Delaware
Indian Chiefs and Leaders
Chief Tammany
TAMMANY, Indian chief,who lived in the 17th century. He was chief of the Delawares, He was known by and called several names :Temane, Tamenand, Taminent, Tameny, and Tammany. According to one account, he was the first
Indian to welcome William Penn to this country, and was a party to Penn's famous treaty.Tamanend was the sachem or trusted spokesman of his village.
THE TAMANEND TRIBUTE
ROCKTammany as the greatest and best chief known to Delaware tribal tradition.
Whites considered him a great man. In the Revolutionary war his enthusiastic admirers dubbed him a saint...St. Tammany, the Patron Saint of
America. His
name was inserted in some calendars, and his festival celebrated on the first day of May in every year."
"Sons of King Tammany," with strongly Loyalist tendency. It is probable that the "Saint Tammany"
society was a later organization of Revolutionary sympathizers opposed to the kingly idea
To this early period belongs their great chief Tamenend from whom the Tammany Society takes its
name.
