A true account of the dying words of Ockanickon, an Indian king
Subtitle: Spoken to Jahkursoe, his brother's son, whom he appointed king after him
Contributors: Jahkursoe; Cripps, John, of Burlington, New-Jersey; Falkenberg, Hendrick Jacobs, approximately 1640-approximately 1712
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1683
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Delaware Indians; Indians of North America; Inheritance and succession; History
Notes: Place of publication suppled by Wing.

First printed in London, 1682.

"A letter sent from New-Jersey in America to a friend in London", verso of title page, dated and signed: Burlington the 12th of the 5th month, 1682. John Cripps.

Page 6 has the name of five English witnesses and five tribal members with their marks: Thomas Budd, Sarah Biddle, Mary Cripps, Anne Browne, and Jane Noble; Ockanicon, Jahkursoe, Matollionequay, wife to Ockanickon, Nomooponent, a prince and Telliuggrisee, a doctor.

"Henry Jacobs Falckinburs [sic], interpreter": foot of page 6.

Ockanickon was the sachem of a small band of Unami language-speaking Delaware Indians who lived in present day New Jersey and later were granted a tract of land by William Penn along the Ridley and Crum creeks in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Signatures: A⁴ (A4 blank).

Smith, J. Descriptive catalogue of Friends’ books, I:465

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 675n

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), O128

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, page 121

European Americana, 683/147

English short title catalogue, R42599

Purchase; before 1923; 05723.