Excerpt from Jersey City and Its Historic Sites
Shinaki, the Land of the Fir Trees, which was prob ably north oi Lake Superior, and in their migrations they came upon the Cherokees, probably in the ninth or tenth century of our era, with whom they fought one hundred years for possession of the Ohio Valley. Final. Ly the Cherokees went south and the Lenape eventual ly, in the eleventh or twelfth century, made their home in the mountainous region of the head waters of the Delaware river. Their hunting grounds included lands now in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. In 1758, New Jersey paid them for their lands in this State.
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