Captain Jacob [killed by Bethlehem in 1763], Unami/Delaware chief; brother of Delaware chief Wetterhold (Gray: 91).

F. W. Jacobs [fl. 1903], Ojibwa head chief, Sarnia / Kettle Point / Stoney Point community; he signed: Surrender #478, Erie and Huron Railway right of way, September 20, 1903, Surrender #479, Sarnia, Petrolia & St. Thomas Railway right of way, June 22, 1903, and Surrender #480, part of Sarnia reserve, August 24, 1903 (Canada 1891 vol. III: 388-389, 391-395).

John Jacobs [fl. 1857], Delaware Nation, Moraviantown [Fairfield]; he signed: Surrender #83, part of Moraviantown, April 9, 1857, and Surrender #83², part of Moraviantown, May 15, 1857 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 215, 217).

John P. Jacobs [fl. 1857], Delaware Nation, Moraviantown [Fairfield]; he signed Surrender #83², part of Moraviantown, May 15, 1857 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 217).

Joshua Jacobs [fl. 1857-1882], Delaware Nation, Moraviantown [Fairfield]; he signed: Surrender #83, part of Moraviantown, April 9, 1857, Surrender #83², part of Moraviantown, May 15, 1857; Surrender #199, part of Moraviantown, November 13, 1882 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 215, 217, vol. II: 124).

Philip Jacobs [fl. 1857; died 1870 at Moraviantown {Fairfield}], Delaware head chief of Moraviantown; succeeded Timothy Snake in 1869, who was the second chief before that; he signed: Surrender #83, for part of Moraviantown, April 9, 1857, and Surrender #83², part of Moraviantown, April 9, 1857 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 215, 217; D. Stonefish pers. com.).

Wesley Jacobs [fl. 1882], Delaware, Moraviantown [Fairfield]; he signed Surrender #199, part of Moraviantown, November 13, 1882 (Canada 1891 vol. II: 124).

Wilson Jacobs [fl. 1867-1894], Ojibwa chief, Sarnia community; in 1867 Wilson Jacobs was trained as a catechist by Reverend Edward Wilson; Wilson Jacobs signed Surrender #358, part of Sarnia reserve, October 22, 1894 (Canada 1891 vol. III: 143-144; Wilson: 45).

Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson / Ogima Quay / Was-sa-je-wun-e-quw / Wah-sàh-ge-wahz-nò-quà / Woman of the bright stream [born Dublin, Ireland May 19, 1794; died London, England March 17, 1860], writer / art historian / feminist, married Robert Jameson in 1825; he became attorney general of Upper Canada and she joined him at York in mid-December, 1836; left him to travel through Upper Canada in June 1837; she was adopted by the Ojibwa Nation; attended the Grand Council on Manitoulin Island, August 1, 1837; left her husband and Upper Canada in September 1837, having arranged a separation agreement with her husband; she sailed from the US for England in February 1838; she settled in London where she became a noted art historian and author (Jameson; Robertson: 143-146; DCB vol. VIII: 649-651).

Jawinit [fl. 1805], Ojibwa Nation, Bear Creek [Sydenham River] community; lived in Kitegan in 1806 (Denke 1991).

James [died June 20, 1813], Moravian Delaware; murdered with Elias by a settler on June 20, 1813 at Cornwall's brandy distillery, down river from Moraviantown [Fairfield]; the murderer was acquitted by a jury at Sandwich over the objections of presiding Judge Powell (Gray: 222).

Jeremias [killed November 4, 1813 by US Indians, 12 miles from Burlington], Moravian warrior, oldest son of Tobias; captured by the Americans and held at Fort Niagara; released in December 1812 when the British captured the fort (Gray: 255).

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

Captain Johnny (1) [fl. 1765-1777], Delaware chief, Turkey division; attended an Indian congress at Fort Pitt, May 9, 1765; leader of the Delaware peace faction; he succeeded King Beaver as head of the Turkey Division in 1769; moved to chief Netawatwees' town at Coshocton, Ohio in 1776 and then Assinink; moved from there in 1777 (Goddard 1978a: 223; Tanner: 81, 87; PSWJ vol. XI: 724).

Captain Johnny (2) [fl. 1784-1810], Shawnee/Chaouanon chief; Captain Johnny, principal Shawnee chief, visited Alexander McKee at Swan Creek on the Miami River on November 18, 1784; sent a message to McKee on March 20, 1785; attended and spoke at a council at Wakitunikee, May 18, 1785, he strongly opposed US settlement in Ohio; he went on a speaking tour of Kentucky in the spring of 1786, and the Shawnee towns in 1787; spent 2 months in Indiana in early 1787; moved to the Glaize [Defiance, Ohio] in 1789; Captain John, Shawnee Chief, presided over the council that released Thomas Ridout in April 1788, it was held across the river from Fort Miami; Captain John greeted the Five Nations at the Grand Council on the Glaize on September 15, 1792; Captain Johnny received a message from Alexander McKee offering provisions, which he passed to the Shawnee chiefs at the Glaize on May 27, 1793; Captain John set out for the Miamis Rapids on July 8, 1793 from Niagara and Detroit; he attended a council there with US boundary commissioners from July 21; attended a council in mid-November, 1794 where La Plant urged them to support the French and the US; attended a council with Blackbeard, Buckongehalis and George Ironside at Swan Creek on February 12, 1795; Captain Johnny was Matthew Elliott's main Shawnee contact at Swan Creek in January 1796; he was pro-British; he moved to Isle aux Bois Blancs [Bob-Lo Island] with Shawnee Chief Blackbeard and some of the Shawnee Nation in the spring of 1796; lived on Bois Blanc Island on July 18, 1796, moved to the Chennail Ecarte in the fall, and then to Bear Creek [Sydenham River] in 1797, where they wintered inland from the eastern shore of Lake St. Clair; he attended a meeting with The Blackbeard, The Borrer [Kekanathuko], Buffaloe and Captain Mayne, the commandant of Amherstburg, on June 30, 1797; Captain Johnny lived on the Glaize River in 1808; he was invited to Malden in March, 1808 by Claus, he arrived with Blackwood and Buffaloe, but because of illness he was unable to see Claus until March 25, 1808; he attended a council at Brownstown, October, 1810 (Cruikshank vol. I: 337, vol. III: 183-184, 293; Ferris: 41-42; Goltz 1973: 116; Horsman: 84, 88, 115-116, 166-167; Ridout: 367; MPHSC vol. XII: 64-65, vol. XV: 87, vol. XX: 385, 458, 519, 697, vol. XXIV: 468, vol. XXV: 242, 244, 272, 690, 692). 'You are drawing close to us, and so near to our bedsides, that we can almost hear the noise of your axes felling our Trees and settling our country. According to the Lines settled by our Forefathers, the Boundary is the Ohio River, but you are coming upon the ground given to us by the Great Spirit'—Wakitunikee, May 18, 1785.

Captain Johnny (3) [fl. 1812], Shawnee war chief [possibly the son of Captain Johnny], he was with Captain Logan and Bright Horn on the US side at the siege of Fort Wayne in August 1812; the three of them left Fort Wayne when Chief Logan's loyalty to the US was questioned; they travelled on the Maumee River where they were captured by a British force in November; in escaping, Captain Johnnie shot and scalped Pottawatomie Chief Winnemac; he arrived at Fort Winchester on foot where Chief Logan [who had ridden ahead on Chief Johnnie's horse] died of his wounds (Drake: 51, 57, 58).

James Johnston [fl. 1903], Ojibwa Nation, Kettle Creek and Stoney Point community; he signed: Surrender #478, Erie and Huron Railway right of way, September 20, 1903, and Surrender #480, part of Sarnia reserve, August 24, 1903 (Canada 1891 vol. III: 388, 391).

John Johnston [fl. 1866-1871], Ojibwa Nation, Sarnia community; he signed: Surrender #107, December 13, 1866, and Surrender #119, May 5, 1871 (Canada 1891 vol. I: 252, 275).

Samuel Johnston [fl. 1903], Ojibwa Nation, Kettle Creek and Stoney Point community; he signed: Surrender #479, Sarnia, Petrolia & St. Thomas Railway right of way, June 22, 1903, and Surrender #480, part of Sarnia reserve, August 24, 1903 (Canada 1891 vol. III: 391, 394).

John Jones / Thayendanegea / Tyantenagen [born July 10, 1798 on the Humber River; died May 4, 1847, London], Mississauga/ Ojibwa chief / surveyor / teacher / Methodist missionary, son of Tuhbenahneequay and Augustus Jones, brother of Kahkewaquonaby [Peter Jones]; grew up at the western end [Head of the Lake] of Lake Ontario; studied surveying in Hamilton in 1823, converted to Methodism in the same year; married Kayatontye [granddaughter of Joseph Brant] in late 1823 - she died in the 1830's; married Mary Horthy in 1835; became a Credit River Mississauga/Ojibwa chief in 1840 (DCB vol. VII: 455-456).

Jorihoha [fl. 1781], Huron chief; attended a council with Major De Peyster at Detroit, July 29, 1781 (Lajeunesse: 124-126; MPHSC vol. X: 502, vol. XIII: 92).

Joshua [tortured to death by followers of the Shawnee Prophet on March 17, 1806 at Woapamik {Anderson, Indiana}], Unami/ Delaware interpreter, Moravian; Joshua was summoned to Detroit on March 1, 1782 to face charges of siding with and spying for the US, arrived with Simon Girty; two of his daughters were murdered by US militia at Gnadenhütten on March 8, 1782; Tenskatawa found him guilty of witchcraft at Woapamik in 1806 (Gray: 69).

Anna Justine [fl. 1802-1806], Moravian Delaware, married to Siskiboa in 1806; settled with him by the Moravian mission site on Bear Creek [Sydenham River]; she had been expelled from Fairfield four years earlier, since "in her sinfulness, she offended against the Spirit shamelessly." Denke reported that her desire to settle near the mission site was to was to seek forgiveness for past ill ways (Denke 1993: 4).