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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) — source
…The Siwanoys, also known as "one of the tribes of the seacoast." This was one of the largest of the Wappinger subdivisions. They occupied the northern shore of the Sound from Norwalk twenty-four miles to the neighborhood of Hellgate…
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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) — source
…The Wappinger sub-tribes or chieftaincies of Westchester County, thanks chiefly to the careful researches of Bolton, are capable of tolerably exact geographical loca-tion and of detailed individual de-scription. Bolton is followed in the main by Huttenber, who…
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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) — source
…The entire country south of the Highlands, that is, Westchester County and Manhattan Island, was occupied by chieftaincies of the Wappinger division of the Mohicans. The Wappmgers also held do-minion over a large section of the Highlands, through their…
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886) — source
…Thomas Scharf (1886)] From Poughkeepsie down the Mohicans had on this (the east) side of the river the Wappinger family above and in the Highlands, the Kitchawank family along the Croton, the Sintsinck family within our present Ossining, and the…
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886) — source
…From Pough-keepsie southward, along the east side of the river, the Mohegan tribe had the Wappinger family above, and in the Highlands, the Kitchawank family along the Croton, the Sintsinck family within our present town of Ossining, and the…
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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) — source
…GENERAL INDEX 637 Wappinger Indians. 24. War of 1812, 539. Ward. Stephen, of Eastehester, 29S, 300, 305, 320, 442. Ward's House affair. The, 442. Ward's Tavern, 387. Washington, George, on the patriotic services of the Mohican Indians. 37…
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886) — source
…This chieftaincy was one of the largest of the Wappinger sub-divisions. They occupied the northern shore of the Sound from Norvvalk, twenty-four miles to the neighborhood of Hell Gate. A very large village of this chieftaincy was situated…
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