Daniel Nimham & the Wappinger Land Fight (1693–1778)

Original grant covers ~15,000 acres. Philipse reportedly 'cut down the tree marking the eastern border, rode all day and remarked a tree near the CT border' — expanding the claim to 205,000 acres.

Daniel Nimham's band — Mahican and Munsee speakers — survives across five colonies through basket weaving, broom crafting, and seasonal farm labor. He maintains annual pilgrimages to Mount Nimham in Putnam County.

Around 200 Wappinger relocate to the Stockbridge Mission in Massachusetts to protect their families while men serve in colonial forces.

The last Wappinger sachem challenges the fraudulently expanded patent in court. He loses; his attorney Samuel Munroe is arrested.

Nimham and three Mohican chiefs sail to England. The Lords of Trade acknowledge 'frauds and abuses' but restore nothing. The deed is snatched from Munroe's hands before he can prove fraud.

Abraham Nimham becomes captain of the Stockbridge Militia — Mohicans, Wappingers, Munsee. Both father and son serve under Washington and later with Lafayette.

The last Wappinger sachem and ~40 warriors die fighting for the Continental Army. 'He called out to his people to fly, that he himself was old, and would die there.'