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====Lenni Lenape==== The [[Lenape|Lenni Lenape]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] were the first known organized inhabitants of this area, having settled here about one thousand years ago and forming an agricultural society, occupying small villages that dotted what was to become Marlboro Township.<ref>[http://www.ushistory.org/laz/history/timeline.htm Lazaretto: Time Line] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517124237/http://www.ushistory.org/laz/history/timeline.htm |date=2008-05-17 }}, Lazaretto Quarantine Station. Accessed August 30, 2015.</ref> Their villages were known to be in the Wickatunk and Crawford's Corner sections of the township.<ref>William S. Hornor, This Old Monmouth of Ours, published 1932, Page 190</ref><ref name=ColtsNeck/> In 1600, the Delaware / Lenape Native American population in the surrounding area may have numbered as many as 20,000.<ref>Winson, Terrie. [https://archive.today/20120718101518/http://www.anthro4n6.net/lenape/ "Lenni Lenape"], [[Reading Area Community College]], March 2002, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of December 11, 2008. Accessed July 16, 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.penntreatymuseum.org/americans.php Native Americans], Penn Treaty Museum. Accessed July 16, 2015.</ref> Several wars, at least 14 separate epidemics ([[yellow fever]], [[smallpox]], [[influenza]], [[encephalitis lethargica]], etc.) and disastrous over-harvesting of the animal populations reduced their population to around 4,000 by the year 1700. Since the Lenape people, like all Native Americans, had no immunity to European diseases, when the populations contacted the epidemics, they frequently proved fatal.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120127152915/http://www.ulster.net/~hrmm/halfmoon/lenape/lenape.pdf "The Lenapes: A study of Hudson Valley Indians"], Welcome to Marist Country, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of January 27, 2012. Accessed July 16, 2015.</ref> Some Lenape starved to death as a result of animal over-harvesting, while others were forced to trade their land for goods such as clothing and food. They were eventually moved to reservations set up by the US Government. They were first moved to the only Indian Reservation in New Jersey, the Brotherton Reservation in [[Burlington County, New Jersey]] (1758β1802).<ref>Thomas, JD. [http://www.accessible-archives.com/2013/08/colonies-first-new-jerseys-indian-reservation/ "The Colonies' First and New Jersey's Only Indian Reservation"], Accessible Archives, August 29, 2013. Accessed July 16, 2015.</ref> Those who remained survived through attempting to adapt to the dominant culture, becoming farmers and tradesmen.<ref>[http://www.nanticoke-lenape.info/history.htm Our Tribal History], The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape. Accessed July 16, 2015.</ref> As the Lenni Lenape population declined, and the European population increased, the history of the area was increasingly defined by the new European inhabitants and the Lenape Native American tribes played an increasingly secondary role.
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