*Excerpted from "The Oriskany Battle of Oneida Hanyery and Mohawk Joseph Brant," by Anthony Wonderly, Historian. Click here for the full text and end notes

Hanyery* (about 1720 – before Nov. 1794)
• Oneida chief warrior
• Wolf Clan
• First appears as Han Ury, alias Tewahowagarahe, a warrior serving with British forces, Niagara campaign, French and Indian War, 1759
• Indian name, Tehawenkaragwen, “he who takes up the snowshoe”
• Pro-American

*Hanyery may be one form of the German/Dutch dialect of the Mohawk Valley for "John George" in English. Hanyery was referred to as "Indian George" and "Capt. George". He was also written in English as Hans Jurie and John Jury. For a time in the late 1780s, Hanyery was called "Ojistalale" or Grasshopper, a name he bore in his role as counselor to a young sachem of the Wolf clan.

Hanyery has often been called "Doxstader". He never signed documents that way and the name was not applied to him during his lifetime. The surname Doxstader was taken up by his children.

Joseph Brant (1743-1807)
• Mohawk
• Wolf Clan
• Indian Name, Thayendanegea, “two sticks of wood bound together”
• Educated and advanced through British Indian service (his sister Molly was the common-law wife of Sir William Johnson, Royal Indian Superintendent, Northern Department)
• Had married an Oneida woman, Neggen Aoghyatonghsera (Peggie), married in 1765 – died in 1771
• In 1773 he had married Peggie’s half-sister Susannah who was probably Oneida too. She died shortly after.
• Took his third Oneida wife, Margaret, daughter of Skenandoah, sometime during the Revolutionary War.
• Pro-British