Chief Nutimus, Unami (Turtle) Clan, Delaware Lenape

Nutimus, "Turkey" in English 1650 - 1756 , New Jersey

Nutimus - English name Turkey. He was noted in 1734 as a good blacksmith and a famous Indian doctor from New Jersey. He was Chief of the Lenape on the Forks. Nutimus met with James Logan in 1735 and was shown a copy of the false deed wherein the Lenape had sold land to William Penn. This was the infamous Walking Purchase. As a result of the deed, Nutimus and his people were forced to move to the Susquehanna. In 1756 he met with Sir William Johnson who removed the "petticoat" and placed a hatchet in the hands of the Lenape to use against the French. (Lenape Nation on the Web)

Source: http://lenapedelawarehistory.net/mirror/persN-Z.htm

Julia Sommerkamp added this on 16 Jan 2009 Biography of Nutimus Source: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/9212950/person/-806255289/media/1?pg...

NUTIMUS (NOOTAMIS) A Delaware Chief - New Jersey/Pennsylvania Posted: 4 May 2002 3:33PM GMT Classification: Query Edited: 21 Jan 2004 3:39PM GMT Surnames: SATTERTHWAITE "Indians in Pennsylvania", by Paul A.W. Wallace:

NUTIMUS (NOOTAMIS) - A Delaware Chief, originally from New Jersey. When his grandfather in Pennsylvania died, he took up residence on ancestral land betweem Tohiccon Creek and the Lehigh River. He was a good blacksmith and a famous Indian doctor, reputed to have cured his daughter of madness induced by the bite of a mad dog and to have saved the life of the poet William SATTERTHWAITE who was bitten by a rattlesnake. From 1734 to 1737 he was involved in altercations with the Penns over land encroachments. In 1737 he signed the confirmation deed for the Walking Purchase, but protested the manner in which the walk was performed. When the Six Nations rejected his protest, he crossed the mountains to the North Branch of the Susquehanna and settled at Nuttimus Town, west of present Nescopeck. There he lived in a large house with his five married sons and their families and five Negro servants. He was a friend of the English. When the French and Indian War broke out, he moved north to the neighborhood of Passigachkunk (Canistero, NY). At the time of Pontiac's War, he moved to the Big Island (Lock Haven) on the West Branch of the Susquehanna. Stories of his later residence and death in the Ohio country involve confusion between "Old KING NUTIMUS and his son Isaac NUTIMUS.

Source: http://boards.ancestry.ca/topics.ethnic.natam.intertribal.chiefs/16...