Old Tobacco was the English name given to a Piankeshaw chief who lived near Post Vincennes during the American Revolution.
Old Tobacco was upset with the presentation of good and evil together, and he kicked the belts from Helm's hands.
[1] At some point, Old Tobacco sold land farther north on the Wabash River, where Wea villages were located.
When Lt-Governor Henry Hamilton led an expedition to Vincennes in 1778, he received several complaints from native villages about Old Tobacco, and burned down Old Tobacco's cession of lands as it did not comply with British law.
If Old Tobacco committed any acts of resistance to the British crown, Hamilton did not record it in his journal.