Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn PDF
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Lenape Country EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES Serieseditors: DanielK.Richter,KathleenM.Brown, MaxCavitch,andDavidWaldstreicher Exploringneglectedaspectsofourcolonial,revolutionary,andearlynational historyandculture,EarlyAmericanStudiesreinterpretsfamiliarthemes andeventsinfreshways.Interdisciplinaryincharacter,andwithaspecial emphasisontheperiodfromabout1600to1850,theseriesispublishedin partnershipwiththeMcNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudies. Acompletelistofbooksintheseries isavailablefromthepublisher. LENAPE COUNTRY Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn JEAN R. SODERLUND university of pennsylvania press philadelphia Copyright(cid:2)2015UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Allrightsreserved. Exceptforbriefquotationsusedforpurposesofrevieworscholarlycitation, noneofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformbyanymeans withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. Publishedby UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Philadelphia,Pennsylvania19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper 2 468 10 9 7 5 3 1 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Soderlund,JeanR.,1947– Lenapecountry:DelawareValleysocietybeforeWilliamPenn/JeanR. Soderlund.—1sted. p.cm.—(EarlyAmericanstudies) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8122-4647-6(hardcover:alk.paper) 1.DelawareRiverValley(N.Y.-Del.andN.J.)—History—17thcentury.2.Delaware Indians—DelawareRiverValley(N.Y.-Del.andN.J.)—History—17thcentury. 3.DelawareRiverValley(N.Y.-Del.andN.J.)—Ethnicrelations—History—17th century.4.DelawareIndians—DelawareRiverValley(N.Y.-Del.andN.J.)— Governmentrelations—History—17thcentury.5.DelawareRiverValley(N.Y.-Del. andN.J.)—Socialconditions—17thcentury.6.IndiansofNorthAmerica—History— Colonialperiod,ca.1600-1775.I.Title.II.Series:EarlyAmericanstudies. F157.D4S682015 974.9—dc23 2014007128 For Rudy contents NoteontheText ix Introduction 1 Chapter1.AFreePeople,SubjecttoNoOne 12 Chapter2.ControllingtheLandthroughMassacreandWar,1626–38 35 Chapter3.ManagingaTenuousPeace,1638–54 55 Chapter4.AlliesagainsttheDutch,1654–64 86 Chapter5.AlliesagainsttheEnglish,1664–73 112 Chapter6.ProtectingSovereigntyamidWars,1673–80 132 Chapter7.NegotiatingPenn’sColony,1681–1715 149 Chapter8.StrategiesofSurvivalandRevenge 177 Conclusion 196 NoteonMethodology 205 Notes 207 Index 243 Acknowledgments 251 note on the text TheEnglish andSwedescontinuedtousetheJuliancalendar intheseven- teenthcentury,whiletheDutchhadadoptedthenewerGregoriancalendar. Thecalendarsweredifferentbytendays,andtheJulianNewYearbeganin March, so that, for example, an English document dated January 3, 1667, would be January 13, 1668, under the Gregorian calendar. While account- ingforthesedifferencesinanalyzingevidence,Ihavekepttheoriginaldates whencitingdocuments. WhenIquotefromEnglish-languagesourcesthatwerewrittenpriorto the nineteenth century, for better understanding I have modernized spell- ing and capitalization (but without altering the names of people and places);changeduseofthethorn(forexample,‘‘ye’’)totheintendedword ‘‘the’’; lowered superscript letters to the line; expanded abbreviations; and changed punctuation only when necessary for clarity. When I quote from translationsofDutchandSwedishdocuments,Ihavenotalteredthetext.
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