Hendrick Aupaumut (c.1757-1829) was born circa 1757 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. A son of the chief sachem, he enlisted in the revolution, at age 18, on June 23, 1775. In August 1775 he was serving as a private in Captain William Goodrich's Company of Indians, Colonel John Paterson's Regiment, during the siege of Boston. During the 1777 Saratoga campaign Aupaumut acted as the lieutenant of Indian Scouts under Captains Nimham and Mtohksin. The next year, 1778, he survived the massacre of Stockbridge Indians in the Bronx, New York, and took command of the Indian Company on the death of his captain. In 1779 General George Washington promoted him to the temporary rank of captain. He-enlisted regularly and remained in the service through 1782. Captain Aupaumut re-enlisted with he army during the War of 1812 and served under General William Henry Harrison.

In 1829 Hendrick Aupaumut moved to tribal lands on the Fox River near Green Bay. During his later years Aupaumut translated religious text into the Mohican language, wrote a traditional history of the tribe and, after 1811, became chief sachem of the Mohicans. Captain Aupaumut died in 1830, at the age of 72, and is buried in the old Stockbridge Cemetery on the Frank Thelen farm located in Outagamie County near Kaukauna. The Aupaumut (and Konkapot) gravesite is impossible to locate. The Thelen farm no longer exists and the area is overrun with residential development. A state Historical Marker to Aupaumut and Konkapot stand in a Kaukauna city park believed to have been close to the Indian cemetery. A Bicentennial Maker about Aupaumut is located on a traffic island near the intersections of Reaume Street and Hendricks Avenue.

To get to the traffic island marker one goes west from State Highway 55 on 7th Street to Hendricks Avenue. Turn right and (north) and travel two blocks to the site. The park marker is found by taking 10th Street (County Highway Z) west from Highway 55 to Kenneth Street, where one turns left (south) to Buchanan Street. Turn right (west) on Buchanan to left on Thelen. One block brings one to the park and the marker.

As an aside, near and south of the Calumet County village of Stockbridge, south of the City of Kaukauna on State Highway 55, is another Stockbridge Indian Cemetery. An engraved stone in that cemetery lists Hendrick Aupaumut, Jr.

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