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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] trader. RED JACKET was a full-blooded Seneca. Both were distinguished for their eloquence, and both were engaged in the border wars of the revolution as inveterate enemies of the colo nists. The former died in 1836, at the age of one hundred and one years, and the latter in 1830, aged about ninety years. PASSACONNAWAY, who was at the head of the Pennacooks at the time of the discovery, was one of the most distinguished men of the Indian nations. " His name," says Schoolcraft, " is indicative of his warlike character — Papisseconewa, as writ ten by himself, meaning The Child of the Bear." We first hear of him in 1627 or 8.

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