Tshusick (Ojibwa) was a con-artist.  She appeared in Washington, D.C. in the winter of 1826-1827.  She claimed to have worked in the Detroit home of Michigan Governer Lewis Cass and to be acquainted with Harriet Boyd, wife of the Indian Agent at Mackinac and sister of Mrs. John Quincy Adams.  She indicated that she was recently widowed and wished to become a Christian.  Attractive and possessing remarkable conversational skills in both English and French, she was received warmly in Washington, entertained in the highest social circles and received many gifts.  She was baptized Lucy Cornelia Barbour.  Her deception was discovered after her departure from Washington.  McKenney had written to Governor Cass about Tshusick.  Cass had replied that she was the wife of a scullion in the Boyd household and regularly went on adventures such as her trip to Washington.  King painted her portrait in Washington, D.C. in 1827.