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Wappinger territory (in center, "Wappinges"), from a copy of a 1685 reinterpretation of a 1656 map Total population Extinct as a tribe, [ 1 ] descendants joined the Stockbridge-Munsee [ 2 ] Regions with significant populations United States ( New

York ) Languages Eastern Algonquian languages , probably Munsee [ 1 ] Religion traditional tribal religion Related ethnic groups Other Algonquian peoples The Wappinger ( / ˈ w ɒ p ɪ n dʒ ər / WOP -in-jər ) [ 3 ] were 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 , but their territory included the

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 the Roeliff

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. Like the

Lenape, the Wappinger were highly decentralized as a people. They formed numerous loosely associated bands that had established geographic territories. [ 8 ] The Wequaesgeek , a Wappinger people living along the lower Hudson River near today's New

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

Indian tribes, questionable land sales, waves of diseases brought by the Europeans, and absorption into other tribes, their last sachem and a group of their heavily dwindled people were residing at the "prayer town" sanctuary of Stockbridge,

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 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 was left of a combined Mohican and

Wappinger community in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, left to join the Oneida people in Oneida County in western New York. There they were joined by the remnants of the Munsee , forming the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe. From that time, the Wappinger ceased

to have an independent name in history, and their people intermarried with others. Their descendants were subsequently relocated to a Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Shawano County, Wisconsin . The tribe operates a casino 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 raised defiantly. By one account, they shared

this totem with the Mohicans. [ 13 ] Name [ edit ] The origin of the name Wappinger is unknown. While the present-day spelling was used as early as 1643, [ 14 ] countless alternate phonetic spellings were also used by early European settlers well

into the late 19th century. Each linguistic group tended to transliterate Native American names according to their own languages. Among these spellings and terms are: Wappink, Wappings, Wappingers, Wappingoes, Wawpings, Pomptons, Wapings, Opings,

Opines, [ 15 ] Massaco, [ 16 ] Menunkatuck, [ 17 ] Naugatuck, [ 18 ] Nochpeem, [ 19 ] Wangunk [ 1 ] Wappans, Wappings, Wappinghs, [ 20 ] Wapanoos, Wappanoos, Wappinoo, Wappenos, Wappinoes, Wappinex, Wappinx, Wapingeis, Wabinga, Wabingies, Wapingoes,

Wapings, Wappinges, Wapinger and Wappenger. [ 14 ] Anthropologist Ives Goddard suggests the Munsee language -word wápinkw , used by the Lenape and meaning " opossum ", might be related to the name Wappinger. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] No evidence supports the

folk etymology of the name coming from a word meaning "easterner", [ citation needed ] as suggested by Edward Manning Ruttenber in 1906 [ 7 ] and John Reed Swanton in 1952. [ 23 ] Others suggest that Wappinger is anglicized from the Dutch word

wapendragers , meaning "weapon-bearers", alluding to the warring relationship between the Dutch and the Wappinger. [ 7 ] [ 24 ] Such reference would correspond to a first appearance in 1643. This was thirty-four years after the Dutch aboard Hudson's

Half Moon would have enquired what the people called themselves. The 1643 date reflects a period of great conflict with the Native people, including the preemptive Pavonia massacre by the Dutch, which precipitated Kieft's War . Language [ edit ] The

Wappinger spoke a dialect of the Munsee language , a Lenape tongue The Wappinger were most closely related to the Munsee , [ 25 ] a large subgroup of the Lenape people . All three were among the Eastern Algonquian -speaking subgroup of the Algonquian

peoples . They spoke using very similar Lenape languages , with the Wappinger dialect most closely related to the Munsee language . Their nearest allies were the Mohican to the north, [ when? ] the Montaukett to the southeast on Long Island, and

other Algonquin tribes to the east. Like the Lenape, the Wappinger were highly decentralized as a people. They formed approximately 18 loosely associated bands that had established geographic territories. [ 8 ] History [ edit ] The Wappinger had

summer and winter camps. They cultivated maize, beans, and various species of squash. They also hunted game, fished, collected shellfish, and gathered fruits, flowers, seeds, roots, and nuts. [ 26 ] By 1609, the Wappingers' earliest recorded European

contact, their settlements included camps along the major rivers between the Hudson and Housatonic , with larger villages located at the river mouths. [ 27 ] Settlements near fresh water and arable land could remain in one location for about 20

years, until the people moved to another place some miles away. Despite many references to their villages and other site types by early European explorers and settlers, few contact-period sites have been identified in southeastern New York. [ 28 ] [

29 ] 17th century [ edit ] The Wappinger first came into contact with Europeans in 1609, when Henry Hudson's expedition reached this territory on the Half Moon . [ 9 ] The total population of the Wappinger people at 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 his entries for September 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 skins loose, well dressed. They have yellow copper. 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 aboord, some in mantles of 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 on land againe, so wee rode very quite, but durst not trust them"

(Juet 1959:28). [ 29 ] Dutch navigator and colonist David Pieterz De Vries recorded another description of the Wappinger who resided around Fort Amsterdam: "The Indians about here are tolerably stout, have black hair with a long, lock which they let

hang on one side of the head. Their hair is shorn on the top of the head like a cock's comb. Their clothing is a coat of beaver skins over the body, with the fur inside in winter and outside in summer; they have, 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 coats of turkey feathers, which they know how to put 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 very foul and dirty; they sometimes paint their faces, and

draw a black ring around their eyes." [ 31 ] As the Dutch began to settle in the area, they pressured the Connecticut Wappinger to sell their lands and seek refuge with other Algonquian-speaking tribes. The western bands, however, stood their ground

amid rising tensions. [ 32 ] Following the Pavonia massacre by colonists, during Kieft's War in 1643, the remaining Wappinger bands united against the Dutch, attacking settlements throughout New Netherland . 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 the tribe. The Dutch 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, a devastating toll for the Wappinger. [ 8 ] The

Wappinger faced the Dutch again in the 1655 Peach War , a three-day engagement that left an estimated 100 settlers and 60 Wappinger dead, and strained relations further between the two groups. [ 34 ] After the war, the confederation broke apart, and

many of the surviving Wappinger left their native lands for the protection of neighboring tribes, settling in particular in the "prayer town" [ 35 ] Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the western part of the colony, where Natives had settled who had

converted to Christianity. 18th century [ edit ] In 1765, the remaining Wappinger in Dutchess County sued the Philipse family for control of the Philipse Patent land [ a ] but lost. In the aftermath the Philipses raised rents on the European-American

tenant farmers , sparking colonist riots across the region. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Daniel Nimham , last sachem of the Wappinger [ 38 ] In 1766 Daniel Nimham , last sachem of the Wappinger, was part of a delegation that traveled to London to petition the

British Crown for a restoration of land rights and better treatment by the American colonists . Britain had controlled former "Dutch" lands in New York since 1664. Nimham was then living in Stockbridge, but he was originally from the Wappinger

settlement of Wiccopee, New York , [ 10 ] in today's East Fishkill near the Hudson. [ 39 ] He argued before the royal Lords of Trade , who were generally sympathetic to his claims, but did not arrange for the Wappinger to regain any land after he

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

lieutenant-governor and the council...does carry with it the colour of great prejudice and partiality, and of an intention to intimidate these Indians from prosecuting their claims." Upon a second 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 precedent regarding 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 American government in its aftermath. It was not to be. Many Wappinger

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 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 Mohican and Wappinger community in Stockbridge, Massachusetts , left to

join the Oneida people in Oneida County in western New York. There they were joined by the remnants of the Munsee , forming the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe. [ 2 ] From that time the 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 low tract 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 to remove to Wisconsin . Today, members of the federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Nation reside mostly there

on a reservation, where they operate a casino. In 2010 the tribe was awarded two tiny parcels suitable for casinos in New York State in return for dropping larger land claims there. [ 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 a 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 eastern group at the mouth of the Connecticut River , in

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,

fortified village, called Navish, at the neck of Croton Point. [ 45 ] Massaco , along the Farmington River in Connecticut Nochpeem, in southern portions of present-day Dutchess and western [ 46 ] and northern Putnam counties, New York. Their tribal

fire at one point was in Kent . Paugussett , along the Housatonic River , present-day eastern Fairfield and western New Haven counties of Connecticut Podunk , east of the Connecticut River in eastern Hartford County, Connecticut Poquonock, western

present-day Hartford County, Connecticut Quinnipiac , in central New Haven County, Connecticut The Menunkatuck , were a sub-group of the Quinnipiac, living along the coast in present-day in Guilford in New Haven County, Connecticut. [ 47 ] Sicaog, in

present-day Hartford County, Connecticut Sintsink, also Sinsink, Sinck Sinck, and Sint Sinck, origin of the name of the penitentiary Sing Sing in Ossining , east of the Hudson River in present-day Westchester County, New York Siwanoy , southeast

coastal Bronx as far as Hell Gate , and interior southernmost Westchester County, New York, into southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut at the Five Mile River. Tankiteke, also "Pachami" and "Pachani", [ 48 ] central coastal and extreme western

Fairfield County, Connecticut, north to Danbury, north and west into northern Westchester County, New York, [ 49 ] eastern Putnam County, New York [ 50 ] and southeastern Dutchess County, New York [ 51 ] Tunxis , Farmington, in southwestern Hartford

County, Connecticut Wangunk , also sometimes called the "Mattabesset", they lived in the Mattabesset area in central Connecticut. Originally located around Hartford and Wethersfield, but were displaced by settlers and relocated to land around the

oxbow bend in the Connecticut River . [ 52 ] Wecquaesgeek (Wiechquaeskeck, Wickquasgeck, Weckquaesgeek), [ 53 ] southwestern Westchester County, New York, [ 54 ] originally centered on the mouth 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 and Pocantico Hills . [ 45 ] While Edward Manning Ruttenber

suggested in 1872 that there had been a Wappinger Confederacy, as did anthropologist James Mooney in 1910, Ives Goddard contests their view. He writes that no evidence supports this idea. [ 15 ] Legacy [ edit ] Hudson Valley portal The Wappinger are

the namesake of several areas in New York, including: Town of Wappinger Village of Wappingers Falls Wappinger Creek Wappinger Trail, Briarcliff Manor, New York Broadway in New York City also follows their ancient trail. [ 55 ] Notable Wappinger [

edit ] Abraham Nimham (1745–1778), captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War Daniel Nimham (1726–1778), sachem and member of the Stockbridge Militia in the American Revolutionary 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 all he 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 Ricky, Donald B. (1999). Indians of Maryland . St. Clair Shores, MI: Somerset. p.

295. ISBN 9780403098774 . ^ "Definition of WAPPINGER" . ^ a b Sultzman, Lee (1997). "Wappinger History" . Retrieved 14 January 2012 . ^ "The $24 Swindle", Nathaniel Benchley, American Heritage , 1959, 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's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: Their location

and the probable meaning of some of them" . Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association - the Annual Meeting, with Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members . 7th Annual. New York State 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, Robert S. "The Nimhams 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 Indian Massacre August, 1778" , Richard S. Walling,

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 b

Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed. (October 1912). Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico . Vol. Part 2 (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. pp. 913, 1167, 1169. ISBN 978-1-4286-4558-5 . Retrieved November

1, 2010 . {{ cite book }} : ISBN / Date incompatibility ( help ) ^ a b Goddard 1978 , p. 238. ^ Sebeok 1977 , p. 307. ^ Sebeok 1977 , p. 310. ^ Sebeok 1977 , p. 309. ^ Sebeok 1977 , p. 325. ^ Brodhead, John 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, Parsons & Co. ISBN 0-665-53988-6 . OL7024110M .

Retrieved October 31, 2010 . {{ cite book }} : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link ) ^ Pritchard, Evan T. (April 12, 2002). Native New Yorkers, the legacy of the Algonquin people of New York . Council Oaks Distribution. p. 28. ISBN

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.

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 author Hauptman (2017) ^ "The Wappinger

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).

"Short Historical and Journale Notes by David Pietersz, De Vries, 1665" . Annual Archæological Report . 1894– 95. Toronto: Warwick Bros. & Rutter: 75. ^ Pauls, Elizabeth Prine (2010). "Wappinger" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Encyclopædia Britannica

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

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 the American

Revolution . Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 85– 91. ISBN 0-8420-2748-3 . ^ Note that this is a romanticized modern depiction of an idealized "American Indian" of the Northeastern woods, and not an accurate representation of Nimham or his dress.

File:Stockbridge_1778.jpg This is contemporary rendering of a Stockbridge warrior in 1778; Nimham died as one at the Battle of Kingsbridge ^ Vaughan, Alden (2006). Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776 . Cambridge

University Press. p. 177. ISBN 0-521-86594-8 . ^ Smolenski, John. and Humphrey, Thomas J., New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 ISBN 9780812290004 ^ 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 the Indians were killed or desperately

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

revision by Petrus Schenk Junior, Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ ^ "1638- Colonists from Massachusetts Met the Quinnipiac Indians", The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut ^ Wappinger History , Lee Sultzman ^ Their presence 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 Angliæ , 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 the Pachami therefore

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 Kitchawank

of Cortlandt, whose chieftains agreed to the surrender of Pacham" [in 1644]. ^ Swanton 1952 :Tankitele mainly in Fairfield County, Connecticut, between Five Mile River and Fairfield, extending inland to Danbury and even into Putnam and Dutchess

Counties ^ Grant-Costa, Paul (2015). "The Wangunk Reservation" . Yale Indian Papers Project . Yale University . Retrieved Dec 15, 2015 . ^ James Hammond Trumbull (1881). Indian Names of Places, Etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With

Interpretations of Some of Them . Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. p. 81 . The name of the Indian band has variously been spelled Wiechquaeskeck, Wechquaesqueck, Weckquaesqueek, Wecquaesgeek, Weekquaesguk, Wickquasgeck,

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

the marsh, swamp or wet meadow", "place of the bark kettle", and "birch bark country". ^ Cohen, Doris Darlington. "The Weckquaesgeek" (PDF) . Ardsley Historical Society . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-23 . Retrieved 2016-08-19 . ^

Dunlap, David W. (1983-06-15). "Oldest Streets Are Protected as Landmark" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-03-09 . Bibliography [ edit ] Goddard, Ives (1978). "Delaware" . In Trigger, Bruce G. (ed.). Handbook of North American

Indians: Northeast, Vol. 15 . Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 213– 39. ISBN 978-0-1600-4575-2 . Hauptman, Laurence M. (2017). "The Road to Kingsbridge: Daniel Nimham and the Stockbridge Indian Company in the American Revolution".

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 Tribes

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