De Grasse Stevens, A. The Lost Dauphin; Louis XVII

Or Onwarenhiiaki, The Indian Iroquois Chief. Orpington, G. Allen, 1887, 120p., 3 lithogr. portraits, orig. gilt pict. cl. Good copy, w. the sm. bookplate of Gerrit Komrij on upper pastedown.

Rare theory on the fate of the dauphin of France, Louis-Charles (seen by french Royalists as Louis XVII), many people claimed to be the dauphin after the French republic reverted to monarchy. A prominent pretender was Eleazer Williams, Iroquois chief and missionary to the Oneida Indians, son of a St. Regis Mohawk Indian and married to Mary Ann Kenewatsenri. The present work sets out the purported evidence underpinning his claim, though he died in poverty and obscurity in Hogansburg, New York. After DNA examination in 2000, it became clear that the true Louis-Charles actually died in a French prison in 1795. On the Williams-claim, cf. Sabin 30267.