This is from "Edgmont, the story of a township" by Jane Levis Carter. Anne Broomall Wiegle ***************** "Then of course, there was Indian Hannah. "Many creek valleys claim Indian Hannah and there seems to be evidence that she spent occasional summers north of STackhouse Mill Road in Edgmont. Stone foundations of a one-time cabin she is supposed to have lived in remain on a hillside there. Indian Hannah would wander in with the springtime, her wordly goods on a lean packhorse, followed by two small dogs, Elmun and Putmoe, and often a couple of pigs. She spent the summers collecting herbs and nnes, thens old her nostrums, brooms and beautifully woven baskets of oak and ash splints, often decorated by colors of her own brewing, at farm and village kitchen doors. When invited to partake of a meal she would usually accept, but not after nightfall. "me no owl," Hannah would declare. "Me no eat at night." After tryingout a broom made by a whit person, she once exclaimed disgustedly, "Pooh, pooh, just like hen scratchee!" At friendly hearthsides she told fortunes, shared ancient wisdoms. "Born around 1730 in lower Chester County, Indian Hannah knew over seventy years of wandering interspersed with the charity of local Quaker families. when younger she had once removed to New Jersey in the company of a grandmother, and two aunts. A possible common law INdian husband names Andrew Freeman had long disappeared. Now she lay dying in the Chester County Poorhouse. Dr. C. A. Weslager in "Red Men on the Brandywine," gives a picture of her last hourse: ' Her face was the color and texture of a dried leaf, and her once dark, piercing eyes had lost their fire... There was a lonliness in the two hands withering still and useless on the white muslin sheet... she belonged to no country, she was of the wind, the rains, and the sun. SHe was of the land; the Welsh hills of Pennsylvania as well as the brackinsh tidal mashes of Delaware and New Jersey; and the sea-side beaches worhn smooth by noisy waves... she was of the rivers and creeks... ' She was Chester County's last Lenni Lenape, last of the 'Original People.' " -----Original Message----- From: John Vail [SMTP:jvail@brandywine.net] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:52 PM To: PACHESTE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PACHESTE] Indian Hannah While attending Chester County Day, My interest in who Indian Hannah was, rekindled.I know she was Lenni Lenape Indian, I would like to know more. pat ______________________________