Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in width and 8 inches in height.
Language: English
Coverage: Deansboro Cemetery, Deansboro, N.Y.
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The reverse reads:
"David Fowler, a Montauk Indian, was born in a wigwam at Montauk in 1735. He early became concerned over the Montauks retaining their racial purity when he noticed runaway slaves inter-marrying with the Shinnecocks who lived less than 30 miles from the Montauks. When Samson Occum, the Mohegan minister, married his sister Mary, young Fowler found that Occum shared his feelings about inter-marriage with negroes. David Fowler was one of the founders of the first settlemnet of Brothertown, New York where, he settled in 1775. Under his leadership scores of the Montauks left Long Island and settled with the four tribes of New England at their settlement of Brothertown near what is now Deansville, New York.
This famous Montauk married Hannah Garrett, the daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Garrett of the Pequot tribe of Connecticut. His most outstanding feat was during the year of 1766 when he walked from Oneida to Lebanon, then to Springfield, back to Boston, and thence to Oneida, with food for the starving Reverend Samuel Kirkland. He had covered more than 400 miles in ten days. Significant of this young Montauk's energy and ambition was the fact that the first cabin built in Brothertown was his. The inscriptions of the stones read:
David Fowler, died March 31, 1807. Aet., 72 years
Hannah, wife of David Fowler, died August 1811, Aet., 64 years."
