Lenapi Indians

Middlesex County Cultural Heritage Saturday, September 26, 2012 2 p.m. at the The Lodge at Thompson Park 1701 Perrineville Road Jamesburg/Monroe, NJ Funded by Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of the Department of State Lenape in the Delaware Valley Historian Jean Soderlund will present a lecture on the history of interactions between Lenape Indians and early English, Dutch, and Swedish settlements in the Delaware Valley. She will show that the hallmarks of Delaware Valley society - commitment to personal freedom, religious liberty, and peaceful resolution of conflict - began with the Lenapes. Jean R. Soderlund is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Most recently she has written Lenape County: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is also the author of Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit, for which she received the Alfred E. Driscoll Publication Prize from the New Jersey Historical Commission. Free of Charge - Registration Required 732.745.4489