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| Chief Shabbonee 1775? to 1859 |
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| Chief Shabbonee Marker Old 424 Defiance Ohio |
Shabbona (Shabona), Ottawa Indian who would later in his life become a Pottawatomie Chief, was born near the the Maumee River,(Defiance Ohio) in Ohio about 1775, and served under Tecumseh from 1807 to the Battle of the Thames in 1813. In 1810 Shabona accompanied Tecumseh and Capt. Billy Caldwell to the home of the Pottawatomie and other tribs within the present limits of Illinois and Wisconsin, to secure their co-operation in driving the white settlers out of the country. At the battle of the Thames, Shabona was my the side of Tecumseh when he fell, and both he and Caldwell, losing faith in their British allies, soon after submitted to the United State through Gen. Cass at Detroit.
Shabona was opposed to Black Hawk in 1832, and did much to thwart the plans of Black Hawk and aid the whites. Having married a daughter of a Pottawatomie Chief, who had a village on the Illinois River east of the present city of Ottawa Ill., Shabona lived there for some time, but finally moved 25 miles north to Shabona's Grove in De Kalb Ill.. Here Shabona remained till 1837, when he moved to Western Missouri. Black Hawk's followers having a reservation near by, hostilities began between them, in which a son and nephew of Shabona were killed. Shabona finally returned to his old home in Illinois, but found it occupied by whites, who drove him from the grove that bore his name. Some friends then bought for him twenty acres of land on Mazon Creek near Morris Ill., where Shabona died, 27 July 1859.
N. Matson Personal Friend of Shabona (Chicago 1878)
Shabona was opposed to Black Hawk in 1832, and did much to thwart the plans of Black Hawk and aid the whites. Having married a daughter of a Pottawatomie Chief, who had a village on the Illinois River east of the present city of Ottawa Ill., Shabona lived there for some time, but finally moved 25 miles north to Shabona's Grove in De Kalb Ill.. Here Shabona remained till 1837, when he moved to Western Missouri. Black Hawk's followers having a reservation near by, hostilities began between them, in which a son and nephew of Shabona were killed. Shabona finally returned to his old home in Illinois, but found it occupied by whites, who drove him from the grove that bore his name. Some friends then bought for him twenty acres of land on Mazon Creek near Morris Ill., where Shabona died, 27 July 1859.
N. Matson Personal Friend of Shabona (Chicago 1878)
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