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John Abeel III ( c. 1752 – February 18, 1836) [1] known as Gaiänt'wakê ( Gyantwachia – "the planter") or Kaiiontwa'kon ( Kaintwakon – "By What One Plants") in the Seneca language and thus generally known as Cornplanter, was a Dutch - Seneca chief warrior and diplomat of the Seneca people. As a war chief, Cornplanter fought in ...
Cornplanter was a Seneca Indian leader who aided white expansion into Indian territory in the eastern United States. Cornplanter’s father was a white trader of English or Dutch ancestry named John O’Bail, and his mother was a Seneca Indian.
May 29, 2018 · Seneca chief. New York. Born at Conewaugus (now Avon, New York) in about 1732, Cornplanter was the son of John Abeel, an Albany trader, and a Seneca woman named Gahhononeh. Raised by his mother, Cornplanter may have been present at General Edward Braddock 's defeat in the French and Indian War in 1755.
A leader of the Seneca people, Cornplanter allied himself with the U.S. government in the years after the American Revolution. His cooperation aided white expansion into Indian lands in the eastern United States. Cornplanter was born in New York, possibly in 1732.
The era following the American War of Independence was one of enormous conflict for the Allegany Senecas. There was then no Seneca leader more influential than Chief Warrior Cornplanter. Yet...
Gaiänt'wakê (c. 1750 – 1836) or Kaintwakon, generally known as Cornplanter, was the son of a Seneca (Indian) mother and a Dutch-American father. He was born at Canawagus (now the town of Caledonia) on the Genesee River in present-day New York state.
Cornplanter was a half breed, the son of a white man and an Indian royaneh, a memeber of a Seneca noble family and a hereditary matron of the Wolf clan. There has always been some question as to whether his father was an Englishman, John O'Bail, or a Dutch trader, John O'beel or Abeel.
