…Heckewelder (1834:358) thought that Quakake sounded like the Delaware Indian POCONO (Carbon, Monroe, and Wayne counties). Heckewelder words cuwékeek or kwékêêk, “piney lands.” Quakake Creek, a name (1834:358) wrote that Pocono reminded him of the Delaware Indian that…

…Penn proprietary agents during a treaty meeting at Fort Stanwix held on November 5, 1769. Local traditions indicate that those who originally put Cush on the map evidently regarded it as a Delaware Indian word for bear. The form of…

…Modern-day Perkasie has long been regarded as the location of an Indian town where Penn met to sign a treaty with Delaware chiefs. Local historians cite a statement made during the 1740s by Delaware leader Sassoonan (also called Allumapies…

…after fighting broke out in western Pennsylvania that led to the last French and Indian War. The Delaware leader subsequently played a prominent part in treaty conferences mostly held at Easton between 1757 and 1762 that restored peace and adjudicated…

…Massapequa has been on maps since Mechoswodt, the sachem of Marossepinck, signed the January 15, 1639, treaty deed that granted the Dutch West India Company the sole right to purchase Indian land in western Long Island (Gehring 1980:9). Massapequa…

…Heckewelder (1834:375) thought that the name that he spelled Pequonock came from a Delaware Indian word, pekhánne, “dark river.” Whritenour thinks that Pequannock sounds more like a Munsee word, *pohkawahneek, “a creek between two hills.” Also occurring as Poquonnock…

…Indian Confederacy at Fallen Timbers (see in Ohio in Part 2 below) on August 24, 1794. Following the battle, Wayne forced the Delawares and their coalition partners to give up much of their land in Ohio at the Treaty of…

…The Village of Munsey Park was word for a “rich or good spot within that which is bad or barren”) named for its non-Indian developer. was actually a mostly Munsee Delaware Indian town in a part of Pennsylvania’s…

…was drawn from a list of Indian signatories to the November 22, 1683, Indian deed to the area published in

…in an Indian deed to land in the area dated June 8, 1696 (Ulster County Records, Deed Book CC:145). A group of native people from the area later identified themselves as Nappaner Indians at a Nicolls Treaty renewal meeting…

…an Indian plantation in good fence, and well improved, rais[ing] wheat and horses” on what he called the “Wallakill River” three miles from the settlement of Goshen. Three years later, Esopus sachems (see below) attending a Nicolls Treaty renewal…

…A treaty was made by Stuyvesant with the remnant of the tribe, by the terms of which they abandoned the river Digitized by Microsoft® 452 The Hudson River settlements to the Dutch, retaining permission to trade at Rondout "provided but…

…After a day of hard fighting, according to Indian methods, the Mohe- gans succeeded in driving their enemies from the field. The Mohawks then retreated to another island, where they built fires and pretended to encamp. But, having spread their…

…writer — sat and discussed the history of Kingston; its first and second Indian wars, 1659 and 1661, and the burning of the fort, 1663 ; Stuyvesant's treaty of peace, 1661, at which period the wily savages ceded him the land…

…Esopus leaders attending a Nicolls Treaty renewal meeting 20 years later in August 18, 1722 (Special Collections, Alexander Library, Rutgers University: Philhower Collection), complained that they had not been paid for land at a place they identified as Ashewagkomek near…

named for the Indian chief of the Kitchawanc tribe, Kenoten, which means "wild wind." A plaque on a rock at Croton Point Park marks the spot where a peace treaty was signed in 1645 between the Dutch and the Kitchawanc…

…Croton itself is believed to be named for the Indian chief of the Kitchawanc tribe, Kenoten, which means "wild wind." A plaque on a rock at Croton Point Park marks the spot where a peace treaty was signed in 1645…

…Croton itself is believed to be named for the Indian chief of the Kitchawanc tribe, Kenoten, which means "wild wind." A plaque on a rock at Croton Point Park marks the spot where a peace treaty was signed in 1645…