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mix, which are dated between the 1760s and the 1960s, we can propose a very detailedand complete genealogy of Catharine and her family.A. DIARY OF PATRICK CAMPBELL, 1792 (Published 1793) -No record has surfaced to directly state the surname of Catharine. In the quest to detailher ancestry, there is an important diary entry mentioning John Young’s wife, writtenabout 8 years after the Census of Niagara, which includes information as to the maternalancestry of John Young’s wife who was alive in 1792. An assumption here is, since thereis no evidence to the contrary, that this woman is Catharine.On 14 February 1792 a Scottish traveller, Patrick Campbell, visited the Young family attheir farm on the Young Tract along the Grand River near Cayuga and recorded entries ina diary, published in 1793. Here he stated that Mr. Young served as a lieutenant in theIndian Department in the "last war", and was married to a squaw, sister to one of thechiefs of the Mohawke nation who succeeded Captain David (p. 180). He furtheradded, Here I for the first time played cards with a squaw.There is more information to be extracted from this diary, but first it may be useful toseek cross validation of the Mohawk, therefore Six Nations connection via exploringwhat evidence might tie each of the four children to this Native American heritage.1) Abraham YoungThere is a list of “Sachems and Chiefs” who on the 11 th of November 1807 sign a releaseof land to James Muirhead to settle the debts of the deceased Captain Aaron Hill (NA,RG10, Vol. 103, pp.197-9). The last four chiefs follow the Delawares, and all areMohawk and likely related to Capt. Aaron – namely Seth Hill, Seth Thomas, AbrahamStrong, Henry A. Hill. The first is his eldest nephew and the latter is his son.Unfortunately the names on this list are often illegible and clearly errors are made in thespelling of many Indian names. The copyist could have easily mistaken AbrahamYoung’s signature for “Abraham Strong”. An Abraham Strong does not appear in anyother connection with the Grand River, and Strong is not a Mohawk surname. Howeverwhile suggestive, this is not in any way clear evidence.After the death of their father Abraham Young (the eldest son of Lt. John Young andCatharine) in 1815, over a number of years his children sold off their respective shares totheir uncle Joseph Young (below), or to Andrew Alexander Van Every. The matterinvolved extensive litigation, and is documented in the Indian Affairs Papers. One keydocument is the survey map of the Young Tract by Samuel Ryckman. On the back of themap is a list of all of Abraham’s children, framed by a line or bracket, and roughnotations as to which children sold their interest to their uncle Joseph Young. Ryckmanwrote the term “Six Nations Indians” to the right of the list of names (RG10, Vol.3, pp.10-11).2