Capt. Hendrick Aupaumut Chapter

Our Chapter meets quarterly each year. We meet at various locations within the bounds of our regional coverage area. The specific dates, times, and locations are yet to be announced. Spouses, other family members, and guests are always welcome.

We also have a Color Guard formation that supports National, State, and local level events. We invite and encourage you to become a member of our Color Guard.

Our Chapter also supports youth programs to include, but not limited to, Scouts, Elementary School Poster Contest, High School Essay Contest, and more. This is a great way to give back to the community.

Chapter Officers

President: David Grover
Vice President: Daniel R Fay
Secretary: Bruce Deadman
Treasurer: Gary McCully
Genealogist:

Our Namesake

Hendrick Aupaumut (ca. 1775-1829) was born about 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 Drawn portrait of Capt. Hendrick Aupaumut Company of Indians in 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 on 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, visit Stockbridge-Munsee History)