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Joanne Gilles will be giving a talk entitled "Elijah Wampey: A Brothertown Indian in Clinton's Old Burying Ground" at the Oneida County History Center on Saturday, November 7 at 2 p.m., and the subject of the talk is the interesting life of a Native American who was well known to European settlers in early Oneida County.Following a short account of the Brothertown community, Gilles will look at the life of Elijah Wampey, a man who served as a veteran twice in the French and Indian Wars and took refuge at Fort Stanwix during the American Revolution and is therefore regarded as one of the founders of Brothertown; Wampey is one of the three indigenous people thought to be buried in Clinton's Old Burying Ground.
The Brothertown Indians are a Native American group established in the late 18th century by Christianised members of several New England tribes, including the Mohegan Tribe, the Pequot Tribe, the Tunxis Tribe, and the Narragansett Tribe. Due to pressure from colonial expansion, they migrated from New England in the 1770s and 1780s to Kirkland and Deansboro, where they obtained land from the Oneidas. In the early 19th century, many moved to Wisconsin.
Joanne Gilles serves as Secretary of the Clinton Historical Society and, being from Utica, returned to the region in 2019 after working as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State.
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