• Land deed: Saskamani and Weneamkanon people

Collections:

• Indigenous Cultures
• Patron Requests
• Delaware / Lenape

Language:

• English

Curatorial Notes:

• Land deeds provide important indications of indigenous placenames as well as conceptions land use. This deed describes the transfer of land from the Saskamani and Weneamkanon peoples to Daniel Boxe, Matheus Gardiner, Thomas Stevinson, Joseph Kirkbride, John Budd, John Wills, Peter Fretwell and their heirs. The document was signed on August 18, 1713 and describes a parcel of land in New Jersey "bounded with the River Delaware on the South and South Westerly Sides." This deed was drafted during a period in which colonists attempted to dispossess the Lenape of their lands via treaties and purchases. This deed is a copy of an original which is now held at the New Jersey State Archives.

Extent:

• 1 folder

Publisher:

• Alexander, James, 1691-1756

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc1v53k763q

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

View in finding aid:

• https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0024_c0008

Depositor:

• bwodnick

Date created:

• 1713 August 18

Container:

• Box 1, Folder 8