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From the Valley of the Six Nations
Page 111, Resolutions of a Six Nations Council at the Onondaga Village, March 1, 1809
...Brothers, A tract of land that was granted to John Dochstader, who had also a family of our nation; but who sold a great piece of land to a Mr. Canby which exceeded what we intended to give but as we expected that the income or payment to be derived therefrom would fall to his family who were our people we did not oppose it; but that not having been the case - we desire that justice be done them - The farm in possession of his daughter of the Onondagas and Grand son of the Cayugas we confirm to them...
Page 137, Resolutions of a Six Nations Council at Onondaga Village November 9, 1806
...Among these difficulties we may also include that the tract of land disposed of by the late Mr. Dochstader, You know that the Chiefs, many of them who are now deceased, gave to him, as well as to others, who had served in the war with them an allotment of land, this was enlarged to him in regard to his children who belonged to our tribes; and by us are considered as being ligitimate, according to our customs, he had first been married to Cayuga woman by whom he had one daughter, and at her decease to a woman of the Onondagas, by whom he had another daughter, both children he brought up in the house with himself before and after the death of their mothers. The tract thus given him he extended without our knowledge, by a fraudulent survey, which when we first discovered, expecting it to be for the benefit of the Orphans in compassion to them we have made no remonstrance, thinking that as they had acquired the superfluous wants of Europeans, they might stand in need of it all.
Brothers
We are sorry to find that in regard to these, in no respect has our intention been fulfilled. The oldest daughter is dead, and the youngest remains pinched by poverty notwithstanding the generosity of the Five Nations on her account, while a Mr. Canby has obtained a Grant for twenty thousand acres, or thereabouts of our land, without paying her according.
I took from this that John Burnham was not Catherine's son but her nephew and step son. There is more in the Upper Canada Land Petition D91 composed of pages 91, 91a to 91z, 91aa to 91zz and 91aaa to 91fff, about 59 pages.
From Upper Canada Land Petition D91
Page 91 - March 22, 1834 - John Burnham of the Town of Buffalo, County of Erie, State of New York...
Page 91p - August 7, 1828 - Lyman Burnham and Catharine Burnham his wife and John Burnham all of the County of Haldimand District of Niagara and in the Province of Upper Canada of the one part and John Sanger of the second part...
Page 91t - August 28, 1826 - Between John Burnham, Lyman Burnham and Catharine Burnham his wife all of the County of Haldimand District of Niagara and in the Province of Upper Canada of the first part and Jay John Lymburner of the Second part...
Page 91ii - Feburary 3, 1827 - Between Lyman Burnham of the said Grand River in the County of Haldimand aforesaid Yeoman and Catherine his wife and John Burnham of the same place Yeoman of the one part and Barton Farr of the said Grand River in the County aforesaid Yeoman and Maria Farr his wife of the other part...
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Rainham Builders
Abt 1750 - 1801 (~ 51 years)