Nimwha (or Munseeka) Cornstalk

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Nimwha (or Munseeka) Cornstalk

Birthdate:
Birthplace: West Virginia, United States
Death: 1780 (59-60)
Ohio, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Okawela and Meskwa-katee "Red Skirt" "Katee” Mekoche, "Of Metis ethnicity"
Husband of Daughter, of Wewandochwalend
Brother of Hokolesqua, Sachem Cornstalk; Nonhelema "The Grenadier Squaw" Cornstalk and Halowas “Silverheels” Cornstalk
Half brother of Sarah Catherine House

Managed by: Lloyd Alfred Doss, Jr.
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About Nimwha (or Munseeka) Cornstalk

Kellogg, Louise Phelps, and Reuben Gold Thwaites. The revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777: compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1992).

"Nimwha (or Munseeka) was a Shawnee chief, brother of Cornstalk, whom he succeeded as head of the tribe. He took part in Pontiac's Conspiracy, and was present at Bouquet's treaty (1764) as well as those of Fort Pitt (1768 and 1775). In 1778 he led the detachment that captured Daniel Boone, and the following year headed the besiegers of Fort Laurens. His death occurred early in 1780. — Ed."

https://books.google.com/books?id=mydlCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=...

Sources

  • Calloway, Colin G. "'We Have Always Been the Frontier': The American Revolution in Shawnee Country." American Indian Quarterly 16, no. 1 (1992): 39-52. Accessed August 8, 2021. doi:10.2307/1185604.
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Nimwha (or Munseeka) Cornstalk's Timeline

1720
1720
West Virginia, United States
1780
1780
Age 60
Ohio, United States