Grahams

[linda]

What was Ducan Grahams wifes name?

[wazi]

Suzanne or Sarah I haven't found my papers yet...

wazi

[hermin1]

i think I ran across pretty Arrow when I was serching for some Arrows at www.ancestry.com

[peacekeeper]

Wazi and Linda,
Duncan Graham's wife's name was Susan Penichon. She was the daughter of a chief. This is from Gurneau's website. [Duncan Graham (?-1847) arrived to trade with the Dakota in the 1790's. He became known as Hohayteedah, or Horse Voice, and married Penichon (Penichon), Metis, the daughter of a Dakota chief who was a half-blood son of a French deserter who traded with the Dakota after Martin's left their country; about the time the British won Canada from the French].
Jackie

[linda]

So this is the Duncan Graham that is Alexander Graham's father?

[peacekeeper]

Here are some interesting articles I picked up for you.
Despite odds, Graham beat Taylor
One of the early pioneers in what is now North Dakota won a battle against a national war hero who later became president of the United States.

With a force of 30 soldiers, one piece of artillery and about 1,000 American Indians, Duncan Graham defeated the Americans under the command of Major Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Credit Island on Sept. 5, 1814. Soon after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the war in 1814, Graham established a trading post next to Devils Lake.

James Alexander Duncan Graham was born in the Scottish Highlands in 1772. He came to America as a young man, heeding the call of Wapasha I, chief of the Mdewakanton band of Santee Sioux, who was actively seeking traders and trappers to interact with his tribe.

Chief Wapasha sided with the British during the Revolutionary War, but when the conflict ended he encouraged engagement with both England and the U.S. Graham became a close friend of the elderly chief and was given the Indian name Hohayteedah, which means "Horse Voice."

Graham eventually married the benevolent chief's granddaughter, Istagiwin, aka Susan Penishon. In 1805, Istagiwin gave birth to their first child, a daughter.

At the time, the Mdewakanton band of Sioux occupied the northern regions of what are now Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. Graham kept busy serving as a trading liaison between the Indians and British.


In 1806, Wapasha I died and was replaced by his son, Wapasha II. The new chief, Istagiwin's uncle, was also a man of peace. Although he encouraged the exchange of American and British goods and culture, he recognized the danger of alcohol and excluded it from the items to be bartered.

The peace and tranquility of Wapasha II, his band of Sioux, and the family of Duncan Graham was shattered with the outbreak of the War of 1812.

On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain because England had harassed its merchant marine and interfered with its frontier settlements.

The Sioux, Pottawatomie, Sauk, Fox, and other tribes allied themselves with the British in hopes of protecting their hunting lands from the Americans.

The British gave Graham a commission (reports differ as to whether he was a lieutenant or captain) and enlisted his services with the British Indian Department. On July 17, 1814, he assisted Lt. Col. William McKay in taking the fort at Prairie du Chien, Wis., from the Americans. Prairie du Chien is located on the Mississippi River, separating Wisconsin from Iowa.

In an attempt to eventually retake the fort at Prairie du Chien and to punish the Indians, Taylor was ordered to lead a force up the Mississippi to Rock Island, in northern Illinois, to destroy Indian crops and villages and build a fort to control the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Taylor sailed up the Mississippi River with eight gunboats and 350 (some sources list 430) men from the 7th U.S. Infantry Division.

Graham was sent to intercept Taylor and his force. Under Graham's command were 30 volunteer fur trade employees, and his arsenal composed of one artillery cannon.

Graham also enlisted the aid of about 1,200 Sauk, Sioux, Winnebago, and Kickapoo Indians to help him in his cause. However, he left instructions with them that there was to be no scalping or mutilation of prisoners.

The location he chose to launch this defense was Credit Island, which is the site of present day Davenport, Iowa.

Before daybreak on the morning of Sept. 5, 1814, Graham and his allies spotted the flotilla commanded by Taylor. The first shot from Graham's cannon blasted through the bow of Taylor's boat, and, simultaneously, Graham's men and allies opened fire on Taylor's soldiers.

Taylor realized that his objective was hopeless and, for the only time in his long and illustrious military career, he ordered a retreat.

Prairie du Chien would remain under British control for the remainder of the war.

The Treaty of Ghent was signed on Dec. 24, 1814, ending the War of 1812. The treaty outraged the Indian chiefs of this region who had sided with the British because they had not been consulted.

The British soldiers moved north to Canada; however, this was not practical for the Indians whose homes and families were tied to the land. Graham kept the trust of his Indian friends by continuing to live and work with them in land belonging to the U.S.

This article will be concluded next week as we examine the later life and legacy of Duncan Graham and his family.




Duncan's early life is a mystery. Where he came from prior to arriving in trade with the Dakota in the 1790's is unknown. He became Hohayteedah or Hoarse Voice to the Dakota and married the daughter of Dakota chief, Penichon (Penichon was the half-blood son of a French deserter who traded with the Dakota after the Marin's left their country, about the time the British won Canada from the French).
Duncan's trading career paused when the War of 1812 broke & he became a captain in the British cause. At the battle of lower Sandusky he was repulsed by the American's while leading his command of Dakota warriors and was under Col.William McKay's command when he took Prairie du Chien from the Americans. He lead the efforts which drove, future U.S. President, Zachary Taylor, back down the Mississippi R., in Taylor's attempt to retake Prairie du Chien on 6 Sept. 1814.
In 1816 he became apart of Lord Selkirk war with the Northwest Fur Co., in which he helped secure the trade in northern Minnesota from the NWCo. traders James Grant, Wm.Morrison & Eustace Roussain for a trading season. The following are exerts of a letter Duncan wrote on 24 Feb.1818 to John Allen (Surgeon of the Royal Navy) from Big Stone Lake, giving us insight of his thoughts of his profession & his view of a Yankton Sioux village on the Cheyenne River in today's North Dakota, "...although you are not thoroughly acquainted with all Indian customs from what you have seen of them you may easily judge of my situation surrounded by about 300 lodges of the ferocious savages bruts...the bones of the Grand Siruex (Yankton Chief-killed by an Ojibwe from Leech Lake) were on a scaffold before my lodge. There was continually night & day somebody crying howling over these bones he was father to one brother to another & cousin to a third & so on, in short where he had one relation in his life he had 500 after his death they are related together as they originated from the devil whom I think must be the great Grandfather of them all...This far, past the most disagreeable winter that ever I past in my life I have experienced more trouble, anxiety & danger since the 18th of October last than in the whole course of my life before and I would not undergo as much again for all the beaver that went out of Hudson's Bay in ten years...I am in hopes to go straight to heaven as I have every reason to think that I have already gone through purgatory...I have given the place where I am the name of hell upon earth as I can find no other name more becoming it." In 1820 he was a Hudson Bay Co. trader at Lac Traverse, giving Col. Leavenworth (the new U.S. commander at the mouth of Minnesota R.) concern in accomplishing one of his missions, to secure the fur trade from British traders in U.S. territory. By 1834 he had become an American, settling near Wabasha, Mn., at the foot of Lake Pepin. His daughters had married American traders/voyageurs, Alexander Faribault, Oliver Cratte, Joseph Buisson & James Wells. Duncan died at Mendota on 5 Dec. 1847.




Antoine Pinchon Gregare/Giguiere: (b.nr.Montreal; d.after 1773):
Antoine was a French soldier in Illinois country until he deserted in the 1740's and lived with the tribes on the Missouri until the British took control of the Midwestern region. He was living with the Dakota when Alexander Henry placed him incharge of his Sioux trading venture. On 26 June 1748 a Penichon Giguiere is given 60 livres by Jacques Legardeur (Fort Michilimackinac commander) for giving an Indian a rifle.
About 11 oct. 1766 Jonathan Carver met Pinchon at the Fox-Wisc.Portage & recorded an account by Pinchon of a man of the Menomonie Nation, whom he lost a wager to, betting that he could not get his rattlesnake [which he "treated as a Deity; calling it his Great Father, and caring it with him in a box wherever he went."] to return to the box in May (having given the snake his liberty in October}. Some years later Peter Pond ran into the same character at the Portage.
It appears Antoine's children by a Dakota woman were Wayagoenagee (see below) & Hazahotewin who became the wife of trader Duncan Graham or Hohayteedah (1770/72 - 1847).
Penichon II/ Wayagoenagee/"Good Roads": (b.abt.1789; d.after 1805):
Chief of the Mdewakantons at the Titankatanni village, about 8-9 miles above the mouth of the Minnesota River.
In 1805 Z.Pike met whom he called "le Fils de Penichon", who was the metis son of a French trader by that name.



Duncan Graham or Hohayteedah (1770/72-1847 married Wayagoenagee daughter Claude Pierre Pecaudy, sieur de Contrecoeur (1706-1775) and Dakota woman


Duncan Graham/Hohayteedah, the fur trader, who died at Mendota in 1847 His wife, Hazahotewin, was the sister of Penichon II/ Wayagoenagee/"Good Roads," Chief of the Mdewakantons at the Titankatanni village (Bloomington). The daughters of this couple married prominent fur traders - one was Alexander Faribault, the son of Jean-Baptiste Faribault of Mendota.



Name: ALEXANDER GRAHAM
Land Office: REDWOOD FALLS
Document Number: 1578
Total Acres: 80
Misc. Doc. Nr.: 538
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: April 09, 1881
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 12 Stat. 392
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: May 20, 1862
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Homestead Entry Original
Land Description: 1 E½NE 5TH PM No 112 N 42 W 14

[hermin1]

Wazi: Have you unscrambled your records yet on the Grahams?
I received information that Tateibombdu's English name was John T. Tuttle.

[wazi]

Hermin1,

I have Maggie Tuttle-Trudell's marriage license and it states her father was John Tuttle. I have yet to find him with the name Tateibomdu.

wazi

Oh yeah, I put all my stuff in order and took a trip to Illinois...just got home and havent had time to pull the records...i will do my best to get this done by Thursday.

[peacekeeper]

i found tateibombdu listed as a chief on the 1857 or 1860 lower sioux annuity.

jackie

[hermin1]

wazi: welcome back. I hope you had a good trip. I have a copy of that marriage certificate and the name John Tuttle had me wondering who it was, as well as the mother listed for Maggie. I know it wasn't the Rev. John C. Tuttle. then Edith Casaday told me about finding that Tateimbobdu's english name was John T. tuttle.
According to Edith's sources, Martha Itekagewin was married to Frank Trudell, before Maggie married him. I had already known this, and written it in my notebook, but forgot to write the reference source.

[hermin1]

yes Duncan Graham is the father of Alexander Graham

[ed50]

does anyone know if sarah graham had a sister by the name of lucy mahpiyawakenze(not sure if the end of the name is spelled right). and if she did do you know if she had an indian name. thanks!!

[peacekeeper]

hi ed
the only thing that i can tell you is that lucy and sarah are together in certain things that i have found. i will not detail them on the net. i do believe that there is a connection between them, i am just not sure of the exact connection.

jackie

[stoutmar]

Ohiyewin - Anyone have information regarding Ohiyewin aka alice/agnes/anna arrow?

[peacekeeper]

hi mark. wha tdo you need? roberta sent me a copy of their marriage (alice and francis?).

jackie

[stoutmar]

Hi Jackie,

I can't find anything about who her parents or siblings are... researching and i always hit a brick wall when trying to go beyond ohiyewin.

Thanks,

Mark

[peacekeeper]

have you checked with roberta?
jackie

[stoutmar]

Hi Peacekeeper and Wazi,

Do you have any information to links Graham's to Arrow's?

Thanks,

Mark

[peacekeeper]

i sent it to you.

jackie

[wazi]

The only thing that I know is that Harriet married Stephan Arrow. My uncle said that Alice Arrow was one of Sarah's daughters... however I haven't seen anything in written form.

wazi