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or the property was purchased—see below. Photographer Orion O. Denny recorded Old Tom and
Madeline, ca. 1904, further noted in the UW Library archives as Madeline and Old John, also known as Indian John or Cheshishon, who had a house on Portage Bay in the 1900s, south of what is now the UW
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neighborhood. Although settlers were required to live on their claims for four years in order to receive title to them, many settlers whose claims were outside the growing village of
Seattle maintained a second residence in town.
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After the short war, Cheshiahud became a friend of David Denny and was sometimes known as Denny John. Cheshiahud married
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Madeline at their house on Portage Bay across from today's University of Washington campus. Old Tom was also known as Indian John or Cheshishon, so they are likely also Lake John Cheshiahud and
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for the murder, and Clark led an angry mob that hoped to hang a third young Indian accused (and later acquitted) of being involved in the murder; Sheriff
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