About Captain Pollard
Captain Pollard was a politician.
Ga-on-do-wau-na (died 1841) (Big Tree), known as Captain Pollard among other variants, was a leader of the Seneca people.
Pollard's father was an English trader, whose headquarters appear to have been at Fort Niagara, and his mother was Seneca. His stepmother was Catherine Montour. As a young man, he participated in the American Revolutionary War and was present at the Battle of Wyoming.
Pollard was selected by the Seneca as a war captain at the beginning of the War of 1812, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in July 1813. Some sources place him at the Battle of Chippawa. He was a signatory of the Treaty of Big Tree; Thomas Morris gave him an annuity around the time the treaty was signed, presumably as inducement. He died on April 10, 1841, and was buried in the mission cemetery at Buffalo Creek Reservation.
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Who was Captain Pollard?
Seneca leader
When did Captain Pollard die?
Captain Pollard died on 10 April 1841.
What was Captain Pollard's occupation?
Captain Pollard was a politician.
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