A undated portrait probably from around 1889 by an unknown artist of Shikellamy, a chief of the Oneida who were part of the Iroquois Confederacy. The portrait appeared in Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, published in 1889.
Shikellamy was the overseer for the Six Nations of the Shawnee and Lenape Tribes along the Susquehanna River.
His birth date is not known. He made his first documented appearance in Philadelphia in 1728, when he was living in a village near the present Milton, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His importance to Lykens Valley history is that he was friendly and welcoming to the travelers from Philadelphia to Sunbury (then Shamokin), along the Tulpehocken Path which crossed the mountain to Pine Grove thence across the valley to Klingerstown. One of those he guided through the area was Conrad Weiser.
Shikellamy died on 6 December 1748 of an illness contracted on one of his journeys.
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