Eleazer Williams

Eleazer Williams (May 1788 – August 28, 1858) was a Canadian-American clergyman and missionary of Mohawk descent.

In 1817, Bishop John Henry Hobart appointed Williams to be a missionary to the Oneida people in upstate New York.

[3] In 1820 and 1821, Williams led delegations of Native Americans to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they secured a cession of land from the Menominee and Winnebago tribes in the Fox River Valley at Little Chute and along Duck Creek.

[4] The following year Williams made his home there and was married to a Menominee woman named Madeleine Jourdain.

[7] During the 1850s he openly became a pretender to the throne of France,[8] but he died in poverty at Hogansburg, New York.