- [Land deed: Hannah Blake, Richard Halliwell, Indenture, Lenape Land to Thomas Cartwrite]
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- Indigenous Cultures
- Patron Requests
- Delaware / Lenape
- Language:
- Creator:
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- Blake, Hannah
- Curatorial Notes:
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- Exhibition label updated 2024-01-17. Consists of a land indenture through which Hannah Blake and Richard Halliwell, co-executor, sell 250 acres of land deeded to Blake's late husband, Edward Blake, to Thomas Cartwrite. The land described in the indenture is part of Lenapehoking, the territory of the Lenape people. In the 1680s, William Penn (1644-1718) had deeded land along Chester Creek in Chester, Pennsylvania, to Edward Blake, who was a Quaker leader and assemblyman. In this document, Cartwrite, who was a yeoman, agrees to purchase the land from Hannah Blake for the initial sum of fifty pounds with additional annuity. This indenture was drafted in a time period when conflicts between Lenape people and white colonists were emerging over differing conceptions of land use as colonists attempted to dispossess the Lenape of their lands via treaties and purchases. Item processed and described by Kelly Bolding in May 2022, incorporating some description provided by the dealer.
- Extent:
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- 1 folder
- Publisher:
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- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Created:
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- August 16, 1698
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/dcc534g0588
- Edm rights:
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Range label:
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- Logical
- View in finding aid:
- Depositor:
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- bwodnick
- Date created:
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- 1698 August 16-September 29
- Container:
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- Box p-000151, Folder 12