----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [PAWAYNE-L] Migration addition > My notes mention that the D&H Railroad (Delaware & Hudson) went up the > Starrucca Creek valley. The Starrucca viaduct conducted from the Susquehanna > River watershed to the Delaware River watershed. I got a lot of information > as well as pictures from the Lanesboro home page, Susquehanna Co. > > *********** Every college library I have been in has a book, of which I have forgotten the name, full of terrific D&H railroad photos carperry [email protected]

----- > Shirley, > > There are whole books on the canal as well as chapters in the standard > histories, as well as files and photos at the historical society. It's my > understanding that canal boats could be either owned or leased. If you're > interested in a book, I'll check and see if there are any for sale, but as > far as I know there are no list of workers, only some individual names. You > might also try a search to see if there are any sites on the subject. > > Ann > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shirley L. Berg" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:13 PM > Subject: Re: [PAWAYNE-L] Migration addition > > > > Do you have anything at all on the D&H Canal? I have some info that my > > great great grandfather may have had a boat and used it there. > > Thanks for any help. > > Shirley > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ann O'Hara" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:22 PM > > Subject: Re: [PAWAYNE-L] Migration addition > > > > **************************************** check out the several canal museums in NY state that should be on line. My gg had a boat, "The Farmer's Daughter" on the canal and my master's subject, as well as my dissertation, if I ever get it done, are on the D&H. Also, the D&H, mostly railroad, has a site and an organization carperry [email protected]

--part1_cf.eb4668f.29265ed7_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_cf.eb4668f.29265ed7_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-xe02.mx.aol.com (rly-xe02.mail.aol.com [172.20.105.194]) by air-xe04.mail.aol.com (v82.22) with ESMTP id MAILINXE42-1115234247; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:42:47 -0500 Received: from lists7.rootsweb.com (lists7.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.56]) by rly-xe02.mx.aol.com (v82.22) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXE29-1115234228; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:42:28 -0500 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists7.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id fAG4fxS23964; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:41:59 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:41:59 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Thu Nov 15 21:41:57 2001 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:38:12 -0800 From: Constance <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: CRUMP-L <[email protected]>, DIAMOND <[email protected]>, [email protected], LAFLAMME-L <[email protected]>, LINNEMANN-L <[email protected]>, MERCIER <[email protected]>, SIMNING-L <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], MINTON-L <[email protected]>, [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [LAFLAMME] DAR Searches Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/193 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Hi Everyone, Some volunteers from the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution ( DAR) have established a wonderful new program for users of Rootsweb. These volunteers will do lookups in their database and records if you think one of your ancestors served in some capacity during the American Revolution. These volunteers have more databases that are available to them than the ones commonly used by the search engines. The process is fairly simple : Go to the DAR message board: There are two ways to do that: www.rootsweb.com message boards topics organizations and societies DAR Or if you want the easy way :-) http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar Address your message as follows: subject : DAR Lookup > surname> location > dates In the body of the message put the information regarding the person. Be sure to fill out the surnames box at the bottom since the new search engine will be keying on that item. Leave the email response box checked and you will be notified when the DAR volunteers respond . Give them a week or so to get to your request. We really appreciate their efforts. This info can be key for: a: joining these prestigious organizations ( DAR & SAR) b: sending a request for the copies of the files that were submitted and the information they have available. Many thanks to: Glenda Thompson DAR VIS Volunteer Vice Chrm. Patriot Lookup for organizing this effort and all the many volunteers that are donating their time and effort to us instead of pursuing their own ancestors, Best Regards John A Hansen DAR board admin. BTW: Please forward this message to other lists and boards that each of you are involved in. A word of thanks to each volunteer that does this work and especially the one that responds to your post would probably be highly appreciated. My Best To All, Constance ==== LAFLAMME Mailing List ==== GOD BLESS AMERICA!! United We Stand! ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 --part1_cf.eb4668f.29265ed7_boundary--

Hello all Added to the web site is the 1850 census data for Susquehanna County Harmony Township. In the family lineage data are major updates for Sterling Township Wayne County with branches into Pike County. Thank you VERY much Leeann and Sheila - and a number of other contributors. I hope that the new data will provoke a bit of interest on the mailing lists. The more data I transcribe the more I find that everyone seems to be cousins. Enjoy Fred PS Please find the typos. :-) -- _-_|\ Frederick W. Myers [email protected] / \ 187 Mondurup St Mt Barker WA 6324 Australia \*.-._/ Perhaps your most distant relative :-) v http://www.dsdata.com.au/genealogy/nepa/

The German Catholic Church in Honesdale was St. Mary Magdalen, but their records are at St. John the Evangelist. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [PAWAYNE-L] SOMMER FAMILY OF HAWLEY > Hi Pat, > > I noticed your posting and that you state that Mr. Sommer was born in

There were no death certificates before 1906 in PA. Deaths were required to be reported at the county level 1893-1905, but many were not. The Wayne County Historical Society has those records on microfilm as well as gravestone inscriptions and/or obituary index which might help you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:11 PM Subject: [PAWAYNE-L] SOMMER FAMILY OF HAWLEY > I AM TRYING TO FIND INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING RELATIVES WHO I BELIEVE LIVED IN HAWLEY. > > JOHN SOMMER: BORN 1829 IN GERMANY > DIED 1904 (EXACT DATE UNKNOWN) IN > HAWLEY, PA. > > AUGUSTA SOMMER (NEE YASP)- HIS WIFE: > BORN 1834 (PLACE OF BIRTH IS > UNKNOWN--- POSSIBLY IN PENNSYL- > VANIA OR GERMANY) > DIED 1887 IN HAWLEY (EXACT DATE > UNKNOWN) > > WOULD LIKE TO SECURE COPIES OF THEIR DEATH > CERTIFICATES IF POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN > INFORMATION REGARDING THEIR PARENTS NAMES > AND WHERE THEY WERE BORN. ANY OTHER INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THEIR SIBLINGS, ETC. > WOULD BE APPRECIATED. > > THANK YOU. > > PAT > > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to visit the Wayne County Historical Society > 810 Main Street P.O. box 446 Honesdale, PA 18431 (570)253-3240 > [email protected] > > ============================== > Ancestry.com--Your #1 Source for Family History Online--FREE for 14 Days > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1238 > > >

St. Mary Magdeline Church was the church for German speaking Catholics in Honesdale. That church combined with St. John the Evangalist. The phone # is 570--253-4561 . I believe they have someone whom you can hire to do look ups. The Luthern Church....also St. John's is 570--253-1444. Luthern Church in Hawley is St. Paul's: 570 --226-2411. Catholic Church is Queen of Peace 226-3183. The Wayne Co. Historical Society charges a very reasonable fee to do research such as local census, deeds & wills Phone # is 570-253-3240 > From: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:16:13 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PAWAYNE-L] SOMMER FAMILY OF HAWLEY > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:16:24 -0700 > > Hi Pat, > > I noticed your posting and that you state that Mr. Sommer was born in > Germany. If he was a German Lutheran, you may be able to get information > from St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 701 Church Street, Honesdale, > PA. I know that they have records dating back to the mid 1800s. They might > have records of any children of that marriage that were baptized. Looking at > the witnesses might shed light on children's grandparents. Since they lived > in Hawley, they may have belonged to the Lutheran Church there. I am not > sure when that church was started and what records they may have available. > If the clergyman at either church performed the funeral service, they would > have recorded it along with the date of death and the date of burial. If > they were Catholic, you could contact the Catholic churches in either Hawley > or Honesdale. I'm not sure which of the Catholic churches were German so I > won't provide names. With the date of death, you could then contact either > Harrisburg, PA Vital statistics or the Wayne County Courthouse depending on > the year of death. > > Hope this helps. > > Carol Potter Meadows > > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Genealogical Research Society of Northeastern Pa., Inc. > 210 Grant Street Olyphant, PA. 18447 (570) 383-7661 > [email protected] http://www.cfrobbins.com/grsnp > > ============================== > Ancestry.com--Your #1 Source for Family History Online--FREE for 14 Days > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1238 > >

Hi Pat, I noticed your posting and that you state that Mr. Sommer was born in Germany. If he was a German Lutheran, you may be able to get information from St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 701 Church Street, Honesdale, PA. I know that they have records dating back to the mid 1800s. They might have records of any children of that marriage that were baptized. Looking at the witnesses might shed light on children's grandparents. Since they lived in Hawley, they may have belonged to the Lutheran Church there. I am not sure when that church was started and what records they may have available. If the clergyman at either church performed the funeral service, they would have recorded it along with the date of death and the date of burial. If they were Catholic, you could contact the Catholic churches in either Hawley or Honesdale. I'm not sure which of the Catholic churches were German so I won't provide names. With the date of death, you could then contact either Harrisburg, PA Vital statistics or the Wayne County Courthouse depending on the year of death. Hope this helps. Carol Potter Meadows

I AM TRYING TO FIND INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING RELATIVES WHO I BELIEVE LIVED IN HAWLEY. JOHN SOMMER: BORN 1829 IN GERMANY DIED 1904 (EXACT DATE UNKNOWN) IN HAWLEY, PA. AUGUSTA SOMMER (NEE YASP)- HIS WIFE: BORN 1834 (PLACE OF BIRTH IS UNKNOWN--- POSSIBLY IN PENNSYL- VANIA OR GERMANY) DIED 1887 IN HAWLEY (EXACT DATE UNKNOWN) WOULD LIKE TO SECURE COPIES OF THEIR DEATH CERTIFICATES IF POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING THEIR PARENTS NAMES AND WHERE THEY WERE BORN. ANY OTHER INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THEIR SIBLINGS, ETC. WOULD BE APPRECIATED. THANK YOU. PAT

Pat, The historical society in Honesdale may have your answers. C. Furtaw

In a message dated 10/22/01 9:29:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Subj: Re: Lenape Then and Now > Date: 10/22/01 9:29:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] (Ned Heite) > To: [email protected] > > > Hey, wish they had been there; your folks from up in Wayne and Monroe > were called the River Indians in one talk, and clearly were Lenape. > Please do forward it to them and give them my address. > > > At 8:54 AM -0400 10/22/01, [email protected] wrote: > >Excellent piece for your talk, Ned, understandable to the novice, > > enough detail and reference for the always present > >documentarian--and pointed as to the problems. > > > >Thanks for letting all read it. With your concurrence, I'll post it > >to the Wayne Co., PA list, they encompass Wayne, Pike, Monroe, many > >of whose early families came out of NJ, the name of Dean appears, as > >does Sisco, Cumbo, etc. > > > >You may have inadvertantly solved my Mary Sanders/Saunders > >problem--she b. c 1770-1755. Lyman Draper states in his papers > >the group ensconced on the Delaware, some 222 persons, were Shawnee > >and Cherokee, pushed backwards--and there in the early 1770s. Not > >impossible, certainly--and Draper never said he was an > >oracle---his work was without peer, or an axe to grind that anyone > >has ever known of. So. > > > Sanders and Dean are two of the names we find in both Cheswold and > farther to the north. Also Songo and Bass. > -- > *************************** Ned Heite ([email protected]) ********* > "What you accept, you teach----the choices you make dictate the life you --those you impact----lead" http://www.rit.edu/~rbbetc/index.htm This is a subscribed/requested mailing by the participants, not Spam mail under AOL TOS. If you wish to be added/removed, please notify [email protected], you'll be deleted/added immediately. I'm not responsible for the forwarding of email I send to others who aren't subscribers/requesters. This letter isn't Spam as long as a Remove Link is included.

I did this too. You can read about it at the bottom of the page. I hate to read about driving as I have not been able to drive in over a year. Hopefully this too shall pass!! My dad always said he was born in Cochecton. Marjorie Smith Ward <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/tvvbugg/Dodderl.html">DODDERL family history</A> http://www.geocities.com/tvvbugg/Dodderl.html

In a message dated 10/22/01 9:29:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > > > >> Subj: Re: Lenape Then and Now >> Date: 10/22/01 9:29:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time >> From: [email protected] (Ned Heite) >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Hey, wish they had been there; your folks from up in Wayne and Monroe >> were called the River Indians in one talk, and clearly were Lenape. >> Please do forward it to them and give them my address. >> >> At 8:54 AM -0400 10/22/01, [email protected] wrote: >> >Excellent piece for your talk, Ned, understandable to the novice, >> > enough detail and reference for the always present >> >documentarian--and pointed as to the problems. >> > >> >Thanks for letting all read it. With your concurrence, I'll post it >> >to the Wayne Co., PA list, they encompass Wayne, Pike, Monroe, many >> >of whose early families came out of NJ, the name of Dean appears, as >> >does Sisco, Cumbo, etc. >> > >> >You may have inadvertantly solved my Mary Sanders/Saunders >> >problem--she b. c 1770-1755. Lyman Draper states in his papers >> >the group ensconced on the Delaware, some 222 persons, were Shawnee >> >and Cherokee, pushed backwards--and there in the early 1770s. Not >> >impossible, certainly--and Draper never said he was an >> >oracle---his work was without peer, or an axe to grind that anyone >> >has ever known of. So. >> >> >> Sanders and Dean are two of the names we find in both Cheswold and >> farther to the north. Also Songo and Bass. >> -- >> *************************** Ned Heite ([email protected]) ********* >> > > > > The Invisible Indians of New Jesey and Delaware > > A talk presented at the "Lenape Then and Now" symposium > Vineland, New Jersey, October 20, 2001 > > Edward F. Heite > > During nearly twenty years, we have been privileged to study historic > Native American remnant groups in Delaware, usually as part of the > Delaware Department of Transportation cultural resource management > program. Most of our work has been concentrated in Duck Creek, Little > Creek, Kenton, and West Dover hundreds, the north half of Kent County. > > The people of this area, now called Lenape, belong to the same stock > as the people of southern Sussex County now called Nanticoke, and the > people in Cumberland County, New Jersey, who are now called > Nanticoke-Lenape. Historical documents indicate that Northern Kent > County was called Mitsawokett during the settlement period, and > the people here were part of the Cohansey who lived on the east side > of Delaware Bay. Historical documents indicate the area now > known as central Delaware was the south limit of Lenape territorial > claims. > > Whatever their descendanats call themselves today, the tribes who > met the first European settlers have experienced many changes during > four centuries. In any Native American community on Delmarva or in > New Jersey today, no individual can claim descent exclusively from > one seventeenth-century tribe or another. This is why the sponsors of > this meeting call themselves Nanticoke-Lenape. > > After the middle of the eighteenth century, Delaware did not > recognize the existence of any Native American people within its > boundaries. The legislature even made an official statement to the > effect that there were no Indians in the colony. Throughout the > coastal plain, at the beginning of our federal period, there were a > few scattered remnant communities of Native American people. And of > that scattered population, only a small proportion were recognized by > their neighbors as Indian tribes. In the minds of the general > population, all the Indians were out west. > > So began the period of invisibility, when the Native population > disappeared from the historical record. > > For purposes of the census and enforcement of discriminatory laws, > race in America has been defined, throughout the nineteenth century > and much of the twentieth, by the subjective opinion of white record > keepers. These officials frequently were ignorant of the nuanced > meanings of race terminology and often were uninterested in ethnic > origins. To some record-keepers, every nonwhite was "negro." > Sometimes Indian people would be identified as "mulatto," an > ambiguous term applied to all light-skinned nonwhites and probably to > a few Mediterranean whites as well. > > Citizens of Indian origin were enumerated in the federal census > together with African Americans under the classification of "free > persons of color." Some Indians were classified as white, especially > if they were financially well off. The 1800 census of Delaware did > not identify any person as an Indian, but did identify several Indian > families as white. > > In some years the tax assessors identified Indian-descended families > as "mulattoes" and reserved the term "negro" for persons of African > descent, regardless of mixture. In other years, every nonwhite was > classed as "negro." Race classification depended entirely upon the > tax collector's perception. > > Official silence concerning ethnicity during the seventeenth and > eighteenth centuries has complicated the task of making historical > racial or cultural identifications. After the Civil War, when free > public education was gradually extended to nonwhites, a group of > citizens protested against being included in the "negro" school > system. Instead, they eventually persuaded the state to create > "moor" or "Indian" schools at both Indian River and Cheswold. This > was the beginning of the struggle for modern Indian recognition in > Delaware. > > It is important to remember that the historical experience of East > Coast Indian populations is very different from the history of their > western cousins. In the west, where the Army was tasked with > controlling Native American populations, there was no question as to > who was Indian. Mere presence in a population conferred ethnic and > tribal identity, even though many of the people in the tribes were of > mixed origin. In the west, in Indian country, you knew who was an > Indian because the Army and later the Bureau of Indian Affairs kept a > list. > > Here in the east, there were no official lists of Indians, because > the Indians did not officially exist. In the west, historians and > genealogists can determine who was an Indian simply by presence on a > government inventory. > > In the east, the identification process is exactly the reverse. We > must first identify the community, and then identify individuals > within that community who can be documented as Indians. It's easy > to walk into a group of Delaware or New Jersey Indians and say that > these people look like Indians, but it's another matter entirely to > prove that they are a coherent group of related Native people who > have always been a separate community. If we can show that over the > years, certain individuals were identified as Indians by impartial > outside observers, we can logically assert that their relatives > constituted an Indian community, or band. By then defining the band > of which these obviously Indian people were members, we can with some > confidence demonstrate that the communty was an Indian band. > > Throughout three centuries Native American families knew who they > were. They stuck together. They intermarried. The three bands of > people in Indian River, Cheswold, and Cumberland County, composed a > single population within which people routinely circulated. They also > maintained regular contact with other Native American communities. In > the 1820s, for example, a young man from Cheswold went out to Peru, > Indiana, to live a while with the Lenape emigrants out there. I'm > told that a Lenape community still exists in that part of Indiana. > > In order to document the Native American nature of the community, we > have employed genealogy, with the able assistance of a corps of > volunteers organized by Betty and Ray Terry, proprietors of the > Mitsawokett web site. Thanks to the efforts of Betty and Ray, we now > have a database that can be used to demonstrate the continuity of > Native American identity within these related families. > > Now let's examine some of the documentation through time. > > When the Indian John Puckham was baptised in 1682, he became a > "mulatto" and married Jone Johnson, also a "mulatto". > > A George Puckham was among the "Indians" named in the prosecutions of > the Winnesoccum "conspiracy" of 1742, which was the beginning of the > end of organized Indian tribes on Delmarva. Soon after Winnesoccum, > the traditional people moved away, while others blended into the > general population. > > Members of the Puckham family moved to Kent County, and in 1815, a > later George Puckham was named in an estate settlement of the Durham > family. > > So our eastern searches for documentation must begin with > genealogical reserch, family by family, until we have a picture of > community ethnicity. The necessary records are, surprisingly, > abundant. > > The name Francisco or Sisco appears in many Native American > communities. One Abraham Sisco was among the Nanticoke who addressed > the Pennsylvania governor in 1760, while the Nanticoke were living in > the Susquehannah valley . Descendants of documented Francisco or > Sisco people are living today in all three communities. > > In 1748, as the traditional Native tribal people were leaving > Delmarva, some stayed behind. One of these, apparently, was William > Cambridge, who patented part of the Askibinakansen Indian town in > Worcester County, Maryland. It appears Cambridge was a Native > American, and perhaps was getting a Maryland title to the place where > he already lived; only archaeology can tell us more. > > The Coursey family are some of the few who can demonstrate direct > descent from the seventeenth-century Nanticokes. They descend from > Tom Coursey, historic chief of the Nanticoke Indians. > > Daniel and Nathan Norwood enlisted in a Delaware military company in > 1758. Nathan was described in the muster roll as "brown" and Daniel > was described as "brown Indian." Their comrade, James Westcote, was > also described as "brown" but his occupation was given as "Indian". > This may have been the last official document to recognize the > existence of Indians in Delaware. > > Gradually, an awareness of Indian origins began to creep back into > the public records and the public consciousness. > > In 1827, Nathaniel Clark was identified in seamen's protective papers > as a "colored man of Indian race". He was born in 1799 in Lewes and > Rehoboth Hundred and died in Broadkill Hundred about 1875. With his > wife Eunice Ridgeway, he had 15 children, some of whom left > descendants in the community today. > > In 1853, the passport application of James Dean from Kent County > described him as being "of Indian descent". The Dean family were some > of the core members of the Cheswold community. > > William Handsor, progenitor of that family in Kent and Sussex > counties, is supposed to have been Indian or mixed-race, but the only > reference to him as being a "mulatto" dates from a period after his > death in 1767. His descendant, James Handsor, was described in an > 1831 passport application as having an "Indian complexion". > > During the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, increasingly > strict laws restricted the activities of all nonwhites, including > mulattoes. A few well-off Indians challenged the restrictions in > court, but failed. Others moved to Canada or to free states, > including New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Indiana. Some appear > to have joined other Indian nations on what was then the western > border of the United States. > > Some families who moved away reclaimed their Indian identity in > their new homes. While their cousins in Delaware and New Jersey were > still being called "mulattoes," the emigrants could identify > themselves as Indians. > > In the 1871 census of the province of Ontario, a farmer named > Benjamin Sammons, was identified as Indian, born in the United > States, probably Delaware. > > William LaCount, a bootmaker, died in Brooklyn in 1875. He was > described as an Indian in the death record. His parents were Joseph > and Mary LaCount, who had lived in Philadelphia, but were originally > from Kent County, Delaware. > > Sometimes we see in the documents a record of indecision about ethnic > identity during the period of Indian invisibility. In 1880, in > Michigan, John W. Norwood, listed as white, married Maggie Simons or > Sammons, who was listed as French and Indian, though she was born in > Ontario of Delaware-born parents. > > When Franklin Perkins, a descendant of the Dean family of Delaware, > was born in Romulus, Michigan, in 1872, his race was listed as > "Indian" on his birth certificate. The Perkins family were part of a > large colony of Delaware people who had moved to Michigan and nearby > parts of Canada. > > William Cambridge, his wife Mary Dean, and their daughter Josephine, > were identified in the 1880 census as "Indian" living in Camden, New > Jersey. Mary's father was Jesse Dean of Cheswold, Delaware. > > In that same 1880 census, there were no Indians listed in Cumberland > County, New Jersey. In Delaware, the same census listed only three > Indians, all in a single Wilmington household. > > The next year, the Delaware legislature allowed the community on > Indian River to establish a separate school system, but the > legislators carefully avoided identifying the people as anything but > "a certain class of colored people." There still were no official > local Indians in Delaware, but they had their own schools. > > In 1892, a reporter for the Philadelphia Times visited Cheswold and > interviewed John Sanders, or Saunders, who was then eighty years of > age, born in 1811. His father was from Sussex. Sanders declared that > his people were Indians, descendants of the Lenape or Delaware > nation. During his youth, he had lived a time among the Lenape on the > Wabash River near Peru, Indiana. His wife was a Dean At least a few > of the Native American people were ready to reclaim their identity, > publicly and proudly, on their home turf. > > Noke Norwood, brother of Lydia Clark, was described in 1895 by Judge > Fisher as being a "copper-colored" person with features that were > decidedly Indian. His sister, supposedly a full-blooded Indian, > testified that the Indian River people were descended from mixed > white and African people who had married into the local Native > population. Judge Fisher's article on the history of the Moors, and > his account of the Levin Sockum case, was published in a newspaper in > 1895 and later published as a pamphlet by the Public Archives > Commission. > > When Fred Morris and Reba Miller were married in Sussex County, > Delaware, in 1900. the marriage return emphatically declared that > both were Indians. The people had returned to the official record > with their true identity. Two years later, the Delaware legislature > passed a law allowing persons of Native descent, in all three > counties, to obtain official state credentials as Indians. > > The age of the legally invisible Indian was over, but the struggle > for acceptance had just begun. > -- > *************************** Ned Heite ([email protected]) ********* > > > > "What you accept, you teach----the choices you make dictate the life you --those you impact----lead" http://www.rit.edu/~rbbetc/index.htm This is a subscribed/requested mailing by the participants, not Spam mail under AOL TOS. If you wish to be added/removed, please notify [email protected], you'll be deleted/added immediately. I'm not responsible for the forwarding of email I send to others who aren't subscribers/requesters. This letter isn't Spam as long as a Remove Link is included.

Thanks for that nice story. I have ancestors in that same cemetery, and paid it a visit in August. I live in NH now . What a lovely time of year to visit. Glad you found those important graves. Jean in NH ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 3:48 PM Subject: [PAWAYNE-L] Colwell > Again, I want to thank everyone who gave me information on the Damascus PA > cemeteries where I might find my Cochecton NY Colwells buried. > Although the main reason for my trip was to attend a family wedding, I > couldn't travel such a great distance ( I live in Florida) without doing some > genealogy research. > I managed to carve out some time to drive to Damascus. It was a beautiful > autumn day, sunny and breezy. Autumn leaves were blowing everywhere. > My father and I had no trouble finding the Overlook Cemetery. Dad took one > part of the cemetery, I took the other. "Look for the flags" he said, "they > put them on the veterans graves". We looked and looked.. He has emphesema > so he couldn't do much. I put him in the car and I continued to look. I > needed to take him home. I was ready to give up when I stood by the car and > looked one more time. Maybe this sounds familiar to some of you? We had > parked directly in front of the Colwell grave marker and neither one of us > had looked at it! > I collected the information, did some rubbings and the visit was a success! > I now have just a little more information to continue my search. > Thank you all. > Judy Huska > > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > If you can't visit the area you are researching, check with your local > Family History Center. They may be able to get the records you require > on microfilm. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >

Again, I want to thank everyone who gave me information on the Damascus PA cemeteries where I might find my Cochecton NY Colwells buried. Although the main reason for my trip was to attend a family wedding, I couldn't travel such a great distance ( I live in Florida) without doing some genealogy research. I managed to carve out some time to drive to Damascus. It was a beautiful autumn day, sunny and breezy. Autumn leaves were blowing everywhere. My father and I had no trouble finding the Overlook Cemetery. Dad took one part of the cemetery, I took the other. "Look for the flags" he said, "they put them on the veterans graves". We looked and looked.. He has emphesema so he couldn't do much. I put him in the car and I continued to look. I needed to take him home. I was ready to give up when I stood by the car and looked one more time. Maybe this sounds familiar to some of you? We had parked directly in front of the Colwell grave marker and neither one of us had looked at it! I collected the information, did some rubbings and the visit was a success! I now have just a little more information to continue my search. Thank you all. Judy Huska

Hi All-- Can anyone in the area tell me what airport would be the most convenient to fly into on a Delta flight? Is it too late in the year to do a little cemetery searching? We're thinking we might come out about the end of this month if we can work out the details. It will probably be a quick trip so any hints we can get about the best way to spend two or maybe three days would be appreciated. Also an inexpensive place to stay would help. I could go online but someone who knows the area would problably be a better guide for my purposes. I've got gggrandparents buried in St. Patrick's in Olyphant and in South Canaan that I know of. My sister and I thought we'd spend some time in the Wayne and Lackawanna County Courthouses and a little time looking for graves. Any other suggestions? Please respond directly to me so we don't take up list space and time. Thanks! Joy [email protected]

Thank you Iris! For the address and the 1910 miracode lookups. GA [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 10/13/2001 4:49:06 PM Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > for a marriage about 1908 in Honesdale > > Wayne County Courthouse > 925 Court St > Honesdale, PA 18431-1996 > Phone: (570)253-5970 > > > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to visit the Wayne County Historical Society > 810 Main Street P.O. box 446 Honesdale, PA 18431 (570)253-3240 > [email protected] > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

Hi GA I am a native of Honesdale. My grandfather was Albert Dennhardt. His first marriage produced four sons, Hugo, Otto, Oscar and Max, not necessarily in that order. I am not at home right now, so do not have my FTM program. I am reasonably sure they were from Apolda. Albert married a second time to a Maria Wulff and my mother was the issue of this marriage. Albert came to America through the port of Baltimore. He lived in Brooklyn, N.Y. where my mom was born August 28, 1899. Maria was killed in an auto accident, and I am unable to find if she was struck by a vehicle or was a passenger. I believe this happened in 1902. Max, a son took his father Albert to Honesdale to live. Albert died six weeks later of stomach cancer. So my mom was orphaned, but legally adopted by a couple named Langhans. Please keep in touch, and when I get back home in about 2 weeks or less, I will be able to tell you a bit more, although my information is sparse. The Dennhardts are in the 1900 census in Brooklyn. Don Wagner , writing from South Carolina, born in Honesdale, and now living in Ohio. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

Looking for William and Betsey Sharpe Harris' place of residence (second child b. in 1824, Kingston, Luzerne PA according to obit.) Descendants of William Harris 1 William Harris b: August 13, 1798 in PA d: March 5, 1869 in Lakeville, Wayne, PA .. +Betsey Sharpe b: July 24, 1794 in Salisbury Twp., Litchfield, Connecticut d: April 28, 1864 in Lakeville, Wayne, PA m: Abt. 1820 Father: Truman Sharp Mother: Zipporah Jones ... 2 Harriet Harris b: July 18, 1821 in Luzerne?, PA d: August 28, 1865 in South Sterling, Wayne/Pike Cty, PA ........ +Peter F. Osborne b: June 6, 1814 in Salem Township, PA d: December 24, 1876 in Salem Township, PA m: December 17, 1837 in Palmyra, Wayne, PA Father: John Osborne Mother: Rebecca McCape ... 2 Charles F. Harris b: July 23, 1824 in Kingston, Luzerne, PA d: January 6, 1900 in Lakeville, Wayne, PA ........ +Caroline Elizabeth Kelly b: October 22, 1827 in Tresslarville, PA d: October 31, 1911 in Scranton State Hospital, Scranton, PA m: May 5, 1845 Father: Benjamin Kellee Mother: Mary Hoel ... 2 Zipporah Ann Harris b: April 3, 1825 in PA d: April 11, 1894 in Lakeville, Wayne, PA ........ +Henry Bartleson b: March 12, 1817 in Purdytown, Wayne, PA d: October 22, 1892 in Lakeville, Wayne, PA Father: Peter Bartleson Mother: Hannah Hartford ... 2 William Harris, Jr. b: September 13, 1829 in Hemlock Hollow, PA? d: March 27, 1910 in Burnwood, Herrick Township, Susquehanna, PA ........ +Martha A. (Harris) b: August 13, 1833 d: October 25, 1854 ... *2nd Wife of William Harris, Jr.: ........ +Sarah Matilda Bartleson b: July 29, 1837 in South Sterling, Wayne, PA d: August 22, 1874 in Starucca, Wayne, PA m: October 22, 1855 in Clinton, PA Father: Gabriel Bartleson Mother: Susan Kethcart ... *3rd Wife of William Harris, Jr.: ........ +Martha J. Pierce b: in NJ m: 1888 ... 2 Lucy Ann Harris b: July 2, 1832 in Hemlock Hollow, PA? d: March 12, 1874 in Lakeville, Wayne, PA ........ +William Ansley b: 1830 d: 1905 m: 1856 in Hollisterville Father: Brinson Ansley Mother: Elizabeth LaBar If any have connections, please advise. Holly Harris Jagger Binghamton NY

Me again. The Ellis Island site has numerous Dennhardts, including two trips back to Europe for Max R. Dennhardt (51 in 1921), who was naturalized 10 April 1911 in Wayne County. Ann