Shikellamy

…is named for an 18th-century Iroquois leader who governed the Susquehannock (Susquehanna) Indian village of Shamokin there; the site is now occupied by Sunbury, the county seat. The county was created in 1772 and named for Northumberland, Eng. Other communities include Shamokin, Mount Carmel, Milton, Kulpmont, and Watsontown.

…Indian; his father was Chief Shikellamy, who was purportedly a white Frenchman who had been captured as a child and raised by the Oneida. Chief Shikellamy became a friend of the secretary of the Pennsylvania colony, James Logan, whose name the chief’s son assumed.