…The Croton-on-Hudson Wappinger Band The Kitchawank were a band of the Wappinger Confederation, an Eastern Algonquian people who inhabited what is now southern New York and western Connecticut. They were inhabitants of northern Westchester County, New York, specifically…

…The Kitchawank were the Wappinger band most closely associated with the Croton area. They signed the 1645 peace treaty ending Kieft's War, and their shell middens at Croton Point date back 7,000 years. Wecquaesgeek: Southwestern Westchester/western Bronx…

…The Kitchawank were among the signatory tribes. A commemorative plaque at Croton Point Park marks the treaty site. CONSEQUENCES Approximately 1,600 Indigenous people were killed compared to fewer than 100 Dutch. The Wappinger confederation was shattered. Kieft was recalled…

…The land acquisition involved purchases from the Kitchawank (a Lenape Wappinger tribe) and the Rumachenanck people. ## Succession and Division Following Stephanus's death in 1700 and his wife Geertruy's in 1723, the estate was divided equally among ten surviving…