Gaiachotow / Gayahgwaahdoh / Kaien Kwaahton / Sayenqueraghta / Old Smoke / Old King [born c.1700; died 1786 on the Smoke River], Seneca war chief, son of a prominent Seneca war chief, his home village was Ganundasaga [Geneva N.Y.]; he attended councils at: Philadelphia in 1754, Easton in 1758, and Fort Stanwix in 1768; he was a friend of the British during the Beaver War; he helped capture Fort Niagara in 1759; he attended a Johnson Hall council at Niagara, March 21, 1764, and signed preliminary articles of peace on April 3; fought at Oriskany and Forty Fort with Chief Cornplanter in 1778 (Aquila: 241; DCB vol. IV: 404-406).

Gaiash [fl. 1800], Detroit community chief; he signed Surrender #12, Huron Church reserve sale, Windsor, September 11, 1800 (Canada 1891 vol. I: Lajeunesse: 208).

Gelelemend / William Henry / John Henry Kilbuck Jr. [born in Ohio in 1733; died at Moraviantown, 1811], Unami/Delaware chief, Turtle clan, son of John Killbuck Senior, grandson of Delaware Chief Netawatwees, he lived near Pittsburgh; Kilbuck was given strings of wampum to carry to his Nation by the Wyandots in July 1761; he succeeded White Eyes as leader of the peace party; he signed an alliance with the US on September 7, 1778; he moved to Pettequotting in 1788; he was baptised by the Moravians in 1789 as William Henry; he visited Chief Tettepachsit in 1797, and moved to Fairfield in 1798; his son moved to Kansas in 1838; grandfather of John Henry Kilbuck who was born in Kansas and became the first ordained Moravian Delaware in 1884 (US 1837; Goddard 1978a: 233; Gray: 51, 53f, 61, 84, 197, 201n, 206; Tanner: 50, 71, 81; MPHSC vol. XIX: 101, 685).

Gendaskund / Jacob [born 1759; died 1821 at Fairfield], Munsee/Delaware chief, Moravian, son of Delaware Chief Glikhican and Rachel Abbot / Anna Benigna; married to Christiana, the daughter of John Joseph Bull / Schebosh and Delaware Christiana; related to Delaware Chief Teedyuscung (RCWL VF185; Gray: 46-47).

Genonechison [fl. 1785], Ojibwa chief; signed an Ainse receipt, for land on the north side of the Askunessippi [Thames River], from the mouth to Chatham, November 20, 1788 (Fraser: 173).

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

Glikhican / Glickhican / Gunsight / Isaac [born c.1730 in Pennsylvania; murdered with his wife on March 8, 1782 at Gnadenhütten by US militia], Unami/Delaware chief; allied with the French in 1755; married Rachel Abbot / Anna Benigna, father of Jacob of Fairfield; at the seige of Pittsburgh in 1763; he converted to Christianity in 1769, baptised in 1770; moved to Gnadenhütten in 1772; he and Chief Whiteyes kept the Delaware Nation neutral; moved to Detroit in October 1781; returned to Gnadenhütten to harvest corn in February 1782; 29 men, 27 women and 34 children were killed there by the US Militia (Gray: 46ff; Schmalz: 99; DCB vol. IV: 301-302; OAHS vol. VII: 49-50, 64, 70). 'You appear to dread Glickhican, as formerly known to you. Yes, there was a time when I would have scorned to have been assailed in the manner you now meditate; but I am no more Glickhican, I am Isaac now, a believer in the true and living God, for whose sake I am willing to suffer anything-even death!'—Salem, April 13, 1773.

John Gray [fl. 1812], Munsee war chief, Upper Thames River [Muncey] community; he fought for the British in 1812 (MPHSC vol. XVI: 727).

Henry Green [born at the Oneida Castle, New York in 1837; fl. 1884], Oneida community; he signed Surrender #197, hunting agreement, August 1, 1884 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 121; PAC Canada 1851-52).

The Grenadier Squaw [fl. 1774-1777], Shawnee chief, sister of Cornstalk; her town was on Congo Creek in 1774; she attended a peace conference at Camp Charlotte; friendly to the US until her brother's murder at Fort Randolphe in 1777 (Tanner: 80-81; OAHS vol. VII: 353).

Gritagamia [fl. 1774], Odawa chief at Detroit, son of Kitchiwonon, brother of Wokiniana; he signed [with a Deer or Horse totem] an indenture granting an island in the Detroit River [half a league from Hog Island] to Alexis Masonville in 1774 (PAC RG10 ser. II, vol. 16 C1224: 117-120).

James Grosbeck / James Grooseback [fl. 1830's-1883], Ojibwa interpreter, lived at Muncey; James Groesbeak, Chippewa interpreter in June, 1836; James Grosbeck, witnessed a letter from the Bear Creek Ojibwas to the new superintendent on March 23, 1855 at Lower Muncey; James Grooseback signed Surrender #205, hunting agreement, July 25, 1883; Stephen Groessbeek lived at Michilimakinac on August 22, 1767 (PAC RG 10 vol. 453; Canada 1891 vol. II: 139; PSWJ vol. V: 638).

 

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