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!
Brotherton. The name of two distinct
bands, each formed of remnants of various
Algonquian tribes. The
best-known band was composed of individuals of the Mahican, Wappinger,
Mohegan, Pequot, Narraganset,
etc., of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and of the Montauk and others from
Long Island, who settled in 1788 on land given them by the Oneida at the
present Marshall, Oneida county, N. Y., near the settlement then occupied
by the Stockbridge. Those of New England were mainly from Farnington,
Stonington, Groton, Mohegan, and Niantic (Lynne), in Connecticut, and from
Charlestown in Rhode Island. They all went under the leadership of
Samson Occum the Indian minister, and on
arriving in Oneida county called their settlement Brotherton. As their
dialects were different they adopted the English language. They numbered
250 in 1791. In 1833 they removed to Wisconsin with the
Oneida and
Stockbridge and settled on the east side of Winnebago lake, in Calumet
county, where they soon after abandoned their tribal relations and became
citizens, together with the other emigrant tribes settled near Green Bay.
They are called Wapanachki, "eastern people," by the neighboring
Algonquian tribes.
The other band of that name was composed of Raritan and
other divisions of the Delaware who, according to Ruttenber (Tribes
Hudson River, 293, 1872), occupied a reservation called Brotherton, in
Burlington co., N. J., until 1802, when they accepted an invitation to
unite with the Stockbridge and Brotherton then living in Oneida county, N.
Y. In 1832 they sold their last rights in New Jersey. They were then
reduced to about 40 souls and were officially recognized as Delaware and
claimed territory south of the Raritan as their ancient hone. Their
descendants are probably to be found among the Stockbridge in Wisconsin.
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