A sachem of the Toponemese — the inland inhabitants — of the Lenape. His mark and seal are on the 1674 deed granting Warumnonung, called by the English The Falls, to John Bowne, Richard Hartshorne, and James Grover. The document survives at Princeton University Library.
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