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Last name Webster
First name Ephraim
Display name Ephraim Webster
Birth date 1762
Death date 1824
Birth place New Hampshire
Death place New York
Gender m
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Bio notes First white settler in Central New York, arrived in 1786. Acted as translator and agent for the Onondaga tribe on several land treaties with the State of New York. For three decades the Onondagas trusted and relied on him, but later felt betrayed by him.

Mentioned in:

Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.

John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook

Subscriptions from Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting for Promoting the Civilization and Well-Being of the Indian Natives

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom