[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 historically known as the Wappingersf and acknow ledged as the head of the chieftaincies of the tribal organization of that name occupying the territory from Roeloff Jansen's kill *The deed recites the agreement be tween Van Curler, on the part of the company, " and the sachem named Wapy-quart or Tatteopan, chief of Sickenames river, and owner of the Fresh river of New Netherland, called in their tongue Connetticuck," for the purchase and sale of the lands named, " on condition that all tribes might freely, and without fear or danger," resort thither for purposes of trade. — 0"Callaghan,i, 150. The Sicke names, from whom the title was obtained, are described as " living between the Brownists (the Puritans) and the Hol landers," and that " all the tribes on the northern coast were tributary to them." Sequin denied the validity of their deed and sold to the English. The Dutch