Round two: five community stories — September 7, 2026

Five distinct new entries, recorded in round-two-root-items.json. No shared pages counted as research additions.

  1. Brotherton land statement: read Gilder Lehrman 1780 transcript and introductory history; downloaded PDF and visually checked reproduced manuscript. Mary Calvin and Bartholomew Calvin legible. Dartmouth Occom Circle place history read for settlement context. The1798 refusal is a repository reference only. No first-in-America claim, no universal disappearance of Indigenous people. Tribal-site retrieval timed out; no unsupported material added from it.
  2. Timbuctoo community archaeology: full Temple Anthropology Museum online exhibit reviewed, with2023 historical-society report and places/events page. No claimed full reading of excavation report or original1860 newspaper. Most artifacts date1910s–1940s; continuing residents explicitly retained.2025 dig treated as dated plan. No current household count or sensitive locations republished.
  3. Peter Mott House: National Register nomination architectural/historical sections read, compared with historical society Learn/About pages. Circumstantial/oral basis of Underground Railroad attribution stated. Census/deed details attributed to society’s research, not claimed independent original inspection.1990society/1992deed/2001museum differentiated.Regional connection: Pine Barrens outlier in society’s cited historian account.
  4. Gouldtown: downloaded Internet Archive OCR of1913 Steward book; read printedpp12–17. Interpretations of poverty/schooling attributed. Read Trinity AME1995 nomination; downloaded and visually inspectedPDFpage9 to confirm actual1934/1834 inconsistency (not justOCR). Historical narrative avoids romantic ancestry assertions and specifies broader SouthJersey connection.
  5. Rankokus:2007 committee reportPowhatan section read,2010 JasonNark article read,2019 AG announcement read. Lease area disagreement retained without exactacreage claim; land disposition not inferred from recognition settlement. No currentvisitor advice or federalrecognition claim.

Sources are linked within each entry. Narrative word attribution per source stays below200; primary1913book is publicdomain. Original prose, no quotation blocks or images copied into public entries. Caveats identify source access extents.