Person:Netawatwees, Delaware Chief (1)
Netawatwees _____, Delaware Chief
b.1678
d.31 Oct 1776
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  1. John Killbuck, Sr., Delaware Indian Medicine Man and War LeaderBef 1717 -
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Name Netawatwees _____, Delaware Chief
Gender Male
Birth? 1678
Marriage Bef 1717 to Unknown
Death? 31 Oct 1776
Reference Number? Q6998671?


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Netawatwees or King Newcomer (c. 1686–1776, Lenape) was Sachem (principle Chief) and spiritual leader of the Delaware. His name, meaning "skilled advisor" or "first in council," is spelled in a variety of ways including Netaut Twelement, Na-taut-whale-mund, Neattawatways, Netahutquemaled, and Netodwehement.

During the French and Indian War, he escaped some of the hostilities by migrating to the confluence of the Tuscarawas and Muskingum rivers, where he was chief of Gekelukpechink. village. Later he moved to the village of Coshocton, a center of Lenape settlement on the Tuscarawas. Both these villages were in present-day Ohio. He was among the signatories of the Fort Pitt treaty with Continental/United States forces. He allied with the rebels in the hope of gaining an all-Native American state in the new nation.

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