He was one of their sachems or kings, and lived possibly as late as 1680. Heckewelder says: "The fame of this great man extended even among the whites, who fabricated numerous legends respecting him, which I never heard, however, from the mouth of an Indian, and therefore believe to be fabulous."

He is said to have been a resident of the present county of Bucks, in Pennsylvania, and that he was buried near a spring about three and a half miles west of Doylestown, in that county.

Heckewelder adds, that when Colonel George Morgan of Princeton, visited the western Indians, by order of congress, in 1776, he was so beloved for his goodness that the Lenapes gave to him the name of their venerated chief. Morgan brought back to the whites such glowing accounts of the qualities of the ancient chief, that, in the revolutionary war, he was dubbed a saint, his name

val celebrated

was placed on some calendars, and his festi on the first day of May in every year. " On

that day a numerous society of votaries walked together in pro cession through the streets of Philadelphia, their hats decorated

with bucks' tails, and proceeded to a handsome rural place out of town which they called a wigwam, where, after a long talk or Indian speech had been delivered, and the calumet of friend ship and peace had been smoked, they spent the day in festivity

and mirth.

After dinner Indian dances were performed on the