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Chief Oppaymolleh Olomipus Sassoonan, of the Seneca

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: circa 1760 (71-88)
Immediate Family:

Husband of N.N.
Father of Snow in Face

Occupation: Seneca Indian Chief
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About Allemykoppy

From the Horn Papers (Diaries).

Snow In Face, the daughter of Oppaymolieh, beloved by all Indians, by Devil's Itch Pox at Aliquippa Spring in winter season, died in March, 1737 ( ?). (Snow In Face was by Bowlegs say, a full sister to Queen Aliquippa the friend of Gist and Washington, and Virginia).

From http://beavercountywriters.blogspot.com/2012/06/queen-aliquippa-fac...

....however, there is another “legendary” version that claims her (“Queen” Aliquippa, of the Seneca) birth took place in the year 1706 and that she had a twin sister who went by the name of “Snow in the Face”, who was born in a remote Indian village called “Indian Ridge” in Washington County, Pa. But this claim has no merit to the current evidence of what little is already known.

Sources

  • Page 118 of The Horn papers; early westward movement on the Monongahela and upper Ohio, 1765-1795 Author Horn, William Franklin, 1870-,Greene County Historical Society, Waynesburg, Pa

Notes

The husband of “Queen” Aliquippa, of the Seneca has not been identified.

From http://woodlandindians.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5534

In all likelihood, “Queen” Aliquippa, of the Seneca father was a man of importance, perhaps a chief, with the Mingos. Her husband may have been a chief as will, but this is another point of confusion. One historian surmises that her husband was Connodaghtoh, a Mingo who died shortly after the 1701 encounter with William Penn. Another names Allemykoppy, a Seneca chief, as her mate. At least one other reference states that she was married to the Seneca chief Alleguippas. (While Alleguippas was in central and western Pennsylvania around the same time period as Aliquippa, it seems most likely that the two have been linked only by the similarity of their names.) Whatever the case, she seems to have outlived her husband, and apparently inherited his position of importance in the community. In the words of another Seneca chief of the era, Chief Half-King Tanacharisson (or the Half-King as the British called him), it was not unusual for women to occupy a position of power with the Iroquois. "Women have great influence on our young warriors," he said, "It is no new thing to take women into our councils, particularly among the Senecas." This was becoming increasingly true in the mid-1700s, as frequent skirmishes depleted the ranks of the male warriors and the tribal system among the Iroquois began to break down.
Kanuksusy was her son. A daughter, “Summer Eve,” is also seen on Wikipedia with no further information.



Seneca Indian

His marriage to “Queen” Aliquippa, of the Seneca is not proven

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Allemykoppy's Timeline

1680
1680
Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States
1706
1706
Indian Ridge, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
1760
1760
Age 80