Ohio History Central - Historic Indian - People - White Eyes

"White Eyes was a chief of the Delaware Indians. His Indian name was Koquethagechton. Due to his fair coloring, he was known to the settlers and frontiersmen as White Eyes. The date of his birth is unknown, but it is estimated to be about 1730. By 1762, he was living in a Delaware town south of Pittsburgh. He moved to the Ohio Country prior to the American Revolution.

In 1776, White Eyes replaced Newcomer as the principal chief of the Delawares. He used his influence among the Delawares to consolidate the tribe and settle in Ohio. The Delawares settled near present-day Coshocton. White Eyes also used his influence to encourage the Indians to make peace with the white settlers, including missionaries from the Moravian Church who settled near the Delawares in the 1770s.


The Delawares selected White Eyes to represent the tribe before the Continental Congress in 1776. Congress officially thanked him for promoting peace between the natives and the settlers. He received three hundred dollars and two horses with saddles and bridles. White Eyes agreed that, in the event of war with the British, the Delawares would aid the Americans. He also proposed that the Congress allow the Delawares to form the fourteenth state of the newly independent America."

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