About Manuscripts Profiles Maps Map Gallery Credits
Last name OBeal
First name Charles
Display name Usla-eye;OBail
Gender m
Affiliations Seneca indians
Bio notes Seneca chief, signed 1837 Remonstrance of Chiefs and 1838 letter to PYM. Also signed 1826 agreement at Buffalo Creek. Cornplanter’s son and Handsome Lake’s nephew. Charles and his older half-brother Henry—who could read and write, knew some English, and had lived in Philadelphia and New York for a few years—often acted as assistants to their father and uncle.

Mentioned in:

New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook

William Allinson Diary, Volume 1

Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue