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Mitsawokett is intended to assist the descendants of the original people of Delaware find their ancestral families, whether Lenni Lenape or Nanticoke. Their allied ancestral African, Iberian or other European lines will be mentioned but not further persued, being beyond the scope of this site's research.

A cautionary note: Much of the information contained on these pages is hearsay information obtained verbally or by e-mail or letter. Some is copied from official documents. Researchers should be cautious about accepting secondhand information from these pages without checking its accuracy against primary sources. Copying may introduce error; certainly oral history will, too.  The best source is a record created at the time a birth, marriage or death occurs.  But oral history, with all its faults, will continue to be vital to our attempt to construct the story of our Native American past. 


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Articles, Essays, Books Delaware History - Scharf's History of Delaware Ongoing Research & Discussions
     
  • Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Wikipedia
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  • The Nanticoke Indians of Indian River by W.H. Babcock 1899
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  • The Nanticoke Community of Delaware by Speck 1915
  • Tilghman Ridgeway: Ancestors & Descendants
  • The Durhams of Kent County Delaware by Harry Muncey
  • Delaware Indian History
  • Little Union/Fork Branch/DuPont Cem, Dover DE
  • Nentego — Lenape Tribes History
  • John Durham Burial Ground
  • Cornelius Ridgeway Tombstone story
  • The Indian origins of John Sanders (1811) of DE
  • Photographic Survey of Indian River Community
  • Delaware's Invisible Indians
  • Blood Quantum
  • Nantucket Historical Association - WB Gould article
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  • Jesse Dean d 1842 family puzzle
  • The Tribal Saga of New Jersey’s Nanticoke and Lenape Indians
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  • Blackfoot Indians Blackfoot Twn/Dagsboro DE
  • Perry Hughes & Old Corn Mortar
  • Delaware - Moving Out
  • Puckham - an identified Indian family
  • The Winnesoccum Disaster
  • To Canada
  • Ethnic Identity - A 1797 Rosetta Stone
  • The "Self-Identification" rationalization
  • To Indiana
  • Indiana & Delaware Indian ties
  • Change of Race on the Federal Census
  •   Durhams of Central Indiana
  • Counsellor research
  • Delaware-Born Listed As "Indian"
  •   Indian settlements in Indiana Terr. c. 1810
      Councilor Family by Harry Muncey
  • Chiefs resign from Nanticoke Indian Assoc.
  •   Grants and Treaties in Indiana, 1783-1840
      Origins of the Conselors
  • Nanticoke family burial plot identified
  • To Iowa
  •   Misc. Conselor Listings
  • Why the Nanticoke moved from MD to DE
  •   Discussions from the Mitsawokett List
      Elijah Concealer, 1839
  • Delaware State News Archive (FEE):
  • To Michigan
  •   will of Jerimiah Conselar, 1811
      "Kent dig reveals Indians' past"
      Vital Records - MI persons born in DE
      Thomas Conselor (1784-1853)
      "Indians clash over heritage"
      The DE-to-MI Migration 1855-1875
      Revisiting The Moor Question
      "Lenape roots left in doubt by review"
  • To New Jersey
  •   1850 census, Salem Co, New Jersey
      "Lenape meeting a 'homecoming'"
      Levin & Eunice (Ridgeway) Sockume
      The Many William Conselors
      "Nanticoke work to preserve heritage"
      New Jersey death certificates
      John Gonsaloes Accomack VA 1663-1695
      "Nanticoke chiefs leave group"
  • To Ohio
  •   James Conselor, 1850 Talbot County MD
      Burial grounds returned to Nanticokes
      Delaware Indians aka Lenape
      Edward Concellor m. Prudence Tammons
  • Courier-Post Archive (FEE): middle of page
  •   Delaware Tribe Towns Map
      The "councilor" Tamanend
      "Artifacts traced to early inhabitants"
      Munsee Indians
  • 1600s disputes--Delmarva natives & Europeans
  • Blood Quantum: A Relic of Racism
  •   From ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing
  • Who is an Indian?
  • Moors, Color & White: Thoughts of Many
  • To Oklahoma
  • Robert Munce/Munts
  • Essays — Color Line & the One-Drop Rule
  • Surnames Found in Oklahoma Cemetaries
  • Mary Gray Counsellor
  • "Relative Wealth" & racial perceptions
  • Ohio's Historic Indians
  • Perry Cork
  • The Crucible of American Indian Identity
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  • Theory - Origin of the term Blackfoot in Delaware
  • Interpreting Hickory Bluff by Clark & Haskell
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  • Who Counts as Indian in Post Apartheid Virginia
  • Loss of Identity in Virginia: Walter A. Plecker
  • Directories
  • Williams, Kent County, DE
  • IllegalBlood per cent: Marriage 1929
  • 1913 Farm Directory of Sussex County (29 mb file)
  • IBERIAN ROOTS: Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Francisco
  • Documentary Genocide - Virginia Indians
  • Caroline County, Maryland, Directory - 1878
  • Native Americans in Accomack County Court Order Abstracts 1600's - 1700's
  • The black-and-white world of Walter Plecker
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  • Change of Race on the Federal Census: so much for self-identification
  • Nanticoke Powwow 1999
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  • Hansor/Hansley/Hanzer/Handsor families of Sx & Kent Counties
  • Mulatto Classification of Indian Families
  • Family Lineages -- Descendants of:
  • Hewes/Hughes family
  • Peter Mosley - his escape from Patty Cannon's kidnapping
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  • Jackson family
  • Story of the heathen Clark woman
  • BECKETT families
  • Morgan family
  • Alice S. Felts Federated Club, Gouldtown, NJ -- history
  • Bede (Pete?) BECKETT
  • Munce/Muntz/Muncey family
  • Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement... (book)
  • CAMBRIDGE families
  • Sisco/Francisco family
  • Delmarva Native Americans & The Earliest Underground Railroad
  • Robert CARNEY
  • Wright family
  • Jonathan Pierce
  • CARNEY families
  • Carty/Carter - Coker - Concilor - Dean families
  • Case Study of Nanticoke Community - Porter
  • CARTER families
  • The Durhams of Kent County Delaware by Harry Muncey
  • Indian Camps in Salem and Cumberland County, NJ
  • CLARK families
  • Ancestral Durham Research
  • "Indian River Indians" by Dick Carter, intro to Change of Race
  • Julia CLARK and Robert Morris
  • Deborix Miller family research
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  • Levin CLARK
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  • Daniel and Sarah COKER
  • Obituary & Funeral Home program Excerpts
    Acts of the Delaware Legislature
  • COKER families
  • A - B
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  • Peregrine CORK
  • C
  • Separate schools for Moors, 1881
  • John A. COTT
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  • ID for Nanticoke descendants, 1903
  • Elisha CONSELAH/COUNCILOR
  • E - F - G
  • Care for unmarked burials, 1987
  • Elijah CONSELOR
  • H - I - J - K
  • Jesse Dean died w/o heirs, 1843
  • Thomas COUNCELLOR
  • L - M - N
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  • William COUNSELLER 
  • O - P - Q - R
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  • Mills COURSEY and MARY W. MORRIS
  • S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
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  • Cuffee CUFF
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    Bible Records
  • George W. DEAN
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  • Perkins-Adams-Morris-Jackson Bible Sussex, DE
  • James DEAN and Sarah HEWES (1)
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  • Emily C. Johnson Wright Bible
  • James DEAN (2)
  • Orphan Court Records
  • James & Harriet (Cork) Greenage Bible
  • William DRIGGERS
  • Elijah Concilor (d.1801) 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • Effie Reed Bible
  • DURHAM Families
  • Elijah Concilor - chart of descendants
  • Maymie Beckett Durham Bible
  • Daniel DURHAM
  • Jeremiah Concilor (d.1811) 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • Ida Carter Webster Bible
  • Elisha DURHAM
  • Jesse Dean (d.1868) 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • Carty-Wyatt Bible
  • Elijah CONSELOR and Hannah DURHAM
  • Robert Dean (d. 1874) 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • James H. & Hester (Cork) Muncey Bible
  • William DURHAM
  • Elizabeth Hansor - 1788 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • James Purnell Muncey Bible
  • Abraham FARMER
  • Nehemiah Hansor - 1787 'Moors & Nanticokes'
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  • Benjamin & Ann GOULD
  • Rachel Hansor - 1783 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • John & Lydia (Dean) Cott Bible
  • John & Benjamin GREENAGE (1)
  • Warren Wright 'Moors & Nanticokes'
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  • John and Benjamin GREENAGE (2)
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  • Mariah GRINNAGE
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    Births, Deaths, Marriages, Misc.
  • Thomas GRINNAGE
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  • Selected Birth records — DE
  • Aminidab HANDSOR (1)
  • Photographs
  • Selected Marriage records — DE
  • Aminadab HANDSOR (2)
  • A - C
  • Selected Death records — DE + other states
  • Cornelius HANDSOR or HANSLEY   
  • D
  • Greater Dover Area Death Records
  • Eleanor HANZER and Rev. Benjamin MOSLEY
  • E - L
  • Coroner's Inquests
  • Emmanuel HARMON
  • M
  • Children born out of Wedlock
  • Benjamin HUGHES
  • N - R
  • Marriages DE 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • Mrs. Isabel HEWES
  • S - Z
  • Bible records 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • William Wesley JACKSON
  • Photographic Survey of Indian River Community
  • New Jersey death certificates Cumberland Co.
  • Burton JOHNSON
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  • NJ Index to Marriage Records, 1848-1867
  • Samuel LOATMAN
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  • Selected BMD Michigan Wayne Co.
  • James McCARTY (1)
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  • Some PA Deaths
  • James McCARTY Sr. (2)
  • Probates, Estates & Wills
  • Perkins-Adams-Morris-Jackson Bible Sussex, DE
  • Isachar MILLER
  • Many at "Moors & Nanticokes"
  • Emily C. Johnson Wright Bible
  • John Hughes MILLER
  • Selected Probate Records
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  • James H. MORGAN Sr.
  • Probate Database Search Delaware Archives
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  • John MORGAN
  • Kent Co. Selected Probate Name Index
  • Bloomsbury Report by Heite Consulting
  • William H. MORGAN
  • Beckett, Greensbury 1865
  • House site excavation in Duck Creek Hundred,
  • Mary W. MORRIS & Mills COURSEY
  • Beckett, Charles 1838
  • DE, occupied 1750-1814 by some who were
  • Robert MORRIS and Julia CLARK
  • Beckett, Peregrine 1841
  • members of Native American families. The
  • Rev. Benjamin MOSLEY and Eleanor HANZER
  • Beckett, William 1757
  • earlier Heite reports are included.
  • John MOSLEY
  • Carney, Thomas 1858
  • Comments about Bloomsbury Report
  • Purnell MOSLEY
  • Coker, Moses 1867
  • The New Heite Consulting web site
  • Sina MOSLEY and Tilghman RIDGWAY or JACK
  • Conselor, Elijah
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  • Wingate MOSLEY (1)
  • Consellor, Elijah 1811
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  • Wingate MOSLEY (2)
  • Consellor, Elijah 1845
  • Cemeteries click here for list by area
  • Robert MUNCE (1)
  • Consellor, Jeremiah 1811
  • Robert MUNCE (2)
  • Conselah, Thomas 1739
  • Manhip Church & Fork Branch (Little Union) - Some History
  • Mary MURRAY and a Lenape Indian
  • Cork, Perry
  • Bethel AME Cemetery, Milton, DE
  • Othniel MURRAY
  • Dean, James 1787
  • Christ's Church, near Harbeson, DE
  • Warner PERKINS
  • Dean, Jesse 1842
  • Forest Grove SDA, Dinah's Corner near Dover, DE
  • William PERKINS
  • Dean, Jesse 1839
  • Fork Branch, near Dover, DE
  • PIERCE Family
  • Dean, Robert 1874
  • Friendship UM, near Millsboro, DE
  • Anthony & Marie Van Aca PIERCE
  • Durham, Joel   1864
  • Harmony UM, near Millsboro, DE
  • Richard PIERCE
  • Durham, Nehemiah 1915
  • Indian Mission UM Church, near Harbeson, DE
  • Samuel PRITCHETT
  • Hewes, Isabelle 1757
  • Israel UM Church, Lewes, DE
  • William RIDGWAY
  • McCarty, James 1823/26
  • Jackson-Perkins, near Middleford, DE
  • John SAMMONS (1)
  • Sammons, Isaac 1864
  • John Wesley United Church, near Frederica, DE
  • John SAMMONS (2)
  • Sisco, George 1814
  • Manship (Immanuel Union), near Cheswold, DE
  • Samuel SEENEY
  • Wright, Warren 1881
  • Millsboro Seventh-Day Adventist, DE
  • William SISCO
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  • Broad St. Cemetery, Bridgeton, N.J.
  • James SONGO
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  • Cuff Cemetery Salem Co., N.J.
  • Wingate STREET and Nancy Clark
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  • Evergreen Cemetery, Salem, Salem Co., N.J.
  • Solomon WILSON
  • Recipe - the kids fix dinner
  • Fernwood Cumberland Co., N.J.
  • Nicholas WRIGHT (1)
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  • Fordville UM, Cumberland Co., N.J.
  • Nicholas WRIGHT (2)
  • Gouldtown, Cumberland Co., N.J.
  • Robert WRIGHT
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  • Laurel Lawn Cumberland Co., N.J.
  • Elizabeth, John & William WYATT
  • Reference Works of Interest
  • Old Stone Cemetery, Cumberland Co., N.J.
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  • Weslager: DELAWARE'S FORGOTTEN FOLK REISSUE
  • Sunset Mem. Park, Camden Co., N.J.
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  • Weslager: Interviews in Delaware
  • Soop, Tyler & Mallett, Wayne, MI
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  • Weslager: Obituary & list of his works
  • Eden Cemetery, near Philadelphia, PA
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  • Gouldtown by T.S. Gould (scroll down) to order the book
  • Handsor Cemetery, Ontario, Canada
  • History
  • Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement... online book
  • John Durham Burial Ground questions
  • First Hand Accounts of Virginia, 1575-1705
  • Heite DELDOT Reports A list of Heite papers
  • Find-A-Grave Search
  • Delaware History - Scharf's History of Delaware
  • Tombstones of Kent County (scroll down)
  • Nanticoke Early Burial Plot - Lewes, Sussex Co., DE
  • Delaware Indian History
  • Tombstones of Sussex County (scroll down)
  • Whatcoat Cemetery, Dover - a few stones
  • Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement... (book)
  • Probate and land records Heritage Books --
  • Berry's Chapel Burying Ground
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  • "Delaware's Forgotten Folk" table of contents
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  • The Native Tribes of Canada (read book online)
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    Census Internet Resources  
  • Caroline County, MD 1830 Federal Census Images
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  • Caroline County, MD 1820 Federal Census Images
  • Enter the town, find the county
  • Related Web Sites
  • 1870 Sx Co. DE - Laurel
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  • John Carter's  Genealogy Home Page
  • 1870 Sx Co, DE - Little Creek Hd
  • The Powhatan Renape Nation
  • Lynn Jackson's Moors & Nanticokes
  • 1800-1900 various, 'Moors & Nanticokes
  • Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of N.J.   State Recognition
  • Joseph Romeo's The Moors of Delaware
  • 1880 Census @ Familysearch.org
  • Nanticoke Indian Association, Millsboro
  • The Family History of Donald W. Fisher
  • Sammons - Census, Sussex County prior to 1850
  • Nanticoke Indian Museum Millsboro
  • Gwndolyn Wright-Morris's web site
  • Links to DE census records
  • Delaware Genealogical Society
  • Lisa Perkin's Research: Perkins & Durham
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  • Delaware GenWeb Site
  • Wicomico Woman's World
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  • Kent County GenWeb Site
  • Ila & Dave Miller's Family web site
  • Church Records
  • Sussex County GenWeb Site
  • Gail Kirsten Peterson-Masengale's Family Page
  • Asbury United Methodist Church, Smyrna, DE
  • New Castle County GenWeb Site
  • Seaney, Seeney and Seney Homepage
  • Forest Grove SDA Church cemetery records, Pearson's Corner Rd, Dover, DE
  • Social Security Death Index
  • Laura Durham's Durhams of Central Indiana
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  • Remnant Indians of the Southeast
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  • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
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    Civil War Pension Records
  • Native Americans (Cyndi's List)
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    CIVIL WAR PENSION FILE PAGE IMAGES
  • PowWow Calendar
  • Revolutionary War
  • Miller CARNEY (or Kearney or Karney)
  • Delaware genealogy resources
  • Revolutionary Patriots of Delaware
  • William CARNEY
  • Delaware: "the least hospitable place in the Union for freedmen prior to (1861)"
  • Thomas Clark
  • Daniel COKER
  • The New Heite Consulting web site
  • John Andrew COKER
  • Alienation of the Delaware from the British 1759
  • Thomas COUNCILOR
  • Lenape Legends, Symbols - Walam Olum 1885
  • Searching for Your Indian Roots
  • William DEAN
  • The Lenape Stone - image of mammoth 1885
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  • Daniel DRIGGETT
  • Algonquian Indian Tales 1903
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  • Levi DRIGGETT
  • Delaware Indians online books
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  • David DURHAM
  • Delaware Indian History
  • Social Security Applications
  • Elisha DURHAM
  • Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement... (book)
  • A List of Individual Applications
  • Charles GOLDSBOROUGH
  • William Trent's journal 1763 - smallpox page 11
  • Obtain one a deceased person had submitted
  • Richard B. GOLDSBOROUGH
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  • SSDI
  • Robert GOLDSBOROUGH Sr.
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  • Robert GOLDSBOROUGH Jr.
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  • William GOLDSBOROUGH
  • Land Records  
  • Lorenzo (or Alonzo) GOULD
  • Index to Land Records of Sussex Co., DE, 1769-1782 & 1782-1789
  • Tax Lists
  • William H. GOULD
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  • KENT, DE 1727 - 1784 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • Mitchell HARMON
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  • KENT, DE 1782 - 1800 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • John HUGHES
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  • SUSSEX, DE 1785 - 1800 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • Alfred N. JOHNSON
  • "Moors" of Delaware
  • ACCOMACK, VA 1663 - 1695 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • David MILLER
  • True Story of the Delaware Moors 1895
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  • Deborix Miller
  • The Moors of Delaware ~1974
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  • John H. MORGAN
  • Delaware’s Forgotten Minority-The Moors
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  • James MUNSON
  • Kent County’s Moors ,1892
  • Treaties, Laws, etc. outside Delaware
  • Thomas Montson/Munson
  • Train Whistle Recalls Cheswold Of Past
  • Wyandot Treaty 1817
  • Isaiah 'Zeddick' MUNTZ
  • Moor Says His People Started ‘Big Thursday’
  • Speech To The Delawares, 1812
  • William MURRAY
  • Cheswold: Home Town Of Senator Boggs
  • List of Treaties
  • Allen MURRAY/REED
  • Memories Have Replaced Industry in Cheswold
  • Links - Indian Affairs, Laws, Treaties
  • Charles Morgan PIERCE
  • The Moors of Delaware 1960
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  • Elias Seeley PIERCE
  • The So-Called Moors of Delaware 1895
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  • Ephraim PIERCE
  • He Bought the Plane Before Lessons 1967
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  • Jeremiah/Jediah/Jedediah PIERCE
  • Another View - The Moors of Delaware
  • Tri-Racial Isolates
  • Mark PIERCE
  • The Melungeons
  • Isolate Communities
  • Alfred RIDGEWAY
  • Muncey & Heite write about Moors & Lydia Clark
  • Racial Islands
  • Cornelius RIDGEWAY
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  • Racial Islands
  • George David SALMONS
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  • Essays on the Color Line and the One-Drop Rule
  • James SAMMONS
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  • Gouldtown, Cumberland County, N.J.
  • James Wesley SEENEY
  • Maps
  • The Melungeons
  • James SONGO
  • Lower Shore Boundaries 1662 to present (includes lower Sussex County)
  • Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement... (book)
  • Franklin WRIGHT
  • Beers Atlas Delaware 1868 Hundreds Maps
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