Chief Okowellos Paxinosa "Hard-Striker" Cornstalk ¹

   Another name for Okowellos was Wawwaythi Whitefish Okowellos “Ionoco” Sunfish.¹

  General Notes:

?Facts and Events
NameChief Okowellos Paxinosa "Hard-Striker" Cornstalk
Alt Name[8][10]Wawwaythi Whitefish Okowellos "Ionoco" Sunfish
Unknown[2][3][11]Chief Okawela
Unknown[2][3]Chief Ocowellos
Alt NamePaxinosa
GenderMale
Birth[7][8][10]1672Ohio, United States
Other[3]1717Conestoga, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
at conference with Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania
Residence?before 1754Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, USA
he was said to hold court here
Other[13]1754Gnadenhutten, Pennsylvania, United States
"In 1754 he, with Tedyuskung, warned the people of Gnadenhuetten to remove to Wajomick (Wyoming), Pa.; but for this their lives would have been in danger. "
Other[6]1754
"He was head chief of the Shawanese in 1754."
Death?after 1754
we know he held court in Winchester until 1754 (needs source)
Residence[4]July 1758Ohio, United States
"but late in July, 1758, set out for the Ohio region"
Alt Death[12]1761



References
Schutz, Noel, and Don Greene. Shawnee Heritage . (Lulu.com, 2008-2015).
? 2.0 2.1 Walkinshaw, Lewis Clark. Annals of southwestern Pennsylvania. (Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox Co., 1974).
"Chief Okawela , otherwise called Ocowellos, came westward from the former Shawnee town at Chillisquaqua..."

? 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sipe, Chester Hale. The Indian chiefs of Pennsylvania. ([New York), 1927.
"Ocowellos at conference which Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania held with the Shawnees, Conestogas, Conoy, and other Indians at Conestoga, in July, 1717, at which time and place he asked them to explain their connection with an attack made by the Senecas upon the Catawbas..."
"The trader, Jonas Davenport, refers to this Indian town in an affidavit made before the Provincial Council on October 29, 1731, when he stated that "on Connemach Creek there are three Shawneese towns, forty-five families, two hundred men," and that their Chief is Okawela."

? Harvey, Oscar Jewell. A history of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: from its first beginnings to the present time, including chapters of newly discovered early Wyoming Valley history, together with many biographical sketches and much genealogical material. (Wilkes-Barre: Reader Press, 1909-1930), 1909.
38 mentions of Paxinosa in this book. "Paxinosa and his Shawanese did not return to the Valley, but late in July, 1758, set out for the Ohio region from Seekaughkunt, where, and in the vicinity of which, they had been living since the Spring of 1756, when they forsook Wyoming."

History of the mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America, 1794.
"Paxnous, being only an ambassador in this business, was satisfied, and even formed a closer acquaintance with the Brethren. His wife, who heard the Gospel preached daily, was so overcome by its divine power, that she began to see her lost estate by nature, prayed and wept incessantly for the forgiveness of sins in the blood of Jesus and earnestly begged for baptism. Her husband, having lived thirty-eight years with her in marriage, to mutual satisfaction, willlngly gave his consent, prolonged his stay at Bethlehem, was present in the chapel, and deeply affected when his wife was baptized by Bishop Spangenberg, during a powerful sensation of the presence of God. The day following they returned home, Paxnous' wife declaring, that she felt as happy as a child new born. Frederic Post accompanied them to Wajomick, partly to look after the baptized, who lived dispersed on the Susquehannah, to partly to lodge those missionaries, who should visit them either from Gnadenhuetten or Bethlehem."

? The book of the Indians of North America, 1833.
by Samuel Gardner Drake "Paxnous was head chief of the Shawanese in 1754."

? Colonial records of Pennsylvania, 1852.
edited by Samuel Hazard "Benjamin asked Paxnous whither he was going with his Family. He answered, to his Land at the Ohio, where he was born, and told him many things he had heard against the English, in Favour of the French."

? 8.0 8.1 Ancestry Family Trees. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Trees.
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19491965&pid=182

MiscellaneaMarescalliana.org
? 10.0 10.1 Chief Cornstalk: Shawnee Lineage Metcalf Family Mews
? Conemaugh Old Town
"Chief Okawela , otherwise called Ocowellos, came westward from the former Shawnee town at Chillisquaqua on the Susquehanna River, and the three towns over which he ruled are conjectured to be by some as Connemach, Black Legs and Keckenepaulin's."(unsourced but also found in Annals of southwestern Pennsylvania - see S1)
? The Family of Tecumseh & Tenskwatawa "Paxinosa was married to a Moravian convert named Elizabeth, and he died in 1761, seven years before Tecumseh was born."
? Shawnee Indian Chiefs and Leaders at Access Genealogy "Paxinos. A Minisink and subsequently a Shawnee chief of the 17th and 18th centuries. He appears first in history in 1680, when as sachem of the Minisink he sent 40 men to join the Mohawk in an expedition against the French, and 10 years later was sent by his tribe to confer with Gov. Dongan of New York in regard to engaging in the war against the same nation. About 1692 or 1694 a small body of Shawnee settled among the Munsee, of whom the Minisink formed a division, and possibly Paxinos may have been one of this party. He was married about 1717. As early at least as 1754 he is referred to as the "old chief" of the Shawnee (Loskiel, Miss. United Breth., pt. 2, 157-160, 1794), and is so designated in the New York Colonial Documents wherever referred to. Heckewelder (Ind. Nations, 88, 1876), confirmed by Brinton, also says he was the chief of the Shawnee."
"His name is given in various forms, as Paxihos, Paxinosa, Paxnos, Paxnous, Paxowan, Paxsinos, etc. "

Okowellos married Katee "Bird" Mekoche. (Katee "Bird" Mekoche was born in 1682 and died in 1740.)