6 January 1780

Calvin, Bartholomew, fl. 1780-1798

Document signed

Title: [Statement opposing white settlement on Indian land in Brotherton, New Jersey]

A strong statement signed by eight Indians showing alarm over white settlers moving onto their land, forbidding it in the future, making illegitimate leases null and void, and voicing hopes to "live in Quietness among one another without giving any offense to one another. Jacob Skekit and Bartholomew Calvin sign in full, and six others signed with marks. Brotherton is now known as Indian Mills in Burlington County, in Southern N.J.

GLC00540.01

January 20, 1798

Calvin, Bartholomew, fl. 1780-1798

Document signed

Title: [Brotherton statement of refusal to leave New Jersey]

Statement sent to Joseph Saltar that describes meeting in which the Brotherton unanimously agreed to express their refusal to leave "our fine place in Jersey" in the face of white encroachment. Signed in full by Jacob Skekit and Bartholomew Calvin, and eighteen other Indians. Eighteen years earlier, the same group had expressed alarm over white settlers moving onto their land (see GLC00540.01). Brotherton, New Jersey is now known as Indian Mills in Burlington County, in Southern N.J.

GLC00540.02