Okehocking Indian Town - PLAQUE
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The chiefs Pokhais, Sepopawny and Muttagooppa with their people, of the Unami group *Their totem * The tortoise * of the Lenni-Lenape or Delawares were moved from Lower Ridley and Crum Creeks by William Penn to a square tract of 500 acres on the north side of this road East of Ridley Creek, the only Indian Reservation the Proprietor ever established 1701.
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