Early Life and Education
Nothing is known about the early life of Koquethagechton. Likely born in present-day Pennsylvania, he was first noted in the English colonial record near the end of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War}, as a messenger during treaty negotiations. By 1766, he was apparently a tavern keeper and trader in a Lenape town on the Beaver River, a tributary of the Ohio River in present-day western Pennsylvania. This occupation suggests he may have been well suited for interaction between Indians and whites, although he could not read or write, and probably did not speak English—at least not well.
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