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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their lands were 80 THE INDIAN TRIBES principally included in the manor of Cortlandt, from which was subsequently erected the towns of Cortlandt, Yorktown, Somers, North Salem and Lewisborough. 5th. The Tankitekes^ T…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The residence of Canopus is said to have been on a hill in the south-east part of 1 Brodhead locates this chieftaincy at a Wassenaar locates here the Pachany j Haverstraw, but his authorities are not at and Brodhead,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 81 the town of Putnam Valley, and was included in the deeds for the manor of Cortlandt. The remainder of their lands passed into the hands of Adolph Phillipse, under a title which was the subject of controversy for y…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] present name from the fact that a large it has no official record. The story is body of Indians were there surprised and mythical. cut to pieces by the Huguenots of New 82 THE INDUN TRIBES Chester they had a castle u…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The occurrence served to convince the Dutch that in offending against the chiefs in their immediate vicinity, they were also offending those of whose existence they had no previous knowledge.2 Shanasock-
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] enlarged family of Wappingers, perhaps the original head of the tribe from whence its conquests were pushed over the southern part of the peninsula.4 9th. The Wappingers. North of the Highlands was the chieftaincy hi…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] doubt concerning what is meant by the Highland Indians amongst us. The Wappingers and TVickeskeck, etc., have always been reckoned so." It is entirely possible that the tribal name was Weque-hachke, or Wickeskeck, or…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Of their possessions on the Hudson there is but one perfect transfer title on record, that being for the lands which were included in the Rombout patent, in which u Sackeraghkigh, for himself and in the name of Megri…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The totem of the Wappingers as well as that of the Esopus clans, was the Wolf, as already stated, while below the Highlands came the Turkey of the 1 " Daniel Nimham, a native Indian have always had a sachem or king w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] general divisions are indicated by the terms : I. The Mahicans, as applied to that portion occupying the valley of the Hudson and the Housatonic; 2. The Soquatucks, as applied to those east of the Green Mountains; 3.…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] name of Wayaughtanock." In the pro-2 The name is local, and is applied, in ceedings of a convention held at Albany a petition by William Caldwell and others in 1689, the name is applied to the in 1702, to a " tract o…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] belonging to the Indian grantors, and, with his previous pur chases, became the proprietor of a tract of country twenty-four miles long, and forty-eight miles broad, containing, by estima tion, over seven hundred Tho…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Sales east of the Taghkanick mountains, in the state of Connecticut, are recorded, and among others that of a tract to Johannes Diksman and Lawrence Knickerbacker, now in the town of Salisbury, the grantors being Kon…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 89 with the new chief." In 1751, he writes at Gnadenhutten, in Pennsylvania : " Two deputies were likewise sent to the great council of the Mahikan nation at Westenhuck, with which they appeared mu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Tl\e fact that Westenhuck was the point selected for missionary labor, by the Societyfor the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, is additional proof of its importance, though the extremities of the nation wit…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] for knives, beads and articles of clothing. It was at their hands, also, that John Coleman, one of Hudson's crew, lost his life 1 Abraham, whose Indian name was Pennsylvania, from whence he returned Schabash, was one…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the one from the other. This district Indians" named in the text were, but it was abandoned by the natives for two is not an improbable supposition that they reasons; the first and principal is, that were Shawanoes. …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their territory extended from the vicinity of Hackinsack river to the Highlands.4 De Vries pur chased lands from them in 1640, which he describes as "a beautiful valley under the mountains, of about five hundred acre…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 12 92 THE INDIAN TRIBES evidence that his sachemship had much earlier date. Their name survives in Tappan bay, which probably bounded their possessions on the Hudson. 6th. The Haverstraw s. North of the Tappans and i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] By deed to Stephen Van Cort-landt in 1683, it would appear that they had either moved fur ther north or had more northern territory, the tract conveyed being described as lying opposite Anthony's nose, from the u sou…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Van der Donck places them in the Highlands on the east side of the river and south of Matteawan creek, and De Laet on the west side as occupants of the Esopus country.1 Wassenaar agrees with De Laet in locating them …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Were not De Laet's location sufficiently clear, there are other reasons for assuming that the " Murderer's 1 " This reach (the Fisher's) extends and the subsequent signatures classed as to another narrow pass, where,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] name by which they were last designated was that of the creek now called " Murderer's; " their first name disappears from the early records almost simultaneously with the appearance of the latter,1 and with the gener…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 4 " A little beyond, on the west side, Maringoman's Castle. 1This creek is first called Murderer's on Van der Donck's map, 1656, and was so called doubtless from events occurring during the first Esopus war. 3 Esopus…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The district inhabited by the Mame-kotings was west of the Shawangunk mountains and is still known as the Mamakating valley. Their history is so intimately blended with that of the Esopus Indians that identification …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] head of the waters falling into the Hud-Mohaiuks, but their more considerable son, all the land on which belonged to emigration was to Pennsylvania. * 96 THE INDUN'TRIBES pie, as may be inferred from Kregier's accoun…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] here ? She answered that some Katskill rounded by tomahawks, arrow-heads, Indians lay on the other side near the etc. In one grave was found a sheet iron Sager's kill, but they would not fight tobacco box containing …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2d. The Qneldfls, etc. The Oneidas had, in 1677, one town, " the old Oneida castle," as it was called, containing one 1 Colonial History, in, 250; Brodhead's seven Mohawk villages, but they New York, 11, 129. Pierron…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] ade fifty-eight feet square, and the whole way, Albany, and called Fort Orange, surrounded by a moat eighteen feet wide, by which name, and that of Beaverwyck, Its armament consisted of two large guns the small settl…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The sale of fire-arms to the Mahlcans and Mohawks at Fort Orange and the refusal to sell to the chieftaincies in the vicinity of Fort Am sterdam 4 was a constant irritation, to allay which the Dutch traders treated t…