Okawela Paxinosa Okawela Cornstalk

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Okawela Paxinosa Okawela Cornstalk was the son of Chief Paxinosa and Elizabeth (her Christian name). He is also seen as husband of Daughter of Sassoonan, {Shawnee Heritage}, but the mother of his daughter Nonhelema was called Katee.

Nonhelema was the sister of Cornstalk. Cornstalk was the brother of Silver Heels and Nimwha.

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===Uncertainty===

The parents of Hokolesqua, known as Cornstalk, are not known with certainty. He said in a speech that his father was White Fish, a Shawnee man. The Moravian Missionaries say he was the son or grandson of Chief Paxinosa. In any case he was not the son of anyone named Opeechan Stream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornstalk#cite_note-1

In the 1680s, decades before Cornstalk's birth, the Shawnees were driven out of the Ohio Country by the Iroquois.[3] One Shawnee band resettled in the Wyoming Valley along the Susquehanna River in the Province of Pennsylvania, near present-day Plymouth. A leader of this group was Paxinosa, a noted Shawnee chief. Moravian missionaries who knew Cornstalk said he was Paxinosa's son or grandson, so Cornstalk might have been born in that area.[1][2] Shawnees of Cornstalk's era belonged to one of five tribal divisions: Mekoche, Chalahgawtha (Chillicothe), Kispoko, Pekowi, and Hathawekela. Like Paxinosa, Cornstalk belonged to the Mekoche division.[1] ….
The Ohio Shawnees had initially been concentrated in two major towns, Wakatomica on the Muskingum and Lower Shawneetown on the Ohio River. In 1758, Lower Shawneetown was abandoned in favor of multiple, smaller towns up the Scioto River.[5] In the 1760s, Cornstalk established his own town on the Scioto, as did his sister, Nonhelema, known to colonists as the "Grenadier Squaw."[6] Cornstalk's brothers Nimwha and Silver Heels were also notable Shawnee leaders.[1]

1. Sugden, John (1999). "Cornstalk". American National Biography. Oxford University Press.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonhelema

Hokolesqua[1] (c. 1718–1786) Born in 1718 into the Chalakatha (Chilliothe) division of the Shawnee nation and spent her early youth in Pennsylvania. Her brother Cornstalk, and her metis mother Katee accompanied her father Okowellos to the Alabama country in 1725. Their family returned to Pennsylvania within five years. In 1734 she married her first husband, a Chalakatha chief. By 1750 Nonhelema was a Shawnee chief[1] during the 18th century and the sister of Cornstalk, with whom she migrated to Ohio and founded neighboring villages.

1. McEuen, Melissa A. (2015). Kentucky Women Their Lives and Times. Athens, Georgia 30602: The University of Georgia Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-8203-4453-9.

References

Walkinshaw, Lewis Clark. Annals of southwestern Pennsylvania. (Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox Co., 1974).

"Chief Okawela , otherwise called Ocowellos, came westward from the former Shawnee town at Chillisquaqua..."

Sipe, Chester Hale. The Indian chiefs of Pennsylvania. ([New York), 1927. Page 748. GoogleBooks

"Ocowellos at conference which Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania held with the Shawnees, Conestogas, Conoy, and other Indians at Conestoga, in July, 1717, at which time and place he asked them to explain their connection with an attack made by the Senecas upon the Catawbas..." >"The trader, Jonas Davenport, refers to this Indian town in an affidavit made before the Provincial Council on October 29, 1731, when he stated that "on Connemach Creek there are three Shawneese towns, forty-five families, two hundred men," and that their Chief is Okawela."

Origins?

Birth location, Colonial records of Pennsylvania, 1852 state: Edited by Samuel Hazard

”Benjamin asked Paxnous whither he was going with his Family. He answered, to his Land at the Ohio, where he was born, and told him many things he had heard against the English, in Favour of the French."

Harvey, Oscar Jewell. A history of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: from its first beginnings to the present time, including chapters of newly discovered early Wyoming Valley history, together with many biographical sketches and much genealogical material. (Wilkes-Barre: Reader Press, 1909-1930), 1909. 38 mentions of Paxinosa in this book.

”Paxinosa and his Shawanese did not return to the Valley, but late in July, 1758, set out for the Ohio region from Seekaughkunt, where, and in the vicinity of which, they had been living since the Spring of 1756, when they forsook Wyoming."

History of the mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America, 1794.

"Paxnous, being only an ambassador in this business, was satisfied, and even formed a closer acquaintance with the Brethren. His wife, who heard the Gospel preached daily, was so overcome by its divine power, that she began to see her lost estate by nature, prayed and wept incessantly for the forgiveness of sins in the blood of Jesus and earnestly begged for baptism. Her husband, having lived thirty-eight years with her in marriage, to mutual satisfaction, willlngly gave his consent, prolonged his stay at Bethlehem, was present in the chapel, and deeply affected when his wife was baptized by Bishop Spangenberg, during a powerful sensation of the presence of God. The day following they returned home, Paxnous' wife declaring, that she felt as happy as a child new born. Frederic Post accompanied them to Wajomick, partly to look after the baptized, who lived dispersed on the Susquehannah, to partly to lodge those missionaries, who should visit them either from Gnadenhuetten or Bethlehem."

The book of the Indians of North America, 1833. by Samuel Gardner Drake

"Paxnous was head chief of the Shawanese in 1754."

Colonial records of Pennsylvania, 1852. edited by Samuel Hazard

"Benjamin asked Paxnous whither he was going with his Family. He answered, to his Land at the Ohio, where he was born, and told him many things he had heard against the English, in Favour of the French."

MiscellaneaMarescalliana.org Chief Cornstalk: Shawnee Lineage Metcalf Family Mews “Conemaugh Old Town”

"Chief Okawela , otherwise called Ocowellos, came westward from the former Shawnee town at Chillisquaqua on the Susquehanna River, and the three towns over which he ruled are conjectured to be by some as Connemach, Black Legs and Keckenepaulin's."(unsourced but also found in Annals of southwestern Pennsylvania - see S1)

The Family of Tecumseh & Tenskwatawa

"Paxinosa was married to a Moravian convert named Elizabeth, and he died in 1761, seven years before Tecumseh was born."
Shawnee Indian Chiefs and Leaders at Access Genealogy
”Paxinos. A Minisink and subsequently a Shawnee chief of the 17th and 18th centuries. He appears first in history in 1680, when as sachem of the Minisink he sent 40 men to join the Mohawk in an expedition against the French, and 10 years later was sent by his tribe to confer with Gov. Dongan of New York in regard to engaging in the war against the same nation. About 1692 or 1694 a small body of Shawnee settled among the Munsee, of whom the Minisink formed a division, and possibly Paxinos may have been one of this party. He was married about 1717. As early at least as 1754 he is referred to as the "old chief" of the Shawnee (Loskiel, Miss. United Breth., pt. 2, 157-160, 1794), and is so designated in the New York Colonial Documents wherever referred to. Heckewelder (Ind. Nations, 88, 1876), confirmed by Brinton, also says he was the chief of the Shawnee."

"His name is given in various forms, as Paxihos, Paxinosa, Paxnos, Paxnous, Paxowan, Paxsinos, etc. "