Chodakowski family

[4][5] In the Lithuanian Metrica, Mikołaj is mentioned as Vawkavysk's deputy mayor and local lord.

On July 19, 1565, Jan Chodakowski, son of Mikołaj Chodakowski, the clerk of the Vawkavysk County Land Court of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1565, sent two horsemen to the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army and an additional one for Sigismund II Augustus.

[5] In 1792 Jakub Chodakowski took part in the Battle of Mir in the war between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia.

[7] It was not until 1807, when Antoni Chodakowski (1784-1831) joined the 1st Light Cavalry Lancers Regiment of the Imperial Guard, that the family would eventually find itself in Vilnius[8] and later in northern Lithuania.

[12] The family remained in the area of present-day Lithuania until World War II when many fled West, to settle in the USA and Canada.