Dr. Nyland W. Rice, deceased, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1850. His literary education received at Claveric University, and his medical education at Hahnemann, Philadelphia. At the latter place the first honors of his class were bestowed upon him, by which he was appointed to practice two years in the college hospital. After this […]
FRANK LYMAN GOLD-A man of wide and varied activities, each of which he has carried on successfully after he had gained full knowledge of the field of business into which he was entering, the story of Frank Lyman Gold is full of interest. (I) He belongs to a notable old New England family, whose founder
Delaware African American Genealogy online research is much more difficult due to the scant nature of record keeping for African American’s prior to the Civil War. This is the reason for creating a separate section for African Americans much like we have for Native Americans who’s research can also be hampered by the available records.
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was the state of Delaware at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Buckstown Chikohoki to Cuscarawaoc
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A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Chikohoki (from Chikelaki; chikeno ‘turkey’, aki ‘land’). The former principal seat of the Unalachtigo Delawares, situated on the w. bank of Delaware r. , near the present Wilmington, Del. Cuscarawaoc (place of making white beads.
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A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Buckstown. A Delaware (?) village marked on Royce’s map (1st Rep. B. A. E., 1881) as on the s. E. side of White r. , about 3 m. E. of Anderson, Madison co., Ind., on
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Unalachtigo Indians (properly W’nalātchtko, people who live near the ocean,’ because of their proximity to Delaware Bay – Brinton). The southernmost of the three main divisions of the Delaware, occupying the west bank of Delaware river, in Delaware, and probably also the east bank, in New Jersey, since many of the Delaware were forced to
