| Last name | Williams |
| First name | Eleazer |
| Display name | Eleazer Williams |
| Birth date | 1788 |
| Death date | 1858 |
| Birth place | quebe |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | Mohawk indians, Episcopalian Church |
| Bio notes | Canadian clergyman and missionary of Mohawk descent. In 1817, was appointed to be a missionary to the Oneida people in upstate New York. In 1820 and 1821, led delegations of Native Americans to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they secured a cession of land from the Menominee and Winnebago tribes in the Fox River Valley at Little Chute and along Duck Creek. Published tracts and a spelling book in the Iroquois language and translated the Book of Common Prayer into Iroquois. In 1839 began to make the claim that he was the French Lost Dauphin, but openly became a pretender in the 1850s. |
Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook