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The indigenous people who inhabited the land that became Philadelphia were the Lenape (also Lenni Lenape; their English moniker was “Delaware”); they were displaced by Quakers and other religious minorities that settled the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
May 1, 2016 · Pennsylvania Land Records are some of the most reliable colonial documents available to researchers, genealogists and historians today. Records summarized here are for official Pennsylvania colonial records in York County, beginning 1736 through the end of full land acquisition process (for some tracts as late as 1874.)
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Nov 26, 2021 · Although they called themselves the Lenape, translated as the Original People, the tribe became known as the Delaware since they lived on the banks of the river that the British named for the governor of Jamestown, Lord de la Warr. Today, the terms Delaware and Lenape are used interchangeably.
Sep 18, 2023 · It was in 1644 that the Swedes established the first settlement in Pennsylvania, on the western shore of the Delaware River. They called it Upland. Later, it was renamed Chester, after the city in England.
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1640 - Portions of lower Bucks County fell within the bounds of land purchased from the Lenape by the Swedes, and a handful of Swedish settlers began building log houses and other structures in the region.
When Lenape Indians in July 1694 crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to meet with Pennsylvania government officials, they represented a people whose homeland became the Greater Philadelphia region: southeastern Pennsylvania, central and southern New Jersey, and Delaware.
Lenape settlements are villages and other sites founded by Lenape people, a Native American tribe from the Northeastern Woodlands. Many of these sites are located in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
