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In a snug valley, sheltered from the winds, alongside the White Clay stream, there was a Lenape town, called Minguannan. It is likely that there were never more than 100 residents, but it was long used as relics dug
from the earth seem to show. Then settlers came, who claimed the land by purchase from that great landlord William Penn, and built thereon a church which came to be called the “London Tract Meeting”, or the
“Welsh Tract church at Indiantown.” By 1750, there remained a single old indian woman who eked out her living as a servant.
The church and churchyard remain, as do stories of those who lived and died there. One, they say, was buried with his timepiece, and it is called the “ticking tomb,” although few can say nowadays which it is. Services were held there until quite recently. It is now an information office for the White Clay Park.
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