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Original Document
The Examination of Indian Hannah, 1797.
...and employment.
"The Examination of Indian Hannah, alias Hannah Freeman Who saith that She was born in a Cabin on William Webb's Place in the township of Kennett about the year 1730 or 1731. The Family consisting of her Grandmother Jane Aunts Betty and Nanny. ...
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...lived at a time when many older patterns of Indian subsistence were rapidly disappearing from eastern North America. Maple sugaring is among the activities she would have engaged in as a younger woman, when Indian families still moved between winter and summer homes.
Hand-Colored Print of The Indian at Work: Maple-Sugar-Making in the Northern Woods after a sketch by W.M. Cary, ca. 1880-1890.
Original Document
General Forbes Describes his Route to the Forks to William Pitt, July, 1758.
...impenetrable almost to any thing humane save the Indians, (if they be allowed the Appellation) who have foot paths, or tracts through those deserts, by the help of which, we make our roads.
I am in hopes of finding a better way over the Alleganey Mountains, than that...
Historical Marker
PA 52 (E side) .2 mile N of junction US 1, Longwood
...in Chester County was born in the vale about 300 yards to the east on the land of the protector of her people, the Quaker assemblyman William Webb. Her mother was Indian Sarah and her grandmother Indian Jane of the Unami group (their totem–the tortoise) of the...
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No images exist of "Indian" Hannah, an elderly resident of Chester County in the early 1800s. The Chester County Historical Society, however, owns this woven wooden basket that is believed to have been made by her.
Indian Hanna Basket
Video File
...with both the colonists and the Lenape Indians was unique, encouraging peace and co-existence. He established a new capital city and called it Philadelphia, meaning the "City of Brotherly Love."
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Images of Lenape Indians and Treaty signing. Still Images of...
