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Last name Geerheart
First name Frederick
Display name Frederick Gearheart
Other names Frederick Gerard;Frederick Gearhart;Frederick Geerheart
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Bio notes Frederick Gearheart lived near Union Springs, close to the Cayuga settlement and Onondago reservation; he lodged James Cooper and John Peirce in 1796. Gearhart had settled in Cayuga County by 1790 and was a blacksmith by trade.

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

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