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Title: History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Mathews, Alfred, (from old catalog) ed Peck, R. T., & co., pub. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, R. T. Peck & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as, the Six Nations—were almost con-stantly at war with their neighbors the Lenapeor Delawares. The Delawares were divided into nations inmuch the same manner as their northern ene-mies. Of these the most notable were thebranches of the Turtle or Unamis, the Turkeyor Unalachtgo, and the Wolf or Minsi (cor-rupted into Monsey). While the domain of theDelawares extended from the sea-coast betweenthe Chesapeake and Long Island Sound backbeyond the Susquehanna to the Alleglieniesand northward to the hunting-grounds of theIroquois, it seems not to have been regarded asthe common country of the tribes, but to havebeen set apart for them in more or less dis-tinctly-defined districts. The Undmis andUnalachtgo nations, subdivided into the tribes 1 by many this tradition of the emigration of the LcnniLenapi is believed to have a solid foundation in fact, andthe Alkgvn are regarded as being the Mound-Builders,whose vast works are numerous along the Mississippi, theOhio, and their tributaries. X
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THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. of Assnnp/iil;.*, Mains, <_hic1ie<jiii(<is, Sharka-iini.roii-*, Tii/flocx, Nantieokes and many others,occupied the lower country toward the coast,while the more warlike tribe of the Minsi orWolf, as Heckewelder informs us, had chosento live back of the other tribes, and formed akind of a bulwark for their protection, watch-ing the motions of the Mengwe, and being athand to offer aid in case of a rupture withthem. The Minsi continues the authority fromwhom we have quoted, extended their settle-ments from the Minisink, a place (on theDelaware, in Monroe County) named after them,where they had their council-seat and tire, quiteup to the Hudson on the east, and to the westand south far beyond the Susquehanna ; theirnorthern boundaries were supposed originallyto be the heads of the great rivers Susquehannaand Delaware, and their southern that ridge ofhills known in New Jersey by the name ofMuskaneeum, and in Pennsylvania by those ofLehigh, Coghuewago, ehistoryofwaynepi00math

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