He became notorious among supporters and enemies alike as the energetic and assertive defender of his people's land rights... Betrayed and abandoned by Crown officials appointed to look after his interests, he subsequently took common cause with colonists struggling to free themselves from royal authority." 5

Nimham's Fight for His People and Their Homeland In 1687, two Dutch traders, Jan Roelof Sybrandt and Lambert Dorland purchased a license from New York Governor Benjamin Fletcher for 15,000 acres along the eastern Hudson River shore of today's

Laurence M. Hauptman, "The Road to Kingsbridge: Daniel Nimham and the Stockbridge Indian Company in the American Revolution," American Indian Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall 2017). Thomas F. Maxon, Mount Nimham: The Ridge of Patriots, Historical Timeline (New York: Thomas Maxon, 2009), 22. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_Brett_Homestead Thomas F. Maxon, Mount Nimham: The Ridge of Patriots, Historical Timeline ( New York: Thomas Maxon, 2009), 20. Robert S. Grumet, The Nimhams of the Colonial Hudson Valley, 1667- 1783, Hudson Valley Regional Review (September 1992), 9.2: 80-99

Putnam County, with the stipulation that an Indian deed be acquired by June 2, 1688 and letters patent by July 1, 1688. 6 The property was described as a strip of land along the Hudson shore in the Highland, "beginning at the north side of a hill called Anthony's Nose at a marked Red Seader Tree, and along said River Northerly to the Land belonging to Stephanus Van Cortlandt and the Heirs of Francis Rhombout and G. Verplanck, and Eastwards in the Woods as far along the said Lands of Stephanus Cortland and Co. aforesaid to a marked tree..." 7