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.
