Complete Delaware Roll of 1898

by Jeff Bowen

This work contains transcribed records of a roll, or census, taken in 1898 in Cherokee Indian Territory, of the resident Delaware Indians. Their names were copied from the original roll book belonging to Cornelius Wilson, which was loaned to the Herbert Barber family in California, descendants of Howard Ketchum (a Delaware ancestor).

A unique and important compilation, this book will assist anyone who is interested in Native Delaware (or Lenni Lenape) ancestry, as well as genealogists attempting to prove such ancestry. This tribe, originally inhabitants of the New Jersey and New York areas, was eventually forced west to Upstate New York, Canada, and Oklahoma, among other locales. These records were laboriously copied by Mr. Bowen, an accomplished and experienced transcriber of Native material, and are accurate and complete. Original Native names are used in many cases, spelled phonetically.

We are proud to list this work among those that should be in the libraries of anyone seriously undertaking Native American research.