The Wappinger were Eastern Algonquian, Munsee-speaking Native Americans from southern New York and western Connecticut. Their primary base was Dutchess County, NY, extending south to include parts of Putnam, Westchester counties, the western Bronx, and northern Manhattan Island. Eastward…

…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…

Daniel Nimham (also spelled Ninham), born around 1726, served as the final sachem of the Wappinger people. He was described as "the most prominent Native American of his time in the lower Hudson Valley." His father, known as "One Shake…

Kieft's War (1643-1645), also called the Wappinger War, was a conflict between Dutch colonial New Netherland and regional Indigenous peoples including the Wappinger, Lenape, and other Algonquian tribes in present-day New York and New Jersey. Willem Kieft…

…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…

…The Kitchawanc tribe, part of the Wappinger Confederacy, signed a peace treaty with Dutch settlers at Croton Point in 1645. Stephanus van Cortlandt began acquiring land in 1677 to build a manor, which received a royal patent in 1697 as…