History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 193
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] APPENDIX. 329 congregation at Shekomeko, and discharged its duties with credit. He subsequently accepted the chieftaincy of the Mahi-cans of the Delaware country and represented them in the con ferences with Johnson, and also with the governor of Pennsyl vania. He died in 1762, " much respected on account of his wisdom and grave deportment." The Wappingers were not without their hero in the person of DANIEL NIMHAM, who, in 1765, is described as "a native Indian and acknowledged sachem or king of a certain tribe of Indians known and called by the name of Wappingers" He appears to have taken up his residence at Westenhuck in 1746, and to have subsequently taken part in the war of that period and also of that of 1754. The proceedings to which he was a party for the recovery of the lands of his people, would occupy a volume.