Tanneyarh his mark
Presumably Mohawk, with connections to Mohican and Schaghticoke, Tanneyarh’s mark appears here on a transfer of land at present-day Schenectady where he is identified as a sachem of Kannesyoharre (today spelled Canajoharie). Tanneyarh’s homelands exist in parts of so-called “Upstate New York” along the Mohawk River. This deed, written in Dutch, outlines land “situated on the north side of the Magauge River.. And up the river to the Kanide Kills, near the flats…” (place names spelled as they appear in the deed). The land transferred for “155 pieces of 8” a value that is exceedingly hard to quantify in today’s dollars, but could perhaps be the equivalent of a few thousand (2,000-3,000) dollars today.
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Signed June 9, 1735. Seen at the Newberry Library.