other similar disputes. [ 40 ] Nimham did not give up the cause. When the opportunity to serve with the Continental Army in the American Revolution arose, he chose it over the British in the hopes of receiving fairer treatment by the…

11 ] in the Bronx on August 30, 1778. It proved an irrevocable blow to the tribe, which had also been decimated by European diseases. [ 41 ] 19th century [ edit ] Following the American Revolutionary War, [ 11 ] what was left of a combined…

Romeyn, Agent (1986) [First Pub. 1855]. O'Callaghan, E.B. (ed.). London Documents: XVII-XXIV. 1707-1733 . Documents relative to the colonial history of the State of New York procured in Holland, England and France. Vol. 5. Albany, NY: Weed…

1, 2010 . ^ Swanton 1952 , p. 48. ^ Vasiliev, Ren (2004). From Abbotts to Zurich: New York State Placenames . Syracuse University Press. p. 233. ISBN 0-8156-0798-9 . ^ They are referred to as Munsee , one of the Lenape dialect groups, by…

York, 2005, p. 25, citing Murray and Osborn ^ Murray, Jean and Osborn, Penny Ann. "Indians Who Lived Here Centuries Ago". An Historic Biographical Profile of the Town of Kent, Putnam County, New York, Town of Kent Bicentennial Committee, 1976 ^ a…

just inland of the east bank of the Hudson River in today's Westchester County below the Hudson Highlands and extending westward over the Connecticut line is clearly labeled on the 1685 revision by Petrus Schenk Junior, Novi Belgii Novæque…

of a 1656 map by Nicolaes Visscher. ^ "A Montauk Cemetery at Easthampton, Long Island", Foster Harmon Saville, in Indian Notes and Monographs , Vol II, ed. F. W. Hodge, Museum of the American Indian, Haye Foundation, New York, 1919-20: "If…

American Indian . 18 (3). Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian: 34– 39. Sebeok, Thomas, ed. (1977). Native Languages of the Americas, Volume 2 . Springer. p. 380. ISBN 978-1-4757-1562-0 . Swanton, John Reed (1952). The Indian…

an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut . At the time of first contact in the 17th century they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York…

hearing before New York Provincial Governor Sir Henry Moore and the council, John Morin Scott argued that legal title to the land was only a secondary concern. He said that returning the land to the Indians would set an adverse…

Wappinger ceased to have an independent name in history, and their people intermarried with others. A few scattered remnants still remained in their original territory. As late as 1811, a small band was recorded as having a settlement on a…

12 ] Bands [ edit ] Wappinger bands appear east of the Hudson on this excerpt of Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ (Amsterdam, 1685) ("New Netherland and New England", and also parts of Virginia, a copy of a 1685 interpretation by Petrus Schenk Junior…

of the Saeck Kill in today's Yonkers , and ranging south into the western Bronx along the Hudson and Harlem rivers. [ 4 ] Had hunting grounds on the northern three-quarters of Manhattan Island , and ranged north to present-day Tarrytown…

War Notes [ edit ] ^ Then part of Dutchess County, but subsequently all of Putnam County, New York ^ This may well be the same place described as the settlement where David Nimham stayed during his annual pilgrimage up Mount Nimham to survey…

of the Colonial Hudson Valley 1667–1783", The Hudson River Valley Review , The Hudson River Valley Institute" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-13 . Retrieved 2019-02-10 . ^ a b c "Death In the Bronx, The Stockbridge…

there, and in 2010 was awarded two small parcels suitable for casinos in New York State in return for dropping larger land claims there. [ 12 ] The totem (or emblem) of the Wappinger was the "enchanted wolf", with the right paw…

Wars (on behalf of the English) and American Revolution (in support of the Colonists). He died with his son Abraham in a slaughter of the Stockbridge Militia at the Battle of Kingsbridge in 1778. [ 10 ] Following the war, [ 11 ] what…

that time has been estimated at between 3,000 [ 8 ] and 13,200 [ 30 ] [ 29 ] individuals. Robert Juet, an officer on the Half Moon , provides an account in his journal of some of the lower Hudson Valley Native Americans. In…

together. Their pride is to paint their faces strangely with red or black lead, so that they look like fiends. Some of the women are very well featured, having long countenances. Their hair hangs loose from their head; they are…

The Dutch responded with the March 1644 slaughter of between 500 and 700 members of Wappinger bands in the Pound Ridge Massacre , most burned alive in a surprise attack upon their sacred wintering ground. It was a severe blow to…

Historical Association: 40 (RA1–PA38) . Retrieved October 31, 2010 . ^ a b c d Trelease, Allen (1997). Indian Affairs in Colonial New York . U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-9431-X . ^ a b Swanton 1952 , p. 47. ^ a b "Grumet…

of New York from Colonial Times to the Present . CRC Press. pp. 9– 10. ISBN 0-415-97849-1 . ^ Hauptman (2017) ^ Kammen, Michael (1996). Colonial New York: A History . Oxford University Press. p. 302 . ISBN 0-19-510779-9 . ^ Steele…

Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York, Press of the A. V. Haight Co., Poughkeepsie, New York, 1912; pp. 62-79 [1] "In this fray the power of the tribe was forever broken. More than forty of…

They desire cloathes, and are very civill ... They have great store of maize or Indian wheate whereof they make good bread. The country is full of great and tall oakes. This day [September 5, 1609] many of the people came…

Vol. 11, Issue 1 ^ Boesch, Eugene, J., Native Americans of Putnam County Archived 2015-02-13 at the Wayback Machine ^ a b c Ruttenber, E.M. (1906). "Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson…

claimed to still be Wappinger territory; it is described as "an area west of today's Boyd's Dam , at the southwest base of the mountain". [ 43 ] [ 44 ] References [ edit ] ^ a b c d Sebeok 1977 , p. 380. ^ a b…

feathers, and some in skinnes of divers sorts of good furres. Some women also came to us with hempe. They had red copper tabacco pipes and other things of copper they did wear about their neckes. At night they went…

4 and 5, 1609, he says: "This day the people of the country came aboord of us, seeming very glad of our comming, and brought greene tabacco, and gave us of it for knives and beads. They goe in deere…

of land by the side of a brook, under a high hill in the northern part of the Town of Kent in Putnam County . [ 42 ] [ b ] Later in the early 19th century, the Stockbridge-Munsee in New York were forced…

also, sometimes a bear's hide, or a coat of the skins of wild cats, or hefspanen [probably raccoon], which is an animal most as hairy as a wild cat, and is also very good to eat. They also wear…