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Blandina Kiersted Bayard’s Purchase of Land from the
Hackensack Indians, 1700
TRANSCRIPTION
To
All Christian People and
other to whom
these presents shall or may come or whom The Premises
shall or may concern.
Know
Ye that We Serikham[1]
Ameharing Orahhenap
Orapeghin Ahkenham
Suckarine Taramedes
Nemerisennck Onan
= nekeman, Awesewanghke Newawightan
Ongh
= queckquenas Apiscoa
Ackemaightan Nanwe
= ron, Nansaweson Cominamangh
Noundam
Weamquamdewew being the right Owners and
Natural proprietors of five certain parcells [sic.] or
Tracts of Land scituate [sic] lying and being within
the province of New York called by us Indians
Ramapough Iapough
Iandakagh (& Campque)
containing in breadth three Dutch Miles and
in length four Dutch Miles Now
Know
Ye that We the Indians
above mentioned for divers
Good Causes and Several Kindnesses received but
especially for Sundry Goods and Wares to us by
Blandina Bayard of the City of New York Widow
well and truely [sic] paid to the Value of one hundred
and Twenty pounds Current Money of New York
with the which We Acknowledge that We are fully
Satisfied Contented and paid Have fully freely
and absolutely given Granted Bargained and
Sold and do by these presents give Grant Bargain
and Sell unto her the said Blandina Bayard all
and Singular the said four parcells [sic] or Tracts of
Land before mentioned with their and every of
their priviledges [sic] and appurtenances to them belong
= ing and all the right and Title property and poses
= sion Claim and demand whatsoever of us the
said Indians of in or to the Same
To
have
and
to hold
the said five
Tracts or parcels
of land before Granted with their and every
of their appurtenances to her the Said Blandina
Bayard her heirs and Assigns to the only proper
use and Behoof of her the said Blandina
Bayard her heirs and assigns forever.
In
Witness
whereof we have hereunto Set
our hands
and seals the tenth day of August in the twelfth
Year of his Majesty’s Reign Anno Dom. 1700
Serikham his
~
mark (LS)[2]
Ameharing his
~
mark
(LS) Oraghe
= nap his ~
mark (LS) Orapeghin
his ~
mark (LS) Ashkenhim
his mark (LS)
Suckarin his
.
mark (LS) Taramedes his
.
mark (LS)
Nemeriscunck his
~ mark (LS)
Onaneckeman his ~
mark (LS)
Awesewanghke his .
mark (LS) Newanwightan his .
mark (LS)
Onghqueckquena his .
mark
(LS) Apiscoa his .
mark (LS)
Ackemaighan his .
mark (LS) Nanweron her
.
mark (LS)
Cominameugh her
.
mark (LS) Noundam
her .
mark (LS)
Weamquamdemaugh her
~
mark (LS) Signed Sealed
and Delivered by the above mentioned Indians
in the presence of us and Memerandum [sic] that the
words (& Camque) was Interlyn’d before Sealing
and delivery hereof. Pyeter
Synkam Jacob Blom
Wm Huddleston
See four Indians signe viz.
Serickham Oraghenap
Orapeghin Ahkenhim
~
New York Secretarys Office 10th August 1769
The afore written is true copy of the record of this
Office in Lib. Records of Lycences to purchase Lands
&c. page 91 &c.
Examined by me
Signed Gw Banyard D
Secr’y[3]
[1]
Because there was no written Lenape language at the time, the
deed recorder guessed at a spelling of the names of the 19 men and
women who sold the land. His
spellings differ within the document.
[2]
(LS) stands for locus sigilli, the legal term indicating
the location of a seal in the original.
[3]
G[oldbro]w Banyar, the Deputy Secretary of the Royal Commission
for Settling the Boundaries of New York and New Jersey, copied the
original deed as evidence in the Commission’s 1769 hearings.
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