Profiles like those for this family make me feel actually ill. The many unsourced LDS trees list Bartholmew Applegate’s wife as “Lenape Squaw,” some Internet trees include the horrible racist myth that a Lenape woman was sold to a white man. None include one shred of evidence that any of the claimed Indians ever existed or explain how or why a white man from New Jersey would be marrying one of the handful of Lenape who remained in the area after 1700. The parents of Batholomew Applegate are well documented, Batholomew is named in his father’s will, and Batholomew and wife Mary are found in a baptismal record for son Jacob.
