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…

[Historical Map] Page from Ruttenber 1872 describing Kitchawank and Wappinger tribes

…19 The 1765 Land Hearing for the Wappinger The increasing tensions motivated the New York Common Council in 1765 to finally grant a hearing to the Wappinger and aggrieved tenants. With the assistance of attorney and Wappinger tenant Samuel Munroe…

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…

…Spalding if the Council had not given the Wappinger a fair trial. Receiving no official ruling, Spalding, Nimham and the Wappinger returned home. Not long after, Nimham saw the Council’s verdict published in the local press and in at…

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 Wappinger Response and a Second 1767 Land Hearing The Wappinger, although allied with the insurgent tenants, interestingly steered clear of the violent uprisings. Likely aware that violent measures would backfire, the Natives chose to navigate their quarrel through the…

…While the names Wappinger and Waping occur in the Great Valley on both sides of the Hudson River, no source dating to colonial times mentions a Wappinger confederacy dominated by a Wappinger chieftaincy as suggested by Ruttenber (1872:77-85…

[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…

…The new Robinson leases were far less desirable than those the tenants had with the Wappinger. In a shrewd attempt to garner widespread tenant support and counter the harsh terms of Robinson’s and Morris’s leases, Nimham, representing the…

…Spalding if the Council had not given the Wappinger a fair trial. Receiving no official ruling, Spalding, Nimham and the Wappinger returned home. Not long after, Nimham saw the Council’s verdict published in the local press and in at…

…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…

…His interpretation led the New York Common Council in 1765 to reject the Wappinger’s petition. Adding insult to injury, two days later, New York colonial authorities arrested the Wappinger’s attorney, Samuel Munroe on seemingly bogus charges of “Champerty…

…It was later noted as the Wappinger Indian settlement of Wikopy tucked into a hollow in the Highlands in present-day Dutchess County. Johannes Swartwout was the first colonist to begin work on a farmstead near the place where Wiccopee…

[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…

[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…

…The Siwanoys, also known as "one of the tribes of the seacoast." This was one of the largest of the Wappinger subdivisions. They occupied the northern shore of the Sound from Norwalk twenty-four miles to the neighborhood of Hellgate…

…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…

…The Wappinger sub-tribes or chieftaincies of Westchester County, thanks chiefly to the careful researches of Bolton, are capable of tolerably exact geographical loca-tion and of detailed individual de-scription. Bolton is followed in the main by Huttenber, who…

…Chief Daniel Nimham and the Wappinger Fight for Homeland Researched and written by Peter Cutul, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author. They do not purport to reflect…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…The entire country south of the Highlands, that is, Westchester County and Manhattan Island, was occupied by chieftaincies of the Wappinger division of the Mohicans. The Wappmgers also held do-minion over a large section of the Highlands, through their…

…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.

…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…

…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…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] From Poughkeepsie down the Mohicans had on this (the east) side of the river the Wappinger family above and in the Highlands, the Kitchawank family along the Croton, the Sintsinck family within our present Ossining, and the…

…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…