While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
C- New Jersey Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Cashiehtunk. A village, probably be longing to the
Munsee, situated in 1738 on Delaware r., near the junction of the N. New
Jersey state line. Golden (1738) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vi, 124, 1855.
Chikohoki. A former village, said to be of the Manta
division of the Delawares, on the site of Burlington, Burling ton co. , N. J.
According to Heckewelder it was the oldest village on Delaware r. (J. M.)
Communipaw ('good fishing'. Jones, Ind. Bui., 15,
1867). The principal village of the Hackensack, about 1630, at the present
Communipaw, Hudson co., N. J. (J. M.)
Crossweeksung (the house of separation (?). Boudinot).
A former Delaware village in Burlington co., N. J., probably about the present
Cross wicks. A mission was established there by Brainerd in 1745. (J. M. )
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
