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This great grandfather, John Washington, commissioned by Gov Berkeley to find redress from the Doeg Indians who were accused of a killing, knew he was heading into trouble so he made a Will before he went. What happened later across the Potomac from the future Mt Vernon is in dispute. A killing of Susquehannock Indian Chiefs who came out in peace to parley occurred. Then after that, the rest of the Susquehannock holed up in their fort under siege for 6 weeks. John Washington was rebuked for the killing of the Indian Chiefs by Gov Berkeley of VA, who famously said, “If they had killed by my father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.” . Figure 31. On June 11, 1776 while the question of independence was being debated, the visiting Iroquois chiefs were formally invited into the meeting hall of the Continental Congress. There a speech was delivered, in which they were addressed as “Brothers” and told of the delegates’ wish that the “friendship” between them would “continue as long as the sun shall shine” and the “waters run.” The speech also expressed the hope that the new Americans and the Iroquois act “as one people, and have but one heart.”[18] After this speech, an Onondaga chief requested permission to give Hancock an Indian name. The Congress graciously consented, and so the presidennside the halls of Congress on the eve of American Independence, the impact of Iroquois ideas on the founders is unmistakable. History is indebted to Charles Thomson, an adopted Delaware, whose knowledge of and respect for American Indians is reflected in the attention that he gave to this ceremony in the records of the Continental Congress.[19] Artwork by John Kahionhes Fadden. As an aside, 2 years after that moment above, another battle of Wyoming 3 July 1778 AND still almost a year after the Wyoming Massacre, the devastating Sullivan Expedition began 18 June 1779t was renamed “Karanduawn, or the Great Tree.” With the Iroquois chiefs inside the halls of Congress on the eve of American Independence, the impact of Iroquois ideas on the founders is unmistakable. History is indebted to Charles Thomson, an adopted Delaware, whose knowledge of and respect for American Indians is reflected in the attention that he gave to this ceremony in the records of the Continental Congress.[19] Artwork by John Kahionhes Fadden. As an aside, 2 years after that moment above, another battle of Wyoming 3 July 1778 AND still almost a year after the Wyoming Massacre, the devastating Sullivan Expedition began 18 June 1779 Washington fulfills this name’s destiny Washington writes to Sullivan, 31 May 1779 cementing Washington’s fulfilling the name’s prophecy of Town Destroyer. “The expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes of the six nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents.1 The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.. After you have very thoroughly completed the destruction of their settlements; if the Indians should show a disposition for peace, I would have you to encourage it, on condition that they will give some decisive evidence of their sincerity by delivering up some of the principal instigators of their past hostility into our hands—Butler, Brandt, the most mischievous of the tories that have joined them… But you will not by any means listen to ⟨any⟩ overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected—It is likely enough their fears if they are unable to oppose us, will compel them to offers of peace, or policy may lead them, to endeavour to amuse us in this way to gain time and succour for more effectual opposition. Our future security will be in their inability to injure us the distance to which they are driven and in the terror with which the severity of the chastisement they receive will inspire ⟨them.⟩ Peace without this would be fallacious and temporary…” . 1. By GW’s account the name “Towntaker” (variously rendered as Town-destroyer) was bestowed upon him by the Seneca chief Half-King in 1753, when he met that chief on his way to Fort Le Boeuf. As GW explained in an undated memorandum on David Humphreys’ draft biography of GW: “It was on this occasion he was named by the half-King (as he was called) and the tribes of Nations with whom he treated—Caunotaucarius (in English) the Town taker; which name being registered in their Manner & communicated to other Nations of Indians, has been remembered by them ever since in all their transactions with him during the late war” (Comments on, in Papers, Confederation Series description begins W. W. Abbot et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1992–97. description ends, 5:514–26; Zagarri, David Humphreys’ “Life of General Washington,” description begins Rosemarie Zagarri, ed. David Humphreys’ “Life of General Washington” with George Washington’s “Remarks.” Athens, Ga., 1991. description ends 10). . .. —————————————————————————————- So, what about John Washington? No source for the claim that George Washington inherited this Indian name from his great grandfather is cited in this footnote from the excellent Founders Online website: 37. GW inherited the Indian name given to his great-grandfather, John Washington. The name signified “town taker” or “devourer of villages.” In his “Biographical Memoranda,” comments written in 1786 on a projected biography of him by David Humphreys, GW stated that during the 1753 journey to the French commandant he “was named by the half-King (as he was called) and the tribes of Nations with whom he treated, Caunotaucarius (in English) the Town taker; which name being registered in their Manner and communicated to other Nations of Indians, has been remembered by them ever since in all their transactions with him during the late War” (anonymous donor). George Washington tells his trusted aid de Camp, his biographer, that he George was given this name, but not that he necessarily inherited it from his great grandfather. That claim this name was orginally given to John Washington, great grandfather of George Washington, is echoed on many other web sites over and over but no citing of the source is ever given.. Found no reference to the name of Town Destroyer or Conotocarious or any of its various spellings in Douglas Southall Freeman’s research on John Washington. .However, Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence. There’s a huge story here, ending during the Nathaniel Bacon Rebellion. And in there we have not yet found evidence of the name Town Destroyer applied – YET. Stay tuned. .