Person: Jean Baptiste Richardville, Myaamia Name: Pinšiwa
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Nationality: Myaamia
Family Group: -
ID: 21
Gender: MaleDate of Birth: Year 1761
Location of Birth: Kiihkayonki?Date of Death: Knw 08-13-1841
Location of Death: Kiihkayonki -
Biography/Notes:
Jean Baptiste Richardville, known to his Myaamia relatives as Pinšiwa, was born in 1761, son of Tahkamwah (Marie Louise Richardville, nee Beaubien) and Joseph Richardville. His path to prominence was eased by his important family. Not only was Tahkamwah an influential akimaahkwia (female leader) of Kiihkayonki, but her brothers would rise in esteem over the course of Pinšiwa's life. His mother's brothers included the akima Pakaana and Mihšihkinaahkwa (Little Turtle).
Alias:
- Peshewa
- Peshawa
Related Documents:
- Removal blog post by Diane Hunter
- Exemptions blog post by Diane Hunter
- Wikipedia page Jean Baptiste Richardville
- Letter from Allen Hamilton and copies of deeds and affidavits relating to Black Loon's land sale, 1851
- Copy of Schedule of lands granted by the Treaty of St. Mary's in 1818, undated
- Letter from the Office of Indian Affairs, February 1852
- List of papers pertaining to the case of Keenqua-tak-qua or Long hair, undated
- Copy of Schedule of Lands granted by the Treaty of St. Mary's in 1818, 23 October 1826
- Letter from John Tipton to J.H Eaton, 24 July 1829
- Letter from John Roche to Allen County, Indiana, 2 July 1851
- Letter from John Tipton to Col. McKenny, June 1829
- Petition of the heirs of Long hair to President John Adams, undated
- Copy of the 1826 Treaty land Schedule, 9 January 1828
- Letter from General Land Office to John Tipton, 26 June 1829
- McKenney sends deeds from John B Richardville to the Office of Indian Affairs, 9 January 1828
- Certified copy of indenture between John B. Richardville and the U.S., 29 October 1827
- Case No. 41, Children of John B Richardville, undated
Related Places:
- R0030000: Richardville St. Mary's Reserve
- R0040000: Richardville St. Mary's Reserve (East)
- R0050000: Richardville 27 Mile Reserve
- R0060000: Susan Reserve
- R0300000: Richardville Pipe Creek Reserve
- R0310000: Richardville Reserve 031
- R0320000: Richardville Reserve 032
- R0410000: Richardville Reserve 041
- R0520000: Ten Sections Reserve, Forks of the Wabash
- R0050002:
- R0640000: John B. Richardville Reserve #13
- R0650000: John B. Richardville Reserve #14
- R0660000: John B. Richardville Reserve #2
- R1340000: Seek's Village Reserve
- R0760000: John B. Richardville Reserve #1
- R0770000: John B. Richardville Reserve #14
- R0780000: John B. Richardville Reserve #5
- R0800000: John B. Richardville Reserve #18
- R1130000: John B. Richardville Reserve #6
- R1180000: John B. Richardville Reserve #55
- R1190000: Float Claim #1, Broad Ripple Section
- R1200000: Float Claim #2
- R1210000: Float Claim #3
- R1220000: Float Claim #4
- R1240000: Float Claim #6, Big Pipe Creek Section
- R1230000: Float Claim #5, Twin Spring Section
- R1250000: Float Claim #7, Wild Cat Creek Section
Birth
Year 1761
Kiihkayonki?
1818 Treaty at St. Mary's
October 6, 1818
Articles of a treaty made and concluded, at St. Mary's, in the State of Ohio, between Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke, Commissioners of the United States, and the Miame nation of Indians. ARTICLE 1. The Miami nation of Indians cede to the United States the following tract of country: Beginning at the Wabash river, where the present Indian boundary line crosses the same, near the mouth of Raccoon creek; thence, up the Wabash river, to the reserve at its head, near Fort Wayne; ...
1826 Treaty at the Mississinewa
October 23, 1826
TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1826. Oct. 23, 1826. | 7 Stat., 300. | Proclamation, Jan. 24, 1827. Articles of a treaty made and concluded, near the mouth of the Mississinewa, upon the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, this twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, between Lewis Cass, James B. Ray, and John Tipton, Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs and Warriors of the Miami Tribe of Indians. ARTICLE 1. The Miami Tr...
1830 Richardville to Chapman
May 21, 1830
"the East half of the Northernmost of two sections of land granted to" him in 1818 "the same being at what is called the twenty seven mile creek, suppose to contain three hundred and twenty acres be the same more or less."...
1834 Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash
October 23, 1834
TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1834. Oct. 23, 1834. | 7 Stat., 458. | 7 Stat., 463. | Proclamation, Dec. 22, 1837. Articles of a treaty between the United States and the Miami tribe of Indians, concluded at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, on the 23d day of October, 1834, by and between William Marshall, commissioner of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of said tribe. ARTICLE 1. The Miami tribe of Indians agree to cede to the United States the following described t...
1838 Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash
November 6, 1838
TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1838. Nov. 6, 1838. | 7 Stat., 569. | Proclamation, Feb. 8, 1839. Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Forks of the Wabash in the State of Indiana, between the United States of America, by her Commissioner Abel C. Pepper, and the Miami tribe of Indians on the sixth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. ARTICLE 1. The Miami tribe of Indians hereby cede to the United States all that tract of land lying south of the Waba...
1840 Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash
November 28, 1840
TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1840. Nov. 28, 1840. | 7 Stat., 582. | Proclamation, June 7, 1841. Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, this twenty-eighth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty, between Samuel Milroy and Allen Hamilton, acting (unofficially) as commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, warriors and headmen of the Miami tribe of Indians. ARTICLE 1. THE Miami tribe o...
Jean Baptiste Richardville's Will
April 9, 1841
Will of John B. Richardville In the name of God, Amen! I, John B. Richardville of the county of Allen Indiana, Principal chief of the Miami Tribe of Indians, being of sound mind and Memory, knowing the uncertainty of life & desirous to dispose of my affairs while in a sound state of mind, doth make, publish and declare this instrument of writing as my last will and testament in manner following, to wit: First, I commit my soul to that God who gave it, my burial to be under the direction o...
Death
August 13, 1841