that

be

had

to them by sending up a sloop, indicating that in the summer at In the least they had a representative position on the Hudson. treaty of 1745, Sessekemick represented

them and appears to

have acted under the counsel of Oritany.

In the sale of Staten

island, Taghkospemo

1 '*

I,

appeared

Oratum, am sagamore, and sole

as

their

ing on the main land over against the Deed to Edward Isle of Manhattans."

March

is

der Cappellen, 1659.

proprietor of Hackingsack, lying and be-

Cove, Oct. 5, 1664. Staten island, by the Indians called Eghquaous, appears to have been owned in partnership by the Raritans, the HackDeed to Van insacks and the Tappans.

sachem, and there

Deed

to

25,

Hans Diderick and others, 1676.

Oritany,

who was

then living, had no part in this deed. 4 " Within the first reach, on the western bank of the river, where the land is low, there dwells a nation of savages, named Tappans." De Laet y Nc<w York Hist. Soc. Co//., idseries,!, 298.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

much earlier date. Their which Tappan bay, probably bounded their on the Hudson. possessions North of the Tappans and inhabiting 6th. The Haverstraw s. evidence that his sachemship had

name

survives in

a territory, the westward boundaries of which are not clearly defined, were the Haverstraws, so called by the Dutch, but

whose aboriginal name appears to have been lost. 2 They took some part in the early wars, but would seem to have been absorbed by the Tappans after the supremacy of the English. Stony point was the northern limit of their territory, as indi cated by the deed to Governor in the