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CHIEF OF THE SENECAS CORNPLANTER. Kiontwogky or Cornplanter. Superb Colored Portrait, after the Painting by C.B. King. (M’Kenney &; Hall). Large folio, 20 x 14½". Phila. 1836(1837). 20.00 He was one of the parties to the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784, when a large cession of territory was made by the Indians; at the treaty of Fort Harmer, 5 years afterwards, he took the lead in conveying an immense tract of country to the American govern- ment, and became so unpopular that his life was threatened by his tribe.