The Lenapes , also called Delawares by the emigrants, are Amerindian people, organized as clans, originating in bank of the river of Delaware, Hudson and of Long Island Sound.

Lenapes, at least those of the New Jersey had a curious matrimonial practice: an young man could marry only one old woman and an young girl that a veillard. One includes/understands all the economic interest of this practice which makes it possible to the old people to ensure their old days while transmitting their experiment to the following generations.

On the Atlantic coast, towards Sandy Hook, for example, these people practiced the collecting with large scales of the oysters which grow there spontaneously. These oysters were fume the summer to be consumed the winter.