By 1758, 200 of the 300 remaining Lenape Indians were placed in a reservation known as Brotherton covering about 3,000 acres, under the instruction of Reverend David Brainerd, a Moravian missionary from Scotland.[i] The first federal census in 1790 did not include any Native Americans, although it should be noted that “the Federal censuses never provided any classification for Indians,” according to James Revey, director of the New Jersey Indian Office.
By 1802, most of the Lenapes moved away or joined a tribe in New Stockbridge, Oneida County, N.Y.
By 1750, the Lenape had lost almost 90 percent of their people due to smallpox and other epidemics such as measles, mumps and scarlet fever, and constant wars. The remaining villages later left Lenapehoking and moved west. A majority settled in present day Oklahoma and Canada where communities can be found today.[ii]
[i] Burrows and Wallace, , Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Page number??
[ii] “The Lenape Today.” Lenape Lifeways. www.lenapelifeways.org/lenape4.htm#Today (Accessed April 27, 2015).
