Home / Search

15 results for "Wappinger"

Filter: All · 🏹 Indigenous Peoples & Archaeology · 📜 Colonial & Dutch Records · 📖 Westchester County Histories · 🏘️ Croton Local History · 🏛️ Government Documents
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) — source
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] Wallboght, 135 Wall street, 52 Walton avenue, 108 Wampage, 124 Wandowenock, 175 Wappinger, 40, 92 Ward point, 194, 195, 233 Warren street (Kings), 137, 139 Washington bridge, 107, 226 Washington Heights, 75, 77 Washington square, 60…
39 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…What is now known as Wappinger's creek, while appropri ately preserving the name of its aboriginal owners, was not so called by them, but by the very beautiful name, Mawenawasigh. The precise meaning of the phrase cannot be given…
248 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
[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…
110 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] On the 2Qth, the Wappinger again appeared and after satisfying himself that ' of the Indians in the hands of the Dutch none had died, said that six of the captives held by the Indians were then…
136 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…On Van der Donck's map three of their villages or castles are located on the south side of the Mawenawasigh, 01 Great Wappinger's kill, which now bears their name. North of that stream they appear to have been…
161 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…Subsequently, Nimham, the Wappinger king, in company with chiefs from the Mahicans of Connecticut, visited England and received favorable hearing. Returning to America their claims were thrown into the courts and were there overtaken by the Revolution. Still clinging to…
192 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…231; claim lands in Dutchess county, 252 j aid Americans in war of Revolution, 2865 signification of name, 370 Wappinger's creek, aboriginal name of, 84, 3?o Warrawakin, sachem of Seatalcats, 74 Warranawonkongs, location of, 71, 94; wars with…
207 words
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) — source
…Manhattan, and found its way into the pouches of traders up the Hudson, to the distant homes of the Wappinger and the Mohawk, or along the Sound shore to the villages of the Siwanoy and the Pequot. In addition to…
210 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…Wappenos." While all the eastern Indians were called Wap-penos, x or Wapenacki, the reference, in this instance, is clearly specific, not general, and evidently refers to the Wappinoo or Wappinger branch of the Mahicans, who, whatever may have tainly.
209 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…On the yth, two children were brought in by a Wappinger chief, who accompanied them as a friend and' who promised to bring in a captive woman whom he had purchased. This woman he brought in on the 1 3th…
219 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…in the Rombout patent, in which u Sackeraghkigh, for himself and in the name of Megriesken, sachem of the Wappinger Indians," and other Indians therein named as grantors, conveyed the tract beginning on the south side of the Matteawan creek…
223 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…location of the, 74 Mattano, sachem of Raritans, 90 Mauwehu, sachem of Schaticooks of Kent, Connecticut, 195 Mayane, a Wappinger chief, 82, 113 Medicines, 27 Mechkentowoons, a Mahican chieftaincy, 71, 85, 96 Megriesken, sachem of Wappingers, 84 Merncks, location of…
230 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…A tract of meadow land "lying slanting to the Dancing Chamber," north of Wappinger's creek, had for 'its eastern boundary a creek called Wynogkee. Schoolcraft defines Pough keepsie. as signifying safe harbor, from apokeepsing; but the interpretation is open…
251 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…Stuyvesant sent him a Wappinger and an Esopus Indian in exchange, and also some ammunition, of which he promised a further supply when other prisoners should be brought in. Pos, accompanied by two influential citizens, con veyed this message, and…
246 words
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) — source
…To aid him, Couwenhoven employed a Wappinger sachem to visit them, " but when he had been two or three days with them in their new fort, two Mohawks and one Minst came there with sewan and a long message, which…
269 words