Hi, folks I'm trying to document a story I've recently discovered about Caleb Pusey of Upland, Delaware County, who in 1688 acted as an intermediary between European settlers and the Lenape in a tense moment. In brief, the story is that a rumor circulated that an unnamed Lenape chief was about to go to war. Pusey, who was then on the governor's council, decided to walk out (alone, unarmed) to the chief's camp on the Brandywine to see what was up. As it turned out, nothing was up. He found the chief surrounded by his several wives and many children, nursing a bad foot that was propped up on a pillow. The chief (and I'd like to know his name) was unhappy about some supposedly unpaid debts, but wasn't even thinking of going to war. Anyway, they talked awhile and Caleb went home -- having, perhaps, averted what later politicians have justified as a pre-emptive war. Ashmead's history of Delaware County refers to this story, but provides little detail: "If it be correct that Caleb Pusey made the noted visit, in 1688, to the Indian town on the Brandywine, where the iron-works of William Twaddell were subsequently erected, when the province was started from its propriety by the rumor that the aborigines were about to begin hostilities and massacre the whites, then, indeed, it is true that "Caleb Pusey, going out unarmed into the forest to meet a threatened attack of the savages, is a more heroic figure than blustering Miles Standish, girt with the sword he fought with in Flanders." Anyone know anything about this? Mark E. Dixon Wayne, PA