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A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman

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On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was once establishing her residency—a claim that prepared the ground for her removal to the poorhouse. In the end, on the other hand, it meant final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained. Thus was once William Penn’s “peaceable kingdom” preserved. 

A Lenape a few of the Quakers reconstructs Freeman’s history, from the days of her grandmothers before European settlement to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The story that emerges is one of persistence and resilience, as “Indian Hannah” negotiates life with the Quaker neighbors who employ her, entrust their children to her, searching for out her healing skills, and, when she is weakened by sickness and age, handle her. Yet these are the same neighbors whose families then dispossess her own. Fascinating in its own right, Freeman’s life could also be remarkable as a unique account of a Native American woman in a colonial community all through a time of dramatic transformation and upheaval. In particular, it expands our understanding of colonial history and the Native experience that history incessantly renders silent.
 


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