Indians" . Mount Gulian Historic Site . Archived from the original on August 18, 2019 . Retrieved 15 May 2023 . ^ MacCracken 1956: 266 ^ Funk 1976 ^ a b c Eugene J. Boesch, Native Americans of Putnam County ^ Cook 1976:74 ^ Boyle, David (1896).

wounded." ^ Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York, Press of the A. V. Haight Co., Poughkeepsie, New York, 1912 ^ "Mt. Nimham: The Ridge of Patriots", Thomas F. Maxon, Rangerville Press, Kent, New 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 b "Levine, David.

"Discover the Hudson Valley's Tribal History", Hudson Valley Magazine , June 24, 2016" . Archived from the original on May 24, 2017 . Retrieved October 23, 2019 . ^ Their presence just inland of the Hudson Highlands is clearly labeled on the 1685

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 the Pachami therefore

Wickquasgek, Wiequaeskeek, Wiequashook, and Wiquaeskec. The spelling given here is one widely used for the original name of Broadway in lower Manhattan: "The Wickquasgeck Trail". The meaning of the name, however spelled, has been given as "the end of

1656 map by Nicolaes Visscher I ) The suggested bands of the Wappinger, headed by sachems , have been described as including: Wappinger (proper), lived on the east side of the Hudson River in present-day Dutchess County , New York Hammonasset , an

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York City, were among the first to be recorded encountering European adventurers and traders when Henry Hudson's Half Moon appeared in 1609. [ 9 ] Long after their original settlements had been decimated by wars with the colonists, wars with other

returned to North America. The Lords of Trade reported that there was sufficient cause to investigate "frauds and abuses of Indian lands...complained of in the American colonies, and in this colony in particular." And that, "the conduct of the

present-day Middlesex County , Connecticut Kitchawank, lived in northern Westchester County , New York in the area of Croton-on-Hudson, New York , site of the oldest oyster-shell middens found on the North Atlantic Coast. There they built a large,

978-1-57178-107-9 . Retrieved November 1, 2010 . ^ Bright, William (November 30, 2007). Native American placenames of the United States . University of Oklahoma Press. p. 548. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4 . Retrieved November 1, 2010 . ^ Swanton 1952 , p.

Online . Retrieved October 31, 2010 . ^ Axelrod, Alan (2008). Profiles in Folly . Sterling Publishing Company. pp. 229–236 . ISBN 978-1-4027-4768-7 . ^ Reitano, Joanne R. (2006). The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to

and the Mohawk , their trading partner and powerful member of the Iroquois Nation in central and western New York, defeated the Wappinger by 1645. [ 33 ] Together, the allies killed more than 1500 Wappinger during the two years of the war…

served in the Stockbridge Militia during the American Revolution . Nimham, his son and heir Abraham, and some forty warriors were killed or mortally wounded in the Battle of Kingsbridge [ 11 ] in the Bronx on August 30, 1778. It proved an…

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 to remove to Wisconsin . Today, members of the federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Nation reside mostly…

americanrevolution.org ^ a b Gale Courey Toensing, "Seneca Upset Over N.Y. Casino Agreement" , Indian Country Today , 26 January 2011 ^ Ruttenber, E.M. (1872). History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River . Albany, NY: J. Munsell. p. 50. ^ a…

were part of the Tankiteke they were probably that portion of the group which occupied the wild interior country around Ridgefield, Danbury, North Salem, and Carmel, and thus were in close contact with the Nochpeem of Putnam county and the…

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…

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 , but their territory…

east bank of the Hudson in what became both Putnam and Westchester counties south to the western Bronx [ 4 ] and northern Manhattan Island . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] To the east they reached to the Connecticut River Valley , [ 1 ] and to the north…

Jansen Kill in southernmost Columbia County, New York , marked the end of their territory. [ 7 ] Their nearest allies were the Mohican to the north, the Montaukett to the southeast on Long Island , and the other Algonquin tribes to the east…

Massachusetts . A stalwart spokesman for Native American concerns and valiant soldier, Daniel Nimham had traveled to Great Britain in the 1760s to argue for a return of tribal lands, and served in both the French and Indian Wars (on behalf…

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 was left of a combined…

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 a 1656 map by Nicolaes Visscher I ) The suggested bands…

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, Parsons & Co. ISBN 0-665-53988…

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, Ian K. (2000). The Human Tradition in…

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 very foul and dirty; they sometimes paint…

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 precedent regarding other similar disputes. [ 40 ] Nimham did…

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 Angliæ , of…