Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History
[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Vil- Ohio, by the name Buckchitawa and “Paugh-chase-wey’s or Sun lage State Memorial, managed by the Ohio Historical Society in the Fish Creek” (Hutchins’ 1764 itinerary in Hanna 1911 2:196). James City of New Philadelphia, preserves reconstructed log cabins and Rementer notes that Paugh-chase-wey sounds much like other structures erected within the archaeological footprint of the puckchewes, the Southern and Northern Unami words for sunfish. Moravian Indian mission town of Schoenbrunn, “beautiful spring,” Whritenour observes that the Munsees use a different word, mechbuilt in 1772. English traveler Nicholas Cresswell paid a couple of galingus, to identify the fish. Sun Fish was the name of one of the visits to the place that he identified as “Whale-hak-tup-pake, or the Delaware chief warriors attending a meeting with Sir William Johntown with a good spring” during the summer of 1775 (in Gill and son in May 1765 (Weslager 1972:250). Curtis 2009:74, 78). Abandoned in 1777 as frontier violence brought on by the TWIGHTWEE (Hamilton County). Evidently a Unami word, Revolutionary War began ravaging the region, the community was tuwéhtuwe, of uncertain etymology sometimes thought to represent reestablished as New Schoenbrunn on the west side of the river in the call of cranes (in Bright 2004:526), Twightwee today is the name 1779. The new settlement’s inhabitants soon joined other Tus- of a hamlet on the banks of the Little Miami River midway between carawas Valley Moravian Delawares forced by British authorities Cincinnati and Dayton. Delaware Indians and colonists often reto move farther west to Captives Town on the upper Sandusky River ferred to Miami Indians and their closely affiliated Illinois neigh(see above) in 1781. Nearly 20 years passed before Moravians re- bors as Twightwees. turning to the Tuscarawas Valley built the Goshen Mission just south of the site of New Schoenbrunn in 1798. Most of the town’s TYMOCHTEE (Wyandot County). A Wyandot word translated as inhabitants moved north to Moraviantown (see below in Ontario) “the stream around the plains” (in Bright 2004:527), the name Tyor west to join the main body of the Delaware Indian Nation by the mochtee currently adorns a township (laid out in 1848), the town time the closing of Goshen in 1821 ended Moravian missionary ef- center, and a major tributary stream of the Sandusky River. Tyforts among Indians in Ohio. mochtee was the site of a substantial Delaware Indian town where Captain Pipe (see above) resided during the latter years of the AmerSIPPO (Stark Counties). The name first noted in 1833 (A Citizen ican Revolution. The name achieved widespread notoriety as the of Columbus 1833:408) as adorning Sippo Lake and the five-mile- place where Colonel William Crawford and several other militialong Sippo Creek tributary of the Tuscarawas River in northeastern men captured while on their way to attack Sandusky (see above) Ohio, probably derives from the Munsee word siipuw, or its Unami were tortured and killed on June 11, 1782, by Delaware warriors equivalent, sipu, “river.” Today, this Delaware place name also outraged by the Gnadenhutten massacre (see above) and other atrocgraces such places in northeastern Ohio as the communities of ities committed by Americans. Sippo and Sippo Heights, Sippo Lake Regional Park, South Sippo Park, and Sippo Creek as its flows through Stark County to it junc- WALHONDING (Coshocton County). Mahr (1957:145-146) sugtion with the Tuscarawas River at the City of Massillon. gested that Walhonding came from a Unami Delaware Indian word, Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 129 rank of Turkey phratry leader following Netawatwees’ death in 1774, Anderson helped those of his nation who came to oppose American revolutionaries after 1778 move from their Muskingum Valley towns (see above in Ohio) farther west to the relative safety of the Maumee Valley. One of the leaders of Delawares who joined the Indian confederation resisting American expansion to Ohio after the Revolution ended, he joined those of his nation already living in Miami Indian territory along Indiana’s White River valley after reluctantly signing away most of his people’s land in Ohio at the 1795 Treaty of Greenville (see in Ohio above), signed one year after American troops defeated the confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (Oklahoma State University Library 1999-2000). In 1798, Anderson established his settlement of Woapiminschi, a name that means “where the white nit (i.e., chestnut) trees grow” in Northern Unami and Munsee (McCafferty 2008:92-93), on land within the limits of the city that today bears his name. Moravians maintained what they called their Little Indian Congregation on the White River at a small mission settlement located three or four miles from Anderson’s Town between 1801 and 1806 (Gipson 1938:381, 606). Anderson was a traditionalist who, along with the prominent war captain Buckongkehelas (who died in 1805; see Bokengehalas above in Ohio), shared the belief widely held by Indians on the White River that Moravians bore