Abenaki Hunting Guide Adirondacks, NY
Mitchell Sabattis 1823-1906
SABATTIS
(the surname a corruption of St. Baptist)
Capt. Peter Sabattis (Rev War, War 1812)(called "Old Peter")
b. c1750 St. Francis Canada
d. 1861 Long Lake, New York (age 111)
m. bef 1823 (may have been married more than once)
name unknown
b.
d. c1830
bur. on an island on Long Lake, NY
children: (3 sons 1 daughter)
1. Solomon Sabattis (called a rascal)
b.
d.
note: had a college education
2. Hannah Sabattis (desc. as shy)
b.
d.
m. never married, took care of her father
3. Mitchell Sabattis (St. Francis Abenaki)
b. 29 Sep 1823 Parishville, St. Lawrence Co., NY
d. 17 Apr 1906 Long Lake, New York
m.
Betsey (Bessie) Joinburgh (Dutch descent)
She ran "The Sabattis House" for roomers,
boarders and lodgers that fished and hunted
Long Lake.
children: (some say 8 some - say 5)
Known names:
Charles, Issac (Ike), Harry, sons
Mrs. Lorenzo Town, Mrs. Fred Gokey,
Mrs. Calvin Town, daughters
(Charles had 3 chn: Raymond, Joseph, Isaac)
I have yet to find the children's names of
Ike, Harry, and the girls.
4. Charles Sabattis (crippled)
b.
d. (died as a child)
Some of the above information is probable and some possible.
I found many contradictions as I sifted through articles
on line of Mitchell Sabattis. I have it listed only to give
an outline of a man who was a well known hunter and guide
in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. From "JSTOR" web
site is an article with this bit of info: "Some forgotten
Indian Place Names in the Adirondacks.....Peter Sabattis
and his wife removed to the Mohawk community at St. Regis."
This article can be purchased from their archives.
1900 United States Federal Census Index Mitchell Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1825 Indian Head Elizabeth Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1827 Indian Joseph Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1879 Indian Harry Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1870 Indian Annie Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1880 Indian Voilet e Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1899 Indian Isaac Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1851 White Head Charles Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1846 White Head Raymond Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1875 White Arline Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1857 White Narman Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1887 White Blanche Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1890 White Alice Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1895 White Rose Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1897 White Doral Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York - White Florence Sabattis Long Lake, Hamilton, New York b.c1882 White --- 1890 United States Federal Census Index (I found nothing) --- 1880 United States Federal Census Index Name: Emma Sabattis Home in 1880: Harrietstown, Franklin, New York Age: 23 Estimated birth year: abt 1857 Birthplace: Vermont Relation to head-of-household: Something other than a direct relationship (Other) Father's birthplace: Vermont Mother's birthplace: New York Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: House Keeping Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Female Name: Mitchel Sabattes Home in 1880: Long Lake, Hamilton, New York Age: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1824 Birthplace: New York Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Elezabeth A. Father's birthplace: Canada Mother's birthplace: Canada Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Guide Marital Status: Married Race: Indian (Native American) Gender: Male Name: Elezabeth A. Sabattes Home in 1880: Long Lake, Hamilton, New York Age: 53 Estimated birth year: abt 1827 Birthplace: New York Relation to head-of-household: Wife Spouse's name: Mitchel Father's birthplace: New York Mother's birthplace: New York Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Keeping House Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Female --- 1870 United States Federal Census Index (I found nothing for NY) Tomer Sabattis city, Penobscot, info abt 1823 race Male Sabattis Sabattis city, Penobscot, info abt 1862 race Male Stephen Sabattis city, Penobscot, info abt 1853 race Male Louisa Sabattis city, Penobscot, info abt 1847 race gender Mary Sabattis city, Penobscot, info abt 1852 race gender --- 1860 United States Federal Census Index Mitchel Sbattis city, Essex, NY 35 abt 1825 gender male ---- 1850 United States Federal Census Index Mitchel Sebates city, Essex, NY abt 1824 location --- 1840 United States Federal Census Index Peter Sabattus city, Hamilton, New York --- 1830 United States Federal Census Index (I found nothing for NY) --- 1820 United States Federal Census Index (I found nothing for NY, VT, ME) --- 1810 United States Federal Census Index (I found nothing for NY, VT, ME) --- 1800 United States Federal Census Index (I found nothing for NY, VT, ME) --- 1790 United States Federal Census Index (I found nothing for NY, VT, NH, ME) --- All The Above Census Information Was Taken From Ancestry.com
For Those Looking For More Sabattis/Sabattis
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Capt. Peter Sabattis Rev War St. Francis
Joseph Sabattist Rev War St. Francis
Baziel Sabattist Rev War St. Francis
Apom Sabattist Rev War St. Francis
John Sabattis Rev War St. Francis
Tomer Sabattis 1870 Census Penobscot
Stephen Sabattis 1870 Census Penobscot
Sabattis 1870 Census Penobscot
Louisa Sabattis 1870 Census Penobscot
Mary Sabattis 1870 Census Penobscot
Mitchel Sabattis NY Guide St. Francis
[Mitchel's lineage is above)
There was a Sabatis captured as a boy by Roger's
Rangers during their raid on St. Francis in 1759.
The actual name of this Sabtis was Antoine Gill,
son of Chief Gill. Antoine later returned to
St. Francis having been educated in a school.
Molly Ockett had 3 children by a Sabattis. He
and Molly lived in the Fryeburg, ME area. His
wife, jealous of Molly, came down from Canada
and had it out with Molly while Sabattis and
others looked on in amusement. Molly left the
group and moved on. This Sabattis went with
Benedict Arnold on his march to Quebec Dec 1775.
Molly was very nomadic with her doctoring and
lived in the Lake Memphremagog area with Sabattis
as well.
And there is Natanis who had a brother Sabatis.
Both wounded and captured by the British during
the assult on Quebec. The only Abenaki's not to
managed to have escaped.
Then is the mystery of Falling Star, Abenaki
maiden a/k/a Mrs. Annie (Denis) Fuller born
c1863 Can. and died 1903 in Luzerne, New York.
One account says she was the granddaughter of
Mitchell Sabattis, indian guide of the NY
Adirondacks and another account says she was
the grand neice of the famous indian guide.
In one of Mitchell Sabattis's obituary it
states that his children were:
son Charles
son Isaac
son Harry
daughter Mrs. Lorenzo Town
daughter Mrs. Fred Gokey
daughter Mrs. Calvin Town
all of Long Lake, New York
To be the grand neice of Mitchell Sabattis
she would have to have been born of a brother
of Peter Sabattis (Mitchell's father). This
aspect of the conundrum seems unlikely due the
the time periods.
Falling Star
Another Sabattis To Be Connected
CAROLINE SABATTIS
Caroline(Swatis)(Sabtias)Sabattis
b. 10 Jun 1822 St. Regis Mowhawk Res. NY (Franklin Co.)
d. 02 Feb 1923 Cape Vincent, Jefferson Co. NY age 101
bur. Rosiere, Jefferson Co. NY
fa.
mo.
m. c1857 Grindstone Island, Jefferson Co., NY or Canada
Lorenzo Harrison Carey
b. 06 Jun 1829 Grindstone Island, Jefferson Co., NY
d. 12 Jun 1922 Chaumont, Jefferson Co., NY
bur.
children: (4 sons 2 daughters)
1. David Harrison Carey
b. 08 Feb 1863 Brier Hill, St.Lawrence Co., NY
d. 19 Feb 1943 Jefferson Co., NY
bur. Clayton Cemetery, Jefferson Co., NY
mar. 1887 Lizzie(Elizabeth) Venider wife 2. Alvin A.
2. George Carey
b. c1865
d.
bur.
mar.
3. Mary Alice Carey
b. 19 Jul 1867 Ogdensburg, St.Lawrence Co., NY
d.
bur.
mar.
4. Lorenzo Harrison Carey
b. 07 Jun 1868 Brier Hill, St.Lawrence Co., NY
d. 10 Jul 1944 Cape Vincent, Jefferson Co., NY
bur.
mar. 08 Jan 1900 Mary Elizabeth Howes
5. Patrick Carey
b. c1870
d.
bur.
mar.
6. Nancy Ann Carey
b. 18 May 1875 Norwood, St.Lawrence Co., NY
d. 12 Aug 1965 Carthage, Jefferson Co., NY
bur.
mar. 1917 John Odette
UNSUNG NOTABLES OF THE NORTH COUNTRY
DAVID CAREY
by Julia Gosier, Lyme Town Historian
In 1900, a man named David Carey lived with his family on the old
Base Line Road in the Town of Lyme. This road ran between Swamp Road
and the turnpike (now Route 12E) just west of Three Mile Bay. The
community was known as Indian Swamp - a small gathering of Native
American or part Native American families who lived a life rather
isolated from the rest of the townspeople. They even had their own
school.
David and his neighbors were subsistence farmers who owned their own
farms, but making a living in this marshy land was difficult. Eventually,
he moved to better farmland on the Robinson road, north of Three Mile Bay.
David's mother was Caroline Sabatis Carey, born an Indian on the St.
Regis Reservation near Hogansburg. Her family included well-known Indian
guides who traveled the Adirondacks with vacationing city-folk in their
care. The village of Sabatis in Franklin County is named for Mitchell Sabatis,
one such guide.
We don't know if the Carey side of the family is also Native-American.
His father, Lorenzo Carey, was born on Grindstone Island in 1829 and
remained there until his marriage to Caroline.
Records differ on the date of David's birth. Some say 1859, 1866 or
1873. Since he had a nineteen year-old daughter in 1900, I tend to believe he
was born in 1859. He couldn't read or write and I doubt that exact age
was an issue in his family.
But from one of their parents, David Carey and his brothers, Lorenzo,
George and Patick, learned the art of Indian basketmaking. Apparently
David was exceptionally skilled, for after his death in 1943, his baskets
and model canoes became very valuable.
His neighbors and relatives, whom I have had the pleasure to meet,
remember him dragging birch logs home with his horse and buggy.
As children, they marveled at the way he hammered the logs to loosen the
bark, so it could be peeled off in great sheets. They remember him going
into the woods and thickets to gather the plants and the berries for dyeing
his baskets. They remember him as a rather scary old man who had lost his
tongue to cancer and couldn't talk. They remember the tomahawk he carried for
his work and the way he seemed to step out of the past.
When his rented house on the Merchant Road burned about 1940, he moved
into the little out-building which housed his shop.
His Ad in the Cape Vincent Eagle describes his modest business, but gives
no clue to the true artist he was.
Briefly Clearing Up A Misconception
There was no "Battis Tribe" in New Hampshire. Any
Abenaki found in Canterbury (Loudon) area in the
mid 1700s came from the St. Francis Abenaki in Canada,
and were a hunting party. Sabatis was with them. He
and another called Plasawa were murdered c1753. The white
man, to note these Abenaki, just decided to call the
hunting party camp "The Battis Tribe". My home town did
the same thing with some Mohicans (Mahegan) that had settled
in an area known as Guilder Hollow. Because the pioneer
was Stepehn Van Guilder, the settled indians were called
"The Van Guilder Tribe" and/or sometimes commonly called
"The Guilders." The word "tribe" is another white man's
word.
Sampson Battis was not an Abenaki indian. He was born in
Canterbury, NH about 1750. [The Abenaki would not carry
a 3 year old child on a hunting trip] Sampson was a black
slave owned by Archelous Moore who freed him in exhange
for his service in the war. Sampson had an impressive
military record in the Revoluntionary War. He worked for a
year to buy his wife, Lucy Carey [a West Indies black slave]
from her owner William Coffin. One child: Sampson Batise was
born c1789 Canterbury, NH.