Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society and New Jersey Fight Over Deed
In 1758, a group of American Indian chiefs signed a land deed with New Jersey colonists to everyone’s “joy and mutual satisfaction.”
The controversy kicked in nearly 250 years later.
Believing that it owned the document, the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society was writing out invitations to its March unveiling when the State of New Jersey […]