[Brotherton statement of refusal to leave New Jersey]

Calvin, Bartholomew, fl. 1780-1798 [Brotherton statement of refusal to leave New Jersey]

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GLC#
GLC00540.02
Type
Documents
Date
January 20, 1798
Author/Creator
Calvin, Bartholomew, fl. 1780-1798
Title
[Brotherton statement of refusal to leave New Jersey]
Place Written
Indian Mills, New Jersey
Pagination
1 p. : address Height: 32.5 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

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 Calvin, and eighteen other Indians. Eighteen years earlier, the same group had expressed alarm over white settlers moving onto their land (see GLC00540.01). Brotherton, New Jersey is now known as Indian Mills in Burlington County, in Southern N.J.

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