Hendrick Aupaumut (c. 1775-1829) was born circa 1757 in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was a resident in Stockbridge at the time of
his initial enlistment in 
the Revolutionary Forces, June 23, 1775. Aupaumut
served as a private in Captain William Goodrich's Company of Indians of
Colonel John Patterson's Regiment, according to a muster roll dated August
1, 1775. Colonel Patterson's Regiment was stationed with the army near
Boston and may have been present at the battle of Bunker Hill, although
Colonel Patterson's Regiment was under orders from general Artemas Ward,
stationed with Colonel Thomas Gardner's Regiment at the redoubt on Prospect
Hill. The redoubt was one of the major fortifications protecting the
Cambridge Road.
Aupaumut is recorded as having received the enlistment bounty of "an
overcoat or equivalent money" on February 27, 1776, and also that he
was present at Van Schaik's Island September 5, 1777, when he received
thirty flints for use of the Indians. By 1778 Aupaumut had become a
lieutenant in Captain Ninham's Company of Indians and the same year, in a
battle in which Washington's Army engaged the British at Three Plains,
Aupaumut received a battlefield promotion to Captain. Captain Aupaumut had
been present at Saratoga as well as other actions as a scout for American
forces. He re-enlisted regularly and remained in the service through 1782.
After the war, in 1791, he was presented a sword by General Washington.
Captain Aupaumut re-enlisted with the army during the war of 1812 and served
under General William Henry Harrison.
In 1821 Hendrick Aupaumut moved with his people to lands they had
purchased from the Menominee Indians near Green Bay, with the idea of
establishing a new colony. Captain Aupaumut died in September, 1829, and is
buried on the Frank Thelen farm in the old Stockbridge Indian Cemetery near
Kaukauna, Wisconsin.
(For some additional information about Capt Aupaumut and American
Indians during the Revolutionary War Period, check the following
links)
Wisconsin Society
