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.
A Lenape Among the Quakers rec.
Thus was William Penn\'s "peaceable kingdom" preserved.
Ultimately, however, it meant final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained.
In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency--a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse.
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