John Gray

John Gray (aka Ignace Hatchiorauquasha) was born in Cambridge New York in 1795, and raised in Akwesasne (St. Regis), New York, was a half-Iroquois half-Scottish American fur trader.

His father, William Gray, was Scottish but lived in the Mohawk town and operated a mill.

John practiced some Mohawk traditions and married Anne Marie Teionaose who was also part Mohawk. However, John was also Catholic. He played the fiddle. He retired in Kansas City and was killed in a dispute with a neighbor in 1843.

Grey's River in Wyoming, Grey's Hole and Grays Lake in Idaho are named after him.