Indian Hannah (1730-1802) - PLAQUE
East Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Marker Inscription
The last of the Indians in Chester County was born in the vale about 300 yards to the east on the land of the protector of her people the Quaker assemblyman WILLIAM WEBB. Her mother was Indian Sarah and her grandmother Indian Jane of the Unami group * their totem * the Tortoise * Of the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Indians
Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Story
Indian Hannah, born nearby around 1730, is remembered as the last of the Lenape (Delaware) Indians of Chester County, descended through her mother and grandmother from the Unami people of the Turtle clan. She lived out her long life under the protection of the Quaker assemblyman William Webb, in a county from which nearly all her people had already been displaced. Her story is that of a Native community's twilight in a corner of Penn's colony.
Why it matters
Indian Hannah's life is a poignant marker of the vanishing of the Lenape from the lands they had inhabited for centuries, seen through a single remembered woman.
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Related people
- ¡ Indian Hannah
- ¡ Indian Sarah
- ¡ William Webb
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