Eleazer Williams
Eleazer Williams (May 1788 – August 28, 1858) was a Canadian-American clergyman and missionary of Mohawk descent.[1]
He published tracts and a spelling book in the Iroquois language, translated the Book of Common Prayer into Iroquois, and wrote a biography of Chief Te-ho-ra-gwa-ne-gen (his father Thomas Williams). In later years he claimed that he was the ‘Lost Dauphin’ of France (Louis XVII).[2]
Life
Williams was born in Sault Saint-Louis, Quebec, to Thomas Williams. He received his education at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. In 1815, he joined the Episcopal Church. In 1817, Bishop John Henry Hobart appointed Williams to be a missionary to the Oneida people of upstate New York.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
In 1820 and 1821, Williams led delegations of Native Americans to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they secured a cession of land from the Menominee and Winnebago tribes in the Fox River Valley at Little Chute and along Duck Creek.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Historians have disputed the significance of Williams' leadership to this migration compared to that of the Oneida people themselves, including Oneida leader Daniel Bread.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The following year Williams made his home there and married a fourteen-year-old Menominee girl named Marie Madeleine Jourdain, one of his pupils; contemporary accounts noted she was "not a willing party to the contract."[3] In 1826 he was ordained a deacon.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
In 1839 and afterwards, Williams began to make the claim that he was the French "Lost Dauphin".[4] During the 1850s he openly became a pretender to the throne of France,Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. but he died in poverty at Hogansburg, New York.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Williams was buried at Saint James' Cemetery in Hogansburg on August 28, 1858. In 1947, his remains and tombstone were moved to Holy Apostles Cemetery in Oneida, Wisconsin.[5] His tombstone at Oneida indicates that he was a Freemason.
Legacy
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Publications
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Book of Common Prayer, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America : Translated into the Mohawk or Iroquois language, by the request of the Domestic Committee of the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. New York: H.B. Durand. 1867. OCLC 697994178.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gaiatonsera ionteweienstakwa, ongwe onwe gawennontakon. A spelling-book in the language of the seven Iroquois nations. Plattsburgh, New York: F.C. Powell. 1813. OCLC 24897454.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Good news to the Iroquois Nation: a tract, on man's primitive rectitude, his fall, and his recovery through Jesus Christ. Burlington, Vermont: Samuel Mills. 1813. OCLC 15441682.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Iontatretsiarontha, ne agwegon ahonwan igonrarake, ne raonha ne songwaswens : A caution against our common enemy. Albany, New York: Albany Religious Tract Society by Churchill & Abbey. 1815. OCLC 15462861.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Life of Te-ho-ra-gwa-ne-gen : alias Thomas Williams, a chief of the Caughnawaga tribe of Indians in Canada. Albany, New York: J. Munsell. 1859. OCLC 3444222.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The salvation of sinners through the riches of divine grace: two homilies pronounced at Oneida Castle in the audience of the Oneida Indians at their eighth triennial anniversary since the conversion of six hundred pagans of that tribe to the Christian faith, on the 8th of August 1841. Green Bay, Wisconsin Territory: Republican Office. 1842. OCLC 277220738.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Selections from the Psalms and Hymns according to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Protestant Episcopal Tract Society. 1853. OCLC 6135762.
Citations
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hauptman, Laurence; McLester III, Gordon (2002). Chief Daniel Bread and the Oneida Nation of Indians of Wisconsin. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3412-3.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eleazer Williams, Chief or the 'Lost Dauphin'?". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. July 25, 1931. p. 2. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schnurr, Rachael (2021). A Métis wife's tale: Race, womanhood, and adaptation to settler colonialism in the diaries of Mary Hobart Williams (Master's thesis). Eastern Michigan University.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eleazer Williams, Chief or the 'Lost Dauphin'?". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. July 25, 1931. p. 2. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Remains of Famed Indian Missionary to Go to Oneida". Monroe Evening Times. April 22, 1947. p. 8. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lost Dauphin State Park". Wisconsin State Park System. Archived from the original on 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Oneida history". Oneida tribe. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Godfrey, Linda S.; Hendricks, Richard D.; Moran, Mark; Sceurman, Mark (2005). Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends.... Sterling Publishing Company. pp. 54–55. ISBN 0760759448. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
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References
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hauptman, Laurence (2008). Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations Since 1800. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3165-1.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Williams, Eleazer 1788–1858". Dictionary of Wisconsin History. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sylvain, Phillipe (1985). Williams, Eleazer (Éléazar). University of Toronto. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wight, William Ward; Chicago Historical Society (1903). Eleazer Williams not the dauphin of France: a lecture read before the Chicago historical society December 4, 1902. Fergus' historical series. Fergus Printing Company. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
External links
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