Family Photos

• Syrenious Denny (7 KB)
  Syrenious Denny served both with the 2nd Wis Calvary, enlisting 16 October 1861 and mustering out on 19 August 1862 and also with the 38th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers - Company C from the 24th of August 1864 to the 14th of June 1865. He was wounded at the battle of Petersburg by a musket ball hitting his knee.
• Polly Dennie DeFerriere (14 KB)
  Polly, the daughter of Lewis Denny was painted by Frederick Spencer. The portrait hangs in the Madison County Historical Society, New York.
• Harriet Elizabeth Mykel (Michel) Denny (1 KB)
  Harriet's father, Gilbert Mykel (Michel), died before Harriet was two years old. Her mother, Esther Johnson, remarried John Crosly Hammer, a Brothertown Indian. Harriet was raised in Brothertown, Calumet County, WI.
• Edward Paul Bauer (2 KB)
  E. Paul Bauer, my father, was born in Fond du Lac but raised in Milwaukee.
• Clara Belle Denny (2 KB)
  Clara Belle Denny was my grandmother, a very outspoken, strong woman who taught her children their Oneida heritage.
• John Crosley Hammer, Husband of Esther Johnson (145 KB)
  John Crosley Hammer, a Narragansett Indian was a Peacemaker with the Brothertown Indians in Wisconsin and one of the headmen of the tribe.
• Illinois Country 1700 - 1763 (101 KB)
  Lewis Denny was born "on the Illinois River" in 1740. The Dana, Danio family were French fur trappers.
• Lester Skeesuck, a Narragansett-Mohegan Indian (173 KB)
  Lester Skeesuck, was a member of the Brothertown Indians. He left Wisconsin and returned to Connecticut to live.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Skeesuck (View PDF)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Lewis Denny


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of George Dockstater


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Carolus Josephus Anderhalten


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Manghaughwont

Related Files

• Signatures of Mohegan Indians on List of 1746 (2 KB)
  "Appeal of the Mohegan Indians agst the Colony of Connecticut & Others", (Dated 23 July 1746) from MOHEGAN INDIANS IN CONNECTICUT in 1746, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• JOHNSON.--Mohegan tribe, Mohegan, Conn. (5 KB)
  Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England by W. DeLoss Love, Ph.D. Published by the Pilgrim Press, Chicago and Boston 1898.
• The migration of the Johnsons from New York to Wis (3 KB)
  The migration of the Brothertown Indians from New York to Wisconsin included the Johnsons, Skeesucks and Hammers.
• SKEESUCK - Narragansett tribe, Charlestown, RI (4 KB)
  Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England by W. DeLoss Love, PhD. Published by the Pilgrim Press, Chicago and Boston, 1898
• Students of Eleazer Wheelock's Moor Charity School (3 KB)
  Rev. Eleazer Wheelock opened a school for Indian students from New England and New Jersey in 1754. The Indians became schoolmasters and ministers to various Indian tribes in the east.

Related Links

• Oneida Indian Ancestry
• The Betrayal of Samson Occom
• Pomeroy's History of Marshall Township (1851)
• Official Homepage of the Brothertown Indians of WI
• Brothertown History by Indian Country
• Sketch of the Brothertown Indians by Thomas Commuck
• Lyman Draper Papers on the Denny and Doxtator families.
• Ancestry of the Immigrants of the Vallee de la Thur, France
• Lakeside Cemetery, Stockbridge, Calumet Co., WI
• Samson Occom 1723 - 1792 Minister, Diarist, Hymn Writer