Footer

MAIN MENU

Research assets on web sites 'Mitsawokett'
Lynn Jackson's 'Moors & Nanticokes'
Joseph Romeo's 'The Moors of Delaware'


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. 

8 Jan 2010

This web site's primary focus is: Family History & Genealogy.

For Native American issues other than Family History & Genealogy please post to:

"The Many Voices of Mitsawokett"

We are especially interested in contributions of data from family Bibles and obituaries EMAIL US

 

IF THE TYPE FONT BELOW IS TOO SMALL FOR YOU,
HOLD DOWN YOUR CONTROL KEY AND TAP THE + KEY



     
     
     
Articles, Essays, Books Delaware History - Scharf's History of Delaware Ongoing Research & Discussions
  • "The Last of the Lenapes"
  •  
  • Nathaniel Morris (abt 1727 - abt 1774) by Michele Pierce
  • Delaware Indian History
  • Tilghman Ridgeway: Ancestors & Descendants
  • Digging Into The Past - archaeology in New Jersey
  • Little Union/Fork Branch/DuPont Cem, Dover DE
  • The Black Creek Site, Vernon Valley, New Jersey
  • John Durham Burial Ground
  • Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Wikipedia
  • Delaware's Invisible Indians
  • The Indian origins of John Sanders (1811) of DE
  • The Nanticoke Indians of Indian River, W.H. Babcock 1899
  •  
  • Blood Quantum
  • The Nanticoke Community of Delaware by Speck 1915
  •  
  • Jesse Dean d 1842 family puzzle
  • The Durhams of Kent County Delaware by Harry Muncey
  • Delaware - Moving Out
  • Blackfoot Indians Blackfoot Twn/Dagsboro DE
  • Nentego — Lenape Tribes History
  • To Canada
  • Puckham - an identified Indian family
  • Cornelius Ridgeway Tombstone story
  • To Indiana
  • Ethnic Identity - A 1797 Rosetta Stone
  • Photographic Survey of Indian River Community
  •   Durhams of Central Indiana
  • Indiana & Delaware Indian ties
  • Nantucket Historical Association - WB Gould article
  •   Indian settlements in Indiana Terr. c. 1810
  • Counsellor research
  • The Tribal Saga of N.J. Nanticoke and Lenape Indians
  •   Grants and Treaties in Indiana, 1783-1840
      Councilor Family by Harry Muncey
  • Perry Hughes & Old Corn Mortar
  • To Iowa
  •   Origins of the Conselors
  • The Winnesoccum Disaster
  •   Discussions from the Mitsawokett List
      Misc. Conselor Listings
  • The "Self-Identification" rationalization
  • To Michigan
  •   Elijah Concealer, 1839
  • Change of Race on the Federal Census
  •   Vital Records - MI persons born in DE
      will of Jerimiah Conselar, 1811
  • Delaware-Born Listed As "Indian"
  •   The DE-to-MI Migration 1855-1875
      Thomas Conselor (1784-1853)
  • Chiefs resign from Nanticoke Indian Assoc.
  • To New Jersey
  •   Revisiting The Moor Question
  • Nanticoke family burial plot identified
  •   Levin & Eunice (Ridgeway) Sockume
      1850 census, Salem Co, New Jersey
  • Why the Nanticoke moved from MD to DE
  •   New Jersey death certificates
      The Many William Conselors
  • Delaware State News Archive (FEE):
  • To Ohio
  •   John Gonsaloes Accomack VA 1663-1695
      "Kent dig reveals Indians' past"
      Delaware Indians aka Lenape
      James Conselor, 1850 Talbot County MD
      "Indians clash over heritage"
      Delaware Tribe Towns Map
      Edward Concellor m. Prudence Tammons
      "Lenape roots left in doubt by review"
      Munsee Indians
      The "councilor" Tamanend
      "Lenape meeting a 'homecoming'"
      From ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing
  • 1600s disputes--Delmarva natives & Europeans
  •   "Nanticoke work to preserve heritage"
  • To Oklahoma
  • The Winnesoccum Disaster 1742, Pocomoke Swamp, MD
  •    
  • Articles of Peace and Amity July 1742 Chicacoan Indians, MD
  •   "Nanticoke chiefs leave group"
    Surnames Found in Oklahoma Cemetaries
  • Who is an Indian?
  •   Burial grounds returned to Nanticokes
  • Ohio's Historic Indians
  • Robert Munce/Munts
  • Courier-Post Archive (FEE): middle of page
  •  
  • Mary Gray Counsellor
  •   "Artifacts traced to early inhabitants"
     
  • Perry Cork
  • Blood Quantum: A Relic of Racism
  •  
  • Theory - Origin of the term Blackfoot in Delaware
  • Moors, Color & White: Thoughts of Many
  •  
  • Who Counts as Indian in Post Apartheid Virginia
  • Essays — Color Line & the One-Drop Rule
  •  
  • Williams, Kent County, DE
  • "Relative Wealth" & racial perceptions
  •  
  • IBERIAN ROOTS: Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Francisco
  • The Crucible of American Indian Identity
  • Directories
  • Native Americans: Accomack Court Order Abs 1600's - 1700's
  • Interpreting Hickory Bluff by Clark & Haskell
  • 1913 Farm Directory of Sussex County (29 mb file)
  • Change of Race on the Federal Census: so much for self-ID
  • Loss of Identity in Virginia: Walter A. Plecker
  • Caroline County, Maryland, Directory - 1878
  • Hansor/Hansley/Hanzer/Handsor families of Sx & Kent Cos
  • IllegalBlood per cent: Marriage 1929
  •  
  • Hewes/Hughes family
  • Documentary Genocide - Virginia Indians
  •  
  • Jackson family
  • The black-and-white world of Walter Plecker
  •  
  • Morgan family
  • Nanticoke Powwow 1999
  •  
  • Munce/Muntz/Muncey family
  • Mulatto Classification of Indian Families
  •  
  • Sisco/Francisco family
  • Peter Mosley - escape from Patty Cannon's gang
  • Family Lineages -- Descendants of:
  • Wright family
  • Story of the heathen Clark woman
  •  
  • Carty/Carter - Coker - Concilor - Dean families
  • Alice S. Felts Federated Club, Gouldtown, NJ -- history
  • BECKETT families
  • The Durhams of Kent County Delaware by Harry Muncey
  • Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement... (book)
  • Bede (Pete?) BECKETT
  • Ancestral Durham Research
  • Delmarva Native Americans & Earliest Underground RR
  • CAMBRIDGE families
  • Deborix Miller family research
  • Jonathan Pierce
  • Robert CARNEY
  • Nathaniel Morris (abt 1727 - abt 1774) by Michele Pierce
  • Case Study of Nanticoke Community - Porter
  • CARNEY families
  •  
  • Indian Camps in Salem and Cumberland County, NJ
  • CARTER families
  •  
  • "Indian River Indians" by Dick Carter
  • CLARK families
  •  
     
  • Julia CLARK and Robert Morris
  •  
     
  • Levin CLARK
  •  
     
  • Daniel and Sarah COKER; Moses COKER of MD
  • Obituary & Funeral Home program Excerpts
    Acts of the Delaware Legislature
  • COKER families
  • A - B
  •  
  • Peregrine CORK
  • C
  • Separate schools for Moors, 1881
  • John A. COTT
  • D
  • 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
  •  
  • William COUNSELLER 
  • O - P - Q - R
  •  
  • Mills COURSEY and MARY W. MORRIS
  • S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
  •  
  • Cuffee CUFF
  •  
    Bible Records
  • George W. DEAN
  •  
  • Perkins-Adams-Morris-Jackson Bible Sussex, DE
  • James DEAN and Sarah HEWES (1)
  •  
  • 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-Carter-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'
  • John & Lydia (Dean) Cott Bible
  • Benjamin & Ann GOULD
  • Rachel Hansor - 1783 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  •  
  • John & Benjamin GREENAGE (1)
  • Warren Wright 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  •  
  • John and Benjamin GREENAGE (2)
  •  
     
  • Mariah GRINNAGE
  •  
    Births, Deaths, Marriages, Misc.
  • Thomas GRINNAGE
  •  
  • Selected Birth records — DE
  • Aminidab HANDSOR (1)
  •  
  • Selected Marriage records — DE
  • Aminadab HANDSOR (2)
  • Photographs
  • Selected Death records — DE + other states
  • Cornelius HANDSOR or HANSLEY   
  • A - C
  • Greater Dover Area Death Records
  • Eleanor HANZER and Rev. Benjamin MOSLEY
  • D
  • Coroner's Inquests
  • Emmanuel HARMON
  • E - L
  • Children born out of Wedlock
  • Benjamin HUGHES
  • M
  • Marriages DE 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • Mrs. Isabel HEWES
  • N - R
  • Bible records 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • William Wesley JACKSON
  • S - Z
  • New Jersey death certificates Cumberland Co.
  • Burton JOHNSON
  • Photographic Survey of Indian River Community
  • NJ Index to Marriage Records, 1848-1867
  • Samuel LOATMAN
  •  
  • Selected BMD Michigan Wayne Co.
  • James McCARTY (1)
  •  
  • Some PA Deaths
  • James McCARTY Sr. (2)
  •  
  • Perkins-Adams-Morris-Jackson Bible Sussex, DE
  • Isachar MILLER
  • Probates, Estates & Wills
  • Emily C. Johnson Wright Bible
  • John Hughes MILLER
  • Many at "Moors & Nanticokes"
  •  
  • James H. MORGAN Sr.
  • Selected Probate Records
  •  
  • John MORGAN
  • Probate Database Search Delaware Archives
  •  
  • William H. MORGAN
  • Kent Co. Selected Probate Name Index
  • Bloomsbury Report by Heite Consulting
  • Mary W. MORRIS & Mills COURSEY
  • Beckett, Greensbury 1865
  • House site excavation in Duck Creek Hundred,
  • Robert MORRIS and Julia CLARK
  • Beckett, Charles 1838
  • DE, occupied 1750-1814 by some who were
  • Rev. Benjamin MOSLEY and Eleanor HANZER
  • Beckett, Peregrine 1841
  • members of Native American families. The
  • John MOSLEY
  • Beckett, William 1757
  • earlier Heite reports are included.
  • Purnell MOSLEY
  • Carney, Thomas 1858
  • Comments about Bloomsbury Report
  • Sina MOSLEY and Tilghman RIDGWAY or JACK
  • Coker, Moses 1867
  • The New Heite Consulting web site
  • Wingate MOSLEY (1)
  • Conselor, Elijah
  •  
  • Wingate MOSLEY (2)
  • Consellor, Elijah 1811
  •  
  • Robert MUNCE (1)
  • Consellor, Elijah 1845
  • Cemeteries click here for list by area
  • Robert MUNCE (2)
  • Consellor, Jeremiah 1811
  • Mary MURRAY and a Lenape Indian
  • Conselah, Thomas 1739
  • Manhip Church & Fork Branch (Little Union) - Some History
  • Othniel MURRAY
  • Cork, Perry
  • Bethel AME Cemetery, Milton, DE
  • Warner PERKINS
  • Dean, James 1787
  • Christ's Church, near Harbeson, DE
  • William PERKINS
  • Dean, Jesse 1842
  • Forest Grove SDA, Dinah's Corner near Dover, DE
  • PIERCE Family
  • Dean, Jesse 1839
  • Fork Branch, near Dover, DE
  • Anthony & Marie Van Aca PIERCE
  • Dean, Robert 1874
  • Friendship UM, near Millsboro, DE
  • Richard PIERCE
  • Durham, Joel   1864
  • Harmony UM, near Millsboro, DE
  • Samuel PRITCHETT
  • Durham, Nehemiah 1915
  • Indian Mission UM Church, near Harbeson, DE
  • William RIDGWAY
  • Hewes, Isabelle 1757
  • Israel UM Church, Lewes, DE
  • John SAMMONS (1)
  • McCarty, James 1823/26
  • Jackson-Perkins, near Middleford, DE
  • John SAMMONS (2)
  • Sammons, Isaac 1864
  • John Wesley United Church, near Frederica, DE
  • Samuel SEENEY
  • Sisco, George 1814
  • Manship (Immanuel Union), near Cheswold, DE
  • William SISCO
  • Wright, Warren 1881
  • Millsboro Seventh-Day Adventist, DE
  • James SONGO
  •  
  • Broad St. Cemetery, Bridgeton, N.J.
  • Wingate STREET and Nancy Clark
  •  
  • Cuff Cemetery Salem Co., N.J.
  • Solomon WILSON
  •  
  • Evergreen Cemetery, Salem, Salem Co., N.J.
  • Nicholas WRIGHT (1)
  • Recipe - the kids fix dinner
  • Fernwood Cumberland Co., N.J.
  • Nicholas WRIGHT (2)
  •  
  • Fordville UM, Cumberland Co., N.J.
  • Robert WRIGHT
  • Gouldtown, Cumberland Co., N.J.
  • Elizabeth, John & William WYATT
  •  
  • Laurel Lawn Cumberland Co., N.J.
  •   Reference Works of Interest
  • Old Stone Cemetery, Cumberland Co., N.J.
  •  
  • Weslager: DELAWARE'S FORGOTTEN FOLK REISSUE
  • Sunset Mem. Park, Camden Co., N.J.
  •  
  • Weslager: Interviews in Delaware
  • Soop, Tyler & Mallett, Wayne, MI
  •  
  • Weslager: Obituary & list of his works
  • Eden Cemetery, near Philadelphia, PA
  •  
  • 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
  •  
  • "Delaware's Forgotten Folk" table of contents
  •  
  • The Native Tribes of Canada (read book online)
  •      
    Census Internet Resources  
  • Caroline County, MD 1830 Federal Census Images
  •    
  • Caroline County, MD 1820 Federal Census Images
  • Enter the town, find the county
  • Related Web Sites
  • 1870 Sx Co. DE - Laurel
  •  
  • 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
  •  
  • Delaware GenWeb Site
  • Wicomico Woman's World BAD LINK
  •  
  • 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 BAD LINK
  • Forest Grove SDA Church cemetery records, Pearson's Corner Rd, Dover, DE
  • Social Security Death Index
  • Laura Durham's Durhams of Central Indiana
  •  
  • Remnant Indians of the Southeast
  •  
  • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
  •  
    Civil War Pension Records
  • Native Americans (Cyndi's List)
  •  
    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
  •  
  • Daniel DRIGGETT
  • Algonquian Indian Tales 1903
  •  
  • Levi DRIGGETT
  • Delaware Indians online books
  •  
  • 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
  •  
  • SSDI
  • Robert GOLDSBOROUGH Sr.
  •  
  • Robert GOLDSBOROUGH Jr.
  •    
  • William GOLDSBOROUGH
  • Land Records  
  • Lorenzo (or Alonzo) GOULD
  • Index to Land Records of Sussex Co., DE, 1769-1789
  • Tax Lists
  • William H. GOULD
  •  
  • KENT, DE 1727 - 1784 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • Mitchell HARMON
  •  
  • KENT, DE 1782 - 1800 'Moors & Nanticokes'
  • John HUGHES
  •  
  • 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
  •  
  • Debrix Miller
  • The Moors of Delaware ~1974
  •  
  • John H. MORGAN
  • Delaware’s Forgotten Minority-The Moors
  •  
  • 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
  •  
  • Elias Seeley PIERCE
  • The So-Called Moors of Delaware 1895
  •  
  • Ephraim PIERCE
  • He Bought the Plane Before Lessons 1967
  •  
  • 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
  •  
  • Racial Islands
  • George David SALMONS
  •  
  • Essays on the Color Line and the One-Drop Rule
  • James SAMMONS
  •  
  • Gouldtown, Cumberland County, N.J.
  • James Wesley SEENEY
  • Maps
  • The Melungeons
  • James SONGO
  • Lower Shore Boundaries 1662 to present - lower Sx Co.
  • Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement... (book)
  • Franklin WRIGHT
  • Beers Atlas Delaware 1868 Hundreds Maps
  •      
         
         
         

     

    CONTRIBUTIONS OF DATA, IDEAS, RESEARCH RESULTS AND VOLUNTEERS WELCOME!

    JOIN IN --

     

     

    Subscribe to Mitsawokett

    Enter your email address
    then click on the button

     

     

    By subscribing to this list, you will have the list messages 
    e-mailed to you automatically, and you will be able to 
    participate in List discussions.

    Moderators: 
    Betty Davis Terry & John C. Carter 

     

    Footer


     
    WHAT'S NEW   

    INTRODUCTION

     EMAIL US

     

     

    MITSAWOKETT

    "The History and Genealogy of the
    Native American Isolate Communities
    of Kent County, Delaware, and
    Surrounding Areas on the Delmarva Peninsula
    and Southern New Jersey"


     

     

    Go To E-mail page
    All rights reserved.
    Not to be used for commercial purposes.

     

    Footer