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Indian Lives and Anecdotes ca. 1886 - 1941 part 1 (ms158_b3f003_001.10.pdf)

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Saul Neptune | Mitchell Neptune

| Susan " | Newell " | John " (Arthur, Saul) | Peter " | son drowned in Connecticut R.

Inf. of Harriet Hunt, Apr. 11, 1930, from Charley Daylight [?] & Mitchell Attean.

The children of John Neptune sure [?] (as father remembered them) (July 22, 1767, May 8, 1865) 1. Saul (Sol?) Neptune | Mitchell Neptune m. Clara (Mitchell) Orono

m. a Notamis | Newel Neptune ((d. Mch. 26, 1907 aet 63 Mary Jane, wife, d. Oct 27, 1907, aet. 62 (see above) Look elsewhere for what old Clara Neptune told me

2. Joe Neptune | son Peter. 3. Mary Cecil married Henry Stanley, the white Indian 4. Susensis - d. of Cholera - lends [?]Living (Sylvia Stanton) 5. Mary Melt (or Mary Necola) | Joe Nicola, author of Red Man

was mother of | Peris [struck through] Pielis Nicola | Toma Nicola, etc a large family m. Peter Necola, a Norridgewok Indian (Clara)

6. Tellis Annis (= Phyllis [struck through] Theresa Agnes) d. recently, 1917.

m. brother N. [struck through] m. Joe Necola, brother of Peter Necola, oldest of 8 more brothers Necola. (Clara)

7. [Entire sentence struck through:] Mary Neptune? mother of Marie (Neptune) Sauhees, was a Notamis, wife of Piel Sauhees. 8. daughter in Canada, called Mahli Glace= Mary Grace. (Clara)

All were large stout women, & very intelligent.

Swasin Neptune and Soccabesin Neptune (father of Peter Soccabesin) were children of a brother of John. Soccabesin's wife was a great scold

The Neptunes were all distinguished by aquiline noses, the Neptune nose being quite a feature. Joe Neptune was a grandson. So said father but I am told it was a notorious [underlined] feature. It was a Neptune feature! (Ranco)

Peter Soccabesin was the Indian dandy, old Soccabesin Neptune's son. He was the one who called grandmother "Kataline" He went hunting and also traded. Was engaged to a Squaw up St. Francis & Otis Ellis cut him out, but afterwards deserted the woman. In 1861 father saw her & a son of Ellis about 17 yrs old. Ellis then married an Irish woman.

Description: Pages from Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's notebook 10 (X)

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Language: English

Date: ca. 1886 - 1941

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