by Dawn G. Marsh. Hardbound, 213 pages, 9 ½ “ x 6 ¾ “. 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. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency-a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant the final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained.                             

A Lenape Among the Quakers reconstructs Hanna Freeman’s history traveling from the time of her grandmothers before European settlement to the beginning of the 19^th century. The story that emerges is one of persistence and resilience.