Bucktooth "Soh-so-wa" Bucktooth

Seneca
Soh-so-wa "Big cap/Large cap"

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"The original settlement at West Salamanca was named Bucktooth for an Indian who settled there before the Reservation was surveyed in 1798." -Allegany Oxbow by Charles Congdon; pg. 183
In the present, there is still an area known as "Bucktooth" through which runs an old, long road -Bucktooth Run. The road stretches between Salamanca and Little Valley (Napoli).

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• Born at a Seneca Town on the Genesee Flats, known as "Gah-ne-da-ont-wah" or "Poured-out-of-hemlock-boughs"
• Fought at the Groveland Ambuscade during the Revolutionary War. * see below
• Fought in the War of 1812
• Owned and worked 10 acres of land between Little Valley Creek and Bucktooth Run. Six acres was corn,.
• He had three horse, a heifer and 11 hogs.
• Allegany Oxbow: A History of Allegany State Park and the Allegany Reserve of the Seneca Nation by Charles Congdon

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• According to Dr. Draper, Bucktooth was at the "swamp ambuscade" at Conesus during the Revolutionary War (http://grovelandny.org/About_Us/Historical/Ambuscade/ambuscade.html) along with Chief Cornplanter, Little Beard, Farmer's Brother, Red Jacket and Con-ne-di-yeu. Bucktooth was a witness to the capture and killing of Lt. Boyd and Michael Parker, but did not participate in it. (Draper, Lyman notes, pg. 103 from February 14, 1850). "The Groveland Ambuscade resulted in the death of Indian guide Han Yost and the loss of 16 of General Sullivan’s men at Groveland and the torture death of Lt. Thomas Boyd and Michael Parker at Little Beard’s Town (near Cuylerville)." http://grovelandny.org/About_Us/Historical/Ambuscade/ambuscade.html.
• "On the western front of the Revolutionary war the British and Indians carried out a campaign of annihilation against the farms and settlements in New York and Pennsylvania. Under instructions from Congress, George Washington sent General Sullivan to destroy the Indian economy and throw them wholly on the British for support."