The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians — John Shaqi
The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware IndiansWalker, Edwin Robert
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The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians
Walker, Edwin Robert
Delaware Indians
“To all person to whome these presents shall Come we Caponohkamhcon
Chekanthakainan Kelelaman Hokontoman all Indian Sachemas and the
onely sole and proper owners of the tract of Land hereafter described
and by these presents bargained and sould send Greetings Know ye
that we the said Indian Sachemas for and in consideration of fivety
fathom of Wampum thirty blew matchcotes thirty Red mattchcotes Eight
inglish cotes twenty white blankets twenty stroudwaters thirty shirts
fourty pare of Sotckings twenty one Kettles Tenn Gunns Twenty Hoes
Twenty Hatchets fivety knives thirty Tobacko Boxes thirty Tobacko
tongs thirty Lookeing glasses one Pound of Read Lead one rundlett
of Gun Powder fourty barrs of Lead one pound of Beads one hundred
tobacco pipes five hundred fishookes five hundred Needles one hundred
and fivety awles sixty flints twnety paire of Scissors and fiveteen
Gallons of Rum to us in hand paid by Mahlon Stacy Samuell Jennnigs
Thomas Gardiner George Deacon Christopher Wetherell John Wills
John Hugg Jun Isaac Sharp and John Reading all of them members of
the Councill of Proprietors for the time being within the westerne
division of the Province of New Jersey The Receipt of all which said
goods above mentioned We the said Sachemas doe hereby acknowledge
and therewith to be fully contented satisfied and paid have granted
bargained and sold aliened Enfoeffed Released and confirmed and by
these presents doe fully freely and absolutely Grant Bargaine and
sell Alyene enfoeffe Release and confirme unto the said Mahlon Stacy
Samuell Jennings Thomas Gardiner George Deacon Christopher Wetherill
John Wills John Hugg Isaac Sharpe and John Reading and to ther heires
and Assignes forever all that tract or parcell of Land Situate above
the falls of Delawar and lying and being within the Westerne division
of the province of New Jersey aforesaid being Limited and bounded in
manner following That is to say Begining at the River Dellawar at the
mouth of a westarne brooke called Laokolong as from thence along the
old Indian purchase line which was formerly made by Adlord Bowde to
the white oake tree standing by the side of an Indian Road Leading
from Arhelomonsing unto Neshaning or Coponockons wigwam and so from
the said corner along by A line of marked trees North and by East or
thereabouts along by the bounds of Hoyhams land untill it meet with
a branch of Rariton River called Neshaning and so down the same unto
the mouth of a brooke or Runn called Peescutchola and so along the
Northermost branch of the same along by the bounds of Nymhainmans
alias Squahikkons land unto an Indian Towne called Toquemenching and
from thence along the Indian Road Leading to Sheroppees plantation
called Asinkoweerkong North and by west or thereabouts by trees markt
along the road and from Sheroppees plantation along a line of marked
trees North west and by North to a runn on the back side of Ohoeming
and so downe the same untill it empties it selfe into a branch of
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