Chief Nantikoke Nance (Nancy)

• General Notes
  • Nantikoke/Chief Nancy
    
    The Lenni Lenape/Delaware tribe's villages stretched along White River in Delaware, Madison, Hamilton and Marion counties. Charles Thompson, in his 1937 Sons of the Wilderness: John and William Conner, records one of their villages as existing close to the river's south bank somewhere in Jackson Township's section 1 or 2. This area was called the "the McClintock neighborhood" by several early 20th century historians who also discussed this Delaware village. Nancy's Town/Nancytown was the name given to it by white settlers as a corruption of Chief Nantikoke's name. The exact location of Nancy's Town is not pin-pointed, and the village does not seem to have had the same importance as those of chiefs Anderson, Killbuck, Pipe, and Munsee. Additionally, Nancy's Town did not exist as long as the others since there are some sources that confuse it with Straw's Town in Hamilton County.