" INDIAN ROCK." Ill 



their kindred in New Jersey.'^ Andrew was laid lo rest in the 

 Friends' grave^'ard, in Middletown, but the date of interment 

 is unknown. 



On a portion of the broad acres held by the Minshall 

 family there was an Indian burial g^round. One of those fire- 

 side tales that have been handed down from remote years sets 

 forth that several old clearings in the "Barrens" were used 

 by Indians, who tilled these tracts or lived thereon. 



A village called Macocks was located on Smith's map of 

 1608 (Smith, Virginia, I, repr. iSig) some distance north of 

 Chikohoki, which, according to Brinton, was near the present 

 Wilmington. Delaware. This would make Macocks a Dela- 

 ware village in southeastern Pennsylvania, and Brinton thinks 

 it may have been the village of the Okahoki, a band of the 

 Delawares, formerly in Delaware Count}', Pa. t 



The Okahoki were transferred, about 1702, to a small reser- 

 vation of five hundred acres in what is now Willistown Town- 

 ship, Chester County. X 



The region of Dismal Run is idyllic. Within its calm 

 retreats the spirit of change moves slowly. Over it broods a 

 sense of peaceful rest. Among its leafy glades, rich in the 

 song of birds and the bloom of flowers, 



" Far troni the luadiling crowd'? ignoble strife," 



one ma}' drink as from the font 'of youth eternal. Nature 

 scarce has loosed her sway since, by the dim and flickering 

 light of the council brand, some aged waiTior has retold the 

 wierd tale of departed glories, and the artless children of the 

 forest were cradled in the everlasting hills. 



May Time deal gently with the " Indian Rock ! " It calls 

 up visions of a race that has passed — who left in a quiet 

 glen in Middletown this mute impress of their passing. 



*Early in the la-t cenlnr\-, aei-onlinti' lo Aslimead. 

 tBnllelin No. ^(j, Knrean of American Ktlmologv. 

 t " History of Delaware Oonnly, Pa.," In Dr. (Teorge Smith. 



