Chief Lappawinsoe (also spelled as Lapowinsa) was a signer of the infamous 1735 Walking Treaty which he and other Lanape chieftans would spend twenty years unsuccessfully trying to have voided.
(Google Walking Purchase to read more about how the Lanape tribes lost their lands in the Lehigh Valley to William Penn's sons.)
We are related through my Grandmother Delphia Means Ridnour. I wonder what she would think of this.
Here is the lineage from me back: Ramona L. (b.1943), daughter of Ruth Ridnour (b.1919), daughter of Delphia Means (b.1896), daughter of Matilda Lippincott (b.1863), daughter of David Lippincott (b.1829), son of Thomas Lippincott (b.1800) married to Elizabeth Van Brunt (b.1806), daughter of Joseph Van Brunt (b.1758) and Mary Applegate (b.1756), daughter of Ebenezer Applegate Sr. (b.1723), son of Mary Leni Lenape (b.1695), daughter of Chief Lennie Lanape Lappawinsoe (b. circa 1600), son of Anna W. B. L. Lenni Lanape (b.1635). His father is unknown but his grandparents were Chief Big John Lenni Lanape and Delaware Indian Maiden Waikusanin. Those last two were born in the early 1600's.
Even with the aid of a family fan chart it is easy to get lost in all those past names. At one point I saw a ?x great-grandmother from South America. I may, or may not try to go back and find her and trace the lineage back.
Compared to when I began trying to build a family tree and was writing letters to distant cousins of my grandmother, it's a piece of cake now.
Except for the use of triple L's in our family's names, I don't see any familial similarities.
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