Two documents relating to Indian land in Indian Mills, Burlington County, New Jersy [Decimalized]

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Collection Details

GLC#: GLC00540
Type: Header Record
Date: 1780, 1798
Title: Two documents relating to Indian land in Indian Mills, Burlington County, New Jersy [Decimalized]
Place Written: s.l.
Pagination

Time Period

Primary time period: American Revolution, 1763-1783

Sub-Era: The War for Independence

Subjects

American Indian History

Petition

Land Transaction

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Collection Item

Document signed

[Statement opposing white settlement on Indian land in Brotherton, New Jersey]

6 January 1780

Calvin, Bartholomew, fl. 1780-1798

A strong statement signed by eight Indians showing alarm over white settlers moving onto their land, forbidding it in the future, making illegitimate leases null and void, and voicing hopes to "live in Quietness among one another without giving any...

GLC00540.01

Collection Item

Document signed

[Brotherton statement of refusal to leave New Jersey]

January 20, 1798

Calvin, Bartholomew, fl. 1780-1798

Statement sent to Joseph Saltar that describes meeting in which the Brotherton unanimously agreed to express their refusal to leave "our fine place in Jersey" in the face of white encroachment. Signed in full by Jacob Skekit and Bartholomew...

GLC00540.02

Two documents relating to Indian land in Indian Mills, Burlington County, New Jersy [Decimalized]

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