THE JOHN RODGERS JEWITT HUB

This site now has four self-contained parts.

The John Rodgers Jewitt Hub - It is my goal to produce, maintain and host a comprehensive site posting and linking to available materials about John Rodgers Jewitt - making this site a gateway for anyone who wants to know more. Includes Jewitt Genealogy information.

Native Americans in London -

I am very interested in the experiences of Native Americans who travelled to Europe, especially those who travelled to Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. I wrote my Masters' Thesis about these visitors, and built my first website to support that research.

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  • Introduction - Mohawks, Ojibwas and Iowas

  • 1 - The Visitor as Regal Equal

  • The Government's Reception of the Visitors

  • The Reception of the Visitors by the Religious Establishment

  • The Popular Reception of the Visitors

  • Native American Military Might on Show

  • Native American Military Alliance: 1775

  • Native American Military Alliance: 1785

  • The Ojibwas in Manchester

  • The Ojibwas in London

  • The Iowas

Chaco Canyon & the Anasazi - Under Development - I have currently posted a series of links to other people's material about Chaco. I would like to expand this section.

Fun Links - Personal stuff that is not history related.

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Now Great Anna’s most auspicious reign

Not only makes one sovereign cross the main

One Prince from lands remote a visit pay

And come and see, and wonder, and obey;

But wing’d by her example urges four

To seek protection on Britannia’s shore

Wilkes’ Company at the Haymarket, April 24th 1710.

The Native American delegates who traveled to London in 1710 were the first such visitors to be perceived as having real political power and influence. The most significant of the four visitors was Hendrick Tejonihokarawe, who was presented to the British public as the Emperor of the Six Nations. Hendrick was no emperor, but by 1710 was already a veteran of interactions with the British. He first emerged in records from North Albany, which record his baptism on July 11th 1690, and suggest that he was already thirty years old. Tejonihokarawe first rose to political prominence in 1701, when ‘despite his young age he was one of the signatories to a deed of 800 square miles of Iroquois hunting ground to William III.’ By 1710, then, Tejonihokarawe was a Christian of twenty years standing who had cultivated a nine-year relationship with colonial administrators at a number of treaty conferences. When Vetch and Nicholson wondered which of their Mohawk allies to bring to the court of Queen Anne, they naturally selected someone with whom they had an extended diplomatic history.

Tejonihokarawe was joined on the Atlantic crossing by Brant Thowariage or Saquainquaragton, John Cenelitonoro, and Etowaucum, a senior member of the Mahican or ‘River Indian’ community. Etowaucum’s participation made Tejonihokarawe the ‘Emperor of the Six Nations,’ despite the fact that the Iroquois confederacy consisted of only five nations until the formal incorporation of the Tuscarora in 1721. Etowaucum lent a minimal degree of diversity to the group, which was capitalized upon by Vetch, Nicholson and Schuyler, and seized upon by the press.

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Last revised: February 19th, 2004.
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