…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…

…of Weeckquaesqueeck, came of his own accord, with his brother, and asserted th:)t he was warned by a Wappinger Indian that the Esopus Indians intended to come down, within five or six days, with forty or fifty men to…

…The Wappinger Indians occupied the region of St. Anthony's nose and the Kittatenny mountains, (Highlands.

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…Further, ancestors of stalwart Wappinger holdouts still remain in the Northeast, highlighting that the Nimham legacy lives on. 61 Although cheated out of land, liberty, and justice, the saga of Chief Daniel Nimham and his people is now being brought…

…340, 461 Walloonsac River, 551 Walter the Doubter (Van Twiller) , 66, 511, 512, 513 Wanton Island, 488 Wappinger Indians, 16, 416 Wappinger's Creek, 91, 418 War for Independence, 22, 32, 112, 229, 313, 326, 380, 543 War with England…

…340, 461 Walloonsac River, 551 Walter the Doubter (Van Twiller) , 66, 511, 512, 513 Wanton Island, 488 Wappinger Indians, 16, 416 Wappinger's Creek, 91, 418 War for Independence, 22, 32, 112, 229, 313, 326, 380, 543 War with England…

…Mooney (in Hodge 1907-1910 2:913) thought that people belonging to Ruttenber’s Siwanoy chieftaincy were members of a Wappinger Confederacy uniting all Indian communities between the Hudson and Connecticut river valleys. Although both identifications are still widely accepted…

…Wombeeg sounds much like Wappinger, and both Pahsicogoweenog and Pawchequage resemble the aforementioned Poughquag in present-day Dutchess County (see Poughquag and Wappinger in New York in Part 1). Although a letter written on March 28, 1679 identifies him as…

…Several of the reserve’s residents, most of whose ancestors originally came from New England, can trace descent to Wappinger (see above in New York in Part 1) and other Munsee refugees from the Hudson River valley. Wappingers and other…

…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…

…Rondout came next, including the land between Fish- kill and Wappinger's creek. The Schuylers ruled where Poughkeepsie now is, and Falconer's purchase lay to the north. Above Falconer's was the Henry Beekman tract, that had Esopus as…

…The buyers were Francis Rombout and Gulian VerPlanck, and the date of the transfer of their property from the Wappinger Indians was August, 1683. "Gulian Ver- Planck died before the English patent was granted by Governor Dongan ; Stephanus Van Cortlandt…

…Daniel Ninham, a sachem, or chief, of the Wappinger Indians, was an 18th-century political leader and hero. Ninham defended his people’s homeland, even traveling to England to legally challenge the patent that granted the Wappingers’ territory to Dutch…

…Daniel Nimham (see below), and at least 15 other men belonging to the unit were killed in the engagement. Wappinger Indians Abraham and Daniel Nimham and several of their companions were direct descendants of ancestors who had lived in and…

…Many of the Indians who moved to the Shekomeko mission traced descent to Esopus and Wappinger forebears (see above). Most joined the Moravian missionaries, who had been living two miles away in Pine Plains (see above), in new homes in…

…A substantial portion of the Indian population of western Connecticut, including people who spoke Wampano (Rudes 1997), others who spoke Wappinger (see above in New York in Part 1), and many who spoke Quiripi, Mohegan-Pequot, or Narragansett ultimately moved…

…Those trying to return to their homes after the war most closely affiliated themselves with the Wappinger community led by members of the Nimham family (see below). Nearly all of these people ultimately joined Wappingers who moved between the Indian…

…Others include co-occurrences of the group and place names Ramapo and Wappinger (the latter variously identified as Waping, Oping, and Pompton in New Jersey) in both places also known as residences of prominent sachems such as Nowenock, Taphow, and…

…The name initially appeared in the August 8, 1683, Indian deed to land between present-day Fishkill and Wappinger creeks (see below) as a boundary point on “the south side of a creek called the Fresh Kill, and by the…

…From there, the stream flows south to WAPPINGER (Dutchess County). Whritenour thinks that Wap- its junction with Webatuck Creek (see below) to form the Tenmile 32 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet River a mile or so above Dover Plains. The…

…The name initially appeared in the August 8, 1683, Indian deed to land between present-day Fishkill and Wappinger creeks (see below) as a boundary point on “the south side of a creek called the Fresh Kill, and by the…

…Whritenour thinks the earliest known variant of the word recorded in New York, Pahsicogoweenog, sounds like a Munsee word, *pasiikaaxkweenaxk, “fence of boards.” The latter name appeared as a reference to a locale called “Wombeeg [see Wappinger below] at a…

…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…

…The Kitchawanc tribe, part of the Wappinger Confederacy of the Algonquin Nation, was native to the area and was responsible for several of the place names known in Croton-on-Hudson today. The Kitchawanc called the marsh separating Croton Point…

…Many of the Indians who moved to the Shekomeko mission traced descent to Esopus and Wappinger forebears (see above). Most joined the Moravian missionaries, who had been living two miles away in Pine Plains (see above), in new homes in…