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With lawsuit against N.J., little-known Indian group is thrust into spotlight – Breaking News From New Jersey – NJ.com
The story of the Sand Hill Indians and the $1 trillion lawsuit be gins on a wooded slope in Monmouth County.
Rising in Neptune Township, Sand Hill was settled 132 years ago by Lenape and Cherokee Indians who raised cows and chickens and helped build Victorian houses in nearby Asbury Park. Some of their descendants, who say they are more extended family than tribe, still gather for reunions near the ancestral hill.
Mike McLaughlin/For The Star-LedgerClaire Garland, a member of the Sand Hill Indians, holds a peace pipe that belonged to James “Long Bear” Revey, the tribe’s contemporary patriarch.
But during the last decade, a second group has surfaced in North Jersey, headquartered in Paterson. Its members also call themselves Sand Hill Indians, saying they are named after the same spot.
The trouble is, the Sand Hills of Neptune say the ones in Paterson aren’t Sand Hills at all. And therein lies the debate.
It began quietly as a disagreement about genealogy and bloodlines but gradually spiraled into a bitter feud. And now, with a federal lawsuit naming Gov. Jon Corzine and all 21 counties, that feud has thrust a spotlight on the Sand Hills — a little-known group that historians say may include some of the last few local descendants of New Jersey’s original inhabitants.
RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Bloss, LaLone and Related Families of Northern NY
# ID: I46
# Name: Eechje “Eva” Claessen VAN DER VOLGEN
# Sex: F
# Birth: ABT 1682 in Schenectady, Albany, NY
# Death: 1767 in Canajoharie, Albany, NY
Father: Claes Lourense VAN DER VOLGEN b: 1650 in Purmerend, Holland
Mother: Maritje “Marytje” Teunisse SWART b: ABT 1663 in Schenectady, Albany, NY
Marriage 1 Bartholomew PICKARD b: 1676 in Willoughby, Leicestershire, England c: 18 SEP 1676 in St. Martin’s, Leicester, England
* Married: 12 NOV 1698 in Albany, Albany, NY
Children
1. Has No Children Bartholomew PICKARD b: 9 JAN 1700 in Schenectady, Albany, NY
2. Has Children Nicholas PICKARD b: 23 FEB 1701 in Schoharie, Albany, NY c: 23 FEB 1701 in Schenectady, Albany, NY
3. Has Children Dorothy PICKARD b: 28 JUL 1703 in Schnectady, Albany, NY
4. Has Children Rachel PICKARD b: 29 JAN 1707 in Albany, Albany, NY
5. Has No Children Gertrude PICKARD b: 2 JAN 1710 in Albany, Albany, NY
via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Bloss, LaLone and Related Families of Northern NY.
