumee River] Treaty, January 31, 1786 - while where he attended a private meeting with the US commissioners who threatened him; Duyantale / Duentete, Huron/Wyandot chief, attended a council at Muskingum Falls, December 1788 - while there he signed the US Treaty of Fort Harmar, January 9, 1789; Doy-en-tet / Dow-yen-tet, Huron chief [possibly Dow-yen-tet the Younger], attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790, where he signed [with a Turtle totem with a cross on its shell] Surrender #2, south side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor; The Half King warned the Moravians to leave the Huron River area [because of the US presence] in March 1791; St. Clair noted the absence of Dewintate from a council with the US at Fort Harmar on April 30, 1791; on May 3, 1791 McNiff wrote that "the Chief [Dewentatee] who lived there [Rivière Canard] and had the greatest claim on those lands died about two months past..." (For references see Dow- yen-tet the Younger). 'Brethren the Six Nations you know where the Boundary Line was fixed, since you were the people who fixed it. We now inform you that the Virginians are already encroaching upon our Lands, and we desire you and our Father to be strong, and desire them to desist from encroaching upon us, otherwise they will destroy the good work of Peace which we are endeavouring to promote.'—Sandusky, Sept. 8, 1783.

ÌDow-yen-tet the Younger / Duantats / Duentet [fl. 1778-1812], principal Huron chief, Rivière Canard [near Windsor] community, the son of Dow-yen-tet the Half King, brother of Haroenyou; Dy-en-tete the Younger, Wyandot war chief, attend-ed a council at Detroit with Lieutenant Governor Hamilton, June 14, 1778; Daouaton / Da8aton, Huron chief, signed the deed for a gift of land on the Detroit River to Father Potier, at Detroit, September 22, 1780; Toienthet, principal Huron chief, attended a council with Major De Peyster at Detroit, July 29, 1781, asking for a missionary to replace Potier who had died that year; Doyantate, Wyandot chief, signed the deed for a gift of land by the Huron village to Reverend F.X. Hubert, at Detroit, [with Dewatonte], March 4, 1782; Dow-yen-tet, Huron chief [possibly Dow-yen-tet the Younger], attended a council at Detroit on May 19, 1790, where he signed [with a Turtle totem with a cross on its shell] Surrender #2, south side of Askunessippi [Thames River] from Port Bruce to Windsor; Duyenty, Huron chief, attended and spoke at a council with De Peyster at Detroit, August 16, 1790, he stated his determination to retain the Huron lands at the River Canard near Windsor; he passed a war belt from the Ojibwa on September 7, 1792 at Detroit; Dunquad / Half King [probably Dow-yen-tet the Younger], the successor to Sandusky Wyandot head Chief Tarhé, urged Wyandot neutrality after the fall of Detroit on August 15, 1812; Dunquad / Half King, Wyandot chief, signed the US peace treaty at the Miami Rapids, September 29, 1817 (PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 002; ser. II vol. 13; Canada 1891 vol I: 1; De Schweinitz: 457, 493, 516, 533, 611; Fraser: xciv; Gray: 56, 65, 67, 75; Hodge vol. I: 527; Horsman: 31-35; Kjellberg: 28; Lajeunesse: 120, 124-126, 131-132, 173; Leclair 1988a: 25, 31; Leighton: app. B4; Weslager: 312, 315; MPHSC vol. IX: 443, vol. X: 348, 502, 527, 528, 546, vol. XII: 40, 92, 126, vol. XIII: 46, vol. XVI: 676, vol. XIX: 413, vol. XX: 67, 133, 175, 181-182, 308, 678, vol. XXIV: 24, 27, 41, 179, 214, 218, vol. XXV: 690; OAHS vol. III: 6, 10-11, vol. VI: 402-403, vol. VII: 21, 59, 64-66, 77, 225, 331). 'When our forefathers were living they were always at war and fighting with different Nations of Indians and were drove from place to place until at last they came to the River Cannard and other places about it, where then Sastereche [Sas-ta-rit-sie] fixed his seat, and said this ground I appoint for the present Generation and the Posterity that is to come after them. I have made it known to all Nations around me that this Ground I intend to stand upon - and here we must perish before any other power dispossess us of it'—south of Windsor, August 16, 1790.

From Surrender #2 (1790). PAC RG10 vol. 1840 IT 002.

Thomas Doxtater [born at the Oneida castle, New York in 1814; fl. 1852-1884], Oneida Settlement, married to Catherine [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1816; fl. 1852]; he signed Surrender #197, hunting agreement, August 1, 1884 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 121).

Baptist Doxtator [born at the Oneida Castle, New York 1827; fl. 1852-1884], Oneida Settlement, married to Hester [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1831; fl. 1852]; he signed Surrender #197, hunting agreement, August 1, 1884 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 121).

William Taylor Doxtator / Taylor Dockstader [born at the Oneida Castle, New York 1805; fl. 1840-1892], Oneida Nation leader, married to Margaret, [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1805; fl. 1852]; negotiated the purchase of the Oneida Settlement with Chief Abraham Schuyler, March 1840; kept a large farm in 1850; he signed Surrender #127, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 17, 1872; William Doxtater Sr. signed Surrender #197, hunting agreement, August 1, 1884; Wm. Doxtator signed Surrender #320, part of Oneida reserve, June 28, 1892 (PAC Canada 1851-52; Canada 1891 vol. I: 121, 296, vol. III: 70; Goodspeed: 18; Mayer: 7).

John Dumford/ John Danford [fl. 1872-1902], Oneida Settlement; John Dumford signed Surrender #127, Canadian Southern Railway right of way, January 17, 1872; John Dunford, signed Surrender #453, public acces right of way, March 4, 1902; John Danford signed Surrender #458, hunting agreement, May 21, 1902; the name Danford survives in the community at Muncey (Canada 1891 vol. I: 296, vol. III: 346, 355; Doris Fisher [daughter-in-law of Sarah Danford] pers. com.).

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