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Sassoonan, the Glossary

Sassoonan or Allumapees (1675 – 15 October 1747) was a Lenape chief who lived in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania in the late 17th and early 18th century.^[1]

53 relations: Andrew Montour, August Gottlieb Spangenberg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania), Charles Gookin, Conrad Weiser, David Zeisberger, Delaware River, Duck Creek (Smyrna River tributary), French and Indian War, Gunpowder, Hundredweight, Incivility, James Logan (statesman), John Penn ("the American"), Juniata River, Kittanning (village), Kuskusky, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh River, Lenape, Logstown, Medicine man, Meshemethequater, Nenatcheehunt, Ohio Country, Opessa Straight Tail, Palatines, Paxtang, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Provincial Council, Pisquetomen, Province of New Jersey, Province of Pennsylvania, Richard Penn Sr., Sachem, Schoharie Valley, Shamokin (village), Shikellamy, Shingas, Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet, Susquehanna River, Tamanend, Tamaqua (Lenape chief), Tanacharison, Thomas Penn, Tulpehocken Creek (Pennsylvania), Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania, Tuscarora people, Walking Purchase, ... Expand index (3 more) »
Lenape people
Native American people from Pennsylvania

Andrew Montour

Andrew Montour (– 1772), also known as Sattelihu, Eghnisara,Hagedorn, 57 and Henry,Montour was also called Henry, possibly due to the similarity of sound with the French "Andre". was an important mixed interpreter and negotiator in the Virginia and Pennsylvania backcountry in the latter half of the 18th century. Sassoonan and Andrew Montour are native American leaders and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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August Gottlieb Spangenberg

August Gottlieb Spangenberg (15 July 170418 September 1792) was a German theologian, minister, and bishop of the Moravian Church.

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Berks County, Pennsylvania

Berks County (Pennsylvania German: Barricks Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania)

Blue Mountain, Blue Mountain Ridge, or the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania is a ridge of the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania.

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Charles Gookin

Charles Gookin (c. 1660–c. 1723) was a deputy governor of the Province of Pennsylvania.

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Conrad Weiser

Conrad Weiser (November 2, 1696 – July 13, 1760), born Johann Conrad Weiser, Jr., was a Pennsylvania Dutch (German) pioneer who served as an interpreter and diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native American nations.

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David Zeisberger

David Zeisberger (April 11, 1721 – November 17, 1808) was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native American tribes who resided in the Thirteen Colonies.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States.

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Duck Creek (Smyrna River tributary)

Duck Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to Smyrna River in New Castle County, Delaware.

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French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hundredweight

The hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is a British imperial and United States customary unit of weight or mass.

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Incivility

Incivility is a general term for social behaviour lacking in civility or good manners, on a scale from rudeness or lack of respect for elders, to vandalism and hooliganism, through public drunkenness and threatening behaviour.

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James Logan (statesman)

James Logan (20 October 167431 October 1751) was a Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia and held a number of other public offices.

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John Penn ("the American")

John Penn (January 28, 1700 – October 25, 1746) was an American-born merchant who was proprietor of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania, which became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania following American independence obtained in victory in the American Revolutionary War.

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Juniata River

The Juniata River (pronounced joo-nee-a-tuh) is a tributary of the Susquehanna River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Kittanning (village)

Kittanning (Lenape Kithanink) was an 18th-century Native American village in the Ohio Country, located on the Allegheny River at present-day Kittanning, Pennsylvania. Sassoonan and Kittanning (village) are native American history of Pennsylvania.

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Kuskusky

Kuskusky, also known as the Kuskuskies Towns, Kuskuskie Towns, or Kuskuskies' Indian Town, with a wide variety of other spellings, were several Native American communities inhabited near New Castle, Mahoning, and Edinburg, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio, during the mid-18th century. Sassoonan and Kuskusky are native American history of Pennsylvania.

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Lebanon County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Lebanon Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States.

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Lehigh River

The Lehigh River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Lenape

The Lenape (Lenape languages), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Sassoonan and Lenape are native American history of Pennsylvania.

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Logstown

The riverside village of Logstown (1725?, 1727–1758) also known as Logg's Town, French: Chiningue (transliterated to Shenango) near modern-day Baden, Pennsylvania, was a significant Native American settlement in Western Pennsylvania and the site of the 1752 signing of the Treaty of Logstown between the Ohio Company, the Colony of Virginia, and the Six Nations, which occupied the region. Sassoonan and Logstown are native American history of Pennsylvania.

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Medicine man

A medicine man (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini) or medicine woman (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe) is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas.

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Meshemethequater

Meshemethequater (1690 or 1691–1758) also known as Big Hominy, Great Huminy, Misemeathaquatha, Missemediqueety, or Big Hannoana was a Pekowi Shawnee chief from western Pennsylvania. Sassoonan and Meshemethequater are 18th-century Native Americans, history of Pennsylvania, native American leaders and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Nenatcheehunt

Nenatcheehunt (died 30 April 1762), also spelled Nenacheehunt, or Nenatchehan, and sometimes referred to as Menatochyand, was a Lenape chief known for participating in peace negotiations at the end of the French and Indian War. Sassoonan and Nenatcheehunt are history of Pennsylvania, Lenape people, native American history of Pennsylvania and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Ohio Country

The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, Ohio Valley) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie.

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Opessa Straight Tail

Opessa Straight Tail, also known as Wopatha or Wapatha, was a Pekowi Shawnee Chief. Sassoonan and Opessa Straight Tail are history of Pennsylvania, native American leaders and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Palatines

Palatines were the citizens and princes of the Palatinates, Holy Roman States that served as capitals for the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Paxtang, Pennsylvania

Paxtang is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Pennsylvania Provincial Council

The Pennsylvania Provincial Council helped govern the Province of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1776.

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Pisquetomen

Pisquetomen (died 1762) was a Lenape chief who acted as interpreter and negotiator for the Lenape in dealings with the Provincial government of Pennsylvania during the mid-eighteenth century. Sassoonan and Pisquetomen are 18th-century Native Americans, history of Pennsylvania, Lenape people, native American history of Pennsylvania, native American leaders and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Province of New Jersey

The Province of New Jersey was one of the Middle Colonies of Colonial America and became the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1776.

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Province of Pennsylvania

The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681.

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Richard Penn Sr.

Richard Penn Sr. (17 January 1706 – 4 February 1771) was a proprietary and titular governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, which then included present-day Delaware.

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Sachem

Sachems and sagamores are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois.

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Schoharie Valley

The Schoharie Valley is a corridor that runs through Schoharie County from Schoharie, New York to Gilboa, New York.

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Shamokin (village)

Shamokin (Saponi Algonquian Schahamokink: "place of crawfish") (Lenape: Shahëmokink) was a multi-ethnic Native American trading village on the Susquehanna River, located partially within the limits of the modern cities of Sunbury and Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania. Sassoonan and Shamokin (village) are native American history of Pennsylvania.

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Shikellamy

Shikellamy (1680 - December 6, 1748), also spelled Shickellamy and also known as Swatana, was an Oneida chief and overseer for the Iroquois confederacy. Sassoonan and Shikellamy are 18th-century Native Americans, native American leaders and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Shingas

Shingas (fl. 1740 – 1763) was a Lenape chief and warrior who participated in military activities in Ohio Country during the French and Indian War. Sassoonan and Shingas are Lenape people, native American leaders and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet

Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet (1669 – 18 November 1749) was a Scottish colonial administrator who served as lieutenant-governor of the British colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware, from 1717 to 1726.

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Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River (Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, crossing three lower Northeast states (New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland).

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Tamanend

Tamanend (historically also known as Taminent, Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, "the Affable") (–) was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle Clan of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the peace treaty with William Penn. Sassoonan and Tamanend are Lenape people and native American leaders.

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Tamaqua (Lenape chief)

Tamaqua or Tamaque, also known as The Beaver and King Beaver (– 1769 or 1771), was a leading man of the Unalachtigo (Turkey) phratry of the Lenape people. Sassoonan and Tamaqua (Lenape chief) are history of Pennsylvania, Lenape people, native American history of Pennsylvania and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Tanacharison

Tanacharison (c. 1700 – 4 October 1754), also called Tanaghrisson, was a Native American leader who played a pivotal role in the beginning of the French and Indian War. Sassoonan and Tanacharison are native American leaders and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Thomas Penn

Thomas Penn (– 21 March 1775) was an English landowner and mercer who was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775.

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Tulpehocken Creek (Pennsylvania)

Tulpehocken Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania

Tulpehocken Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Tuscarora people

The Tuscarora (in Tuscarora Skarù:ręˀ) are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands in Canada and the United States.

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Walking Purchase

The Walking Purchase, also known as the Walking Treaty, was a 1737 agreement between the family of William Penn, the original proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape native Indians. Sassoonan and Walking Purchase are native American history of Pennsylvania.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoonan

Also known as Allumapees.

, Wampum, West Jersey, Wyoming Valley.

Sassoonan, the Glossary

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Lenape people

Native American people from Pennsylvania

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