Tuhbenahneequay was a Mississauga

Mississaugas

The Mississaugas are a subtribe of the Anishinaabe-speaking First Nations people located in southern Ontario, Canada. They are closely related to the Ojibwa...

 Indian from the Burlington Heights

Burlington, Ontario

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 area of Upper Canada

Upper Canada

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. The daughter of chief Wahbanosay

Wahbanosay

Wahbanosay was a Mississaugas chief of the Eagle doodem, in the Burlington, Ontario area. He was the negotiator for the Mississaugas of the Gunshot treaty in 1783...

 and Puhgashkish, she married Augustus Jones

Augustus Jones

Augustus Jones was an American-born Upper Canadian farmer, land speculator, magistrate, militia captain and surveyor. Jones trained as a surveyor in New York City, and fled as a United Empire Loyalist to Upper Canada...

 in a Mississauga ceremony sometime in the 1790s. Their first child, Thayendanegea

John Jones (Ojibwa chief)

John Jones was a Mississauga Ojibwa teacher, missionary and Chief.Fathered by Augustus Jones, Jones was born to Tuhbenahneequay on July 10, 1798 in the Humber River valley. Augustus Jones and Tuhbenahneequay had been married in the 1790s in an Ojibwa ceremony. Jones was named Thayendanegea,...

 was born in 1798. The same year, Jones married another woman, Sarah Tekarihogen, in a Christian ceremony. Polygamy was an acceptable practice among the Mississaugas, and Jones lived with Tekarihogen at his farm in Stoney Creek

Stoney Creek, Ontario

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 and with Tuhbenahneequay as his wife while surveying. Tuhbenahneequay was baptised Sarah Henry by an American Methodist circuit-rider in 1801. She was the first Mississauga woman baptised a Methodist. Despite her baptism, she refused to become a Christian. Her second child by Augustus Jones, Kahkewaquonaby, later known as the missionary Peter Jones, was born in 1802. The same year, Jones ended his relationship with Tuhbenahneequay as he wanted the respect of his white Christian neighbours and Tuhbenahneequay refused to convert. Both children were left with Tuhbenahneequay.

She later married Chief Mesquacosy, with whom she had 8 children, including Maungwudaus

George Henry (disambiguation)

-Persons whose first and last names are George Henry:* George Henry , baseball player* George Henry , Scottish painter* George Morrison Reid Henry , entomologist and ornithologist...

 in 1811 and Wahbunoo in 1817. After the conversion of her son Kahkewaquonaby to Methodism

Methodism

Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...

 in 1823, she was quickly converted, and moved to Davis' Hamlet where he was living in 1824. She followed him to the Credit Mission

Credit Mission

The Credit Mission was an Indian Mission on the Credit River in Upper Canada.Funded with the proceeds from Purchase #22 or #23, building began in 1826 under the leadership of Peter Jones. When construction began, about 200 Indians lived at the settlement in temporary structures. Thirty log cabins...

 around 1826.

One hundred fifty trees at Toronto Carrying Place Trail were named Tuhbenahneequay Ancient Grove in her honour.