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Last name Quinney
First name Joseph
Display name Joseph Quinney
Other names Joseph Quonney;John Quanaukaunt
Gender m
Affiliations Stockbridge indians
Bio notes Signed several letters to Quakers 1796-1817. Likely the Joseph Quinney who was also known as Joseph Quanaukaunt and became the Community sachem in 1777. Migrated to New York State where he was church deacon and schoolmaster.

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

Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)

New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook

Life of Thomas Eddy