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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
| Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) | 50 | 5,568 | Original → |
Passages
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The proposition, however, is that both of the results stated were in accordance with the terms of the peace which the English government negotiated, and not of prior Iroquois diplomacy.
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] powder and lead in proportion." The record continues : " Four hundred armed men knew how to make use of their advantage, especially against their enemies, dwelling along the river of Canada, against whom they have no…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Smith's assertion that it was prior to European occupation, is generally denied j while Brodhead's assumption that it was in 1617,' is without foundation in contemporaneous or subsequent facts. Nor could subjugation …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] cas solicited the aid of the Mohawks^ and with them continued the struggle. The transition of the province from the Dutch to the English found the contest undecided, and not only so but the Mohawks expressly asking t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] But whatever the date, the Minnisinks, a north-western family of the Minsis, as well as the Tappans, were under the obligations of subjugation in 1680, for Paxinosa or Paxowan as he was sometimes called, sachem of th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2 Colonial History, iv, 98. Esopus in 1 660. The treaty which was 3 The terms Minquas, Minsis, Monseys, concluded by the one was concluded by and Munsies are convertible. The Min-the other. -quas who sold lands on th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] a crescent, called KockVreach. Next is Hoge-reach; and then comes Vossen-reach, which extends to Klinkersberg. This is succeeded by Fisher's-reach, where on the east side of the river, dwell a nation of savages named…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] On the south side of Wappinger's kill he locates three villages under the general name of Waoranecks, and |ibove them and occupying both sides of the river south of the " Groote Esopus R.," he places the Wappingers. …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Dans-Kammer point. water, etc., which were and still are 2 "There being no previous survey to the known to very few Christians. Some-grants, their boundaries are expressed with times the grant is of the land that b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Merrlcks, Merokes, or Merikokes, as they have been denominated, who claimed all the territory south of the middle of the island, from Near Rockaway to the west line of Oyster bay. Their principal village was the …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] any particular Indian, I believe is beyond hundreds of old surveys the hills, streams, human skill, so as to make it evident to • etc., by which the tracts were bounded any indifferent man." — Golden, Document-are as…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Warrawakin sachem, 1655; Gil, in 1675. 8th. The Corchattgs owned the remainder of the territory from Wading river to Oyster ponds, and were spread upon the north shore of Peconic bay, and upon the necks adjoining the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The bounds of their tract were from Connectquut river on the east to the line of Oyster bay on the west, and from the South bay to the middle of the island. They were so much reduced by wars and disease that when set…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] At the time of the discovery they were a part of or under tribute to the Mahlcans. Wyandance, their sachem, was also the grand sachem of Paumanacke, or Sewan-hackey, as the island was called. Nearly all the deeds for…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In the winter of 1658, the small pox destroyed more than half the clan, while Wyandance lost his life by poison secretly adminis tered. The remainder, both to escape the fatal malady, and the danger of invasion in th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Long Island ' Drake's that was heated by building fires on it, Book of the Indiana and walked several times over it singing Lion Gardiner, in his Notes on East his death song, but his feet being burned Hampton, relat…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] not on Manhattan Island, but, as appears by the statements of the Long Island Indians, this care and protection was in the territory and on the island of the latter. Under this explanation there is no contradiction i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their chiefs were Rechgawac, after whom they appear to have been called, Fecquesmeck, and Peckauniens. Their first sachem known to the Dutch, was Tackarew, in 1639. In 1682, the names of Goharis, Teattanqueer and Wea…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] we discharged six muskets, and killed with their muskets, killed three or four two or three of them. Then above an more of them. So they went their hundred of them came to a point of land way." — Hudson's Journal. to…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Another village was located between the Sing-Sing creek and the Kitchawonck, or Croton river, and was called Kestaubuinck. Their lands are described in a deed to Frederick Phillipse, August 24, 1685, and were include…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their lands were 80 THE INDIAN TRIBES principally included in the manor of Cortlandt, from which was subsequently erected the towns of Cortlandt, Yorktown, Somers, North Salem and Lewisborough. 5th. The Tankitekes^ T…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The residence of Canopus is said to have been on a hill in the south-east part of 1 Brodhead locates this chieftaincy at a Wassenaar locates here the Pachany j Haverstraw, but his authorities are not at and Brodhead,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 81 the town of Putnam Valley, and was included in the deeds for the manor of Cortlandt. The remainder of their lands passed into the hands of Adolph Phillipse, under a title which was the subject of controversy for y…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] present name from the fact that a large it has no official record. The story is body of Indians were there surprised and mythical. cut to pieces by the Huguenots of New 82 THE INDUN TRIBES Chester they had a castle u…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The occurrence served to convince the Dutch that in offending against the chiefs in their immediate vicinity, they were also offending those of whose existence they had no previous knowledge.2 Shanasock-
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] enlarged family of Wappingers, perhaps the original head of the tribe from whence its conquests were pushed over the southern part of the peninsula.4 9th. The Wappingers. North of the Highlands was the chieftaincy hi…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] doubt concerning what is meant by the Highland Indians amongst us. The Wappingers and TVickeskeck, etc., have always been reckoned so." It is entirely possible that the tribal name was Weque-hachke, or Wickeskeck, or…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Of their possessions on the Hudson there is but one perfect transfer title on record, that being for the lands which were included in the Rombout patent, in which u Sackeraghkigh, for himself and in the name of Megri…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The totem of the Wappingers as well as that of the Esopus clans, was the Wolf, as already stated, while below the Highlands came the Turkey of the 1 " Daniel Nimham, a native Indian have always had a sachem or king w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] general divisions are indicated by the terms : I. The Mahicans, as applied to that portion occupying the valley of the Hudson and the Housatonic; 2. The Soquatucks, as applied to those east of the Green Mountains; 3.…