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Henry Hudson (c. 1565 ... [27] and the following day encountered a group of 28 Lenape canoes, buying oysters and beans from the Native Americans, ...
On September 6, 1609, only five days after the arrival of the first Dutch and English sailors, John Colman was reportedly killed by attacking Native Americans by an arrow to his neck. [1] Colman was an "accomplished sailor" and served as second mate on Henry Hudson's ship.
The Wappinger (/ ˈ w ɒ p ɪ n dʒ ər / WOP-in-jər) [3] were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.. At the time of first contact in the 17th century they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York, but their territory included the east bank of the Hudson in what became both Putnam and ...
Prior to Henry Hudson's arrival in 1609, the Wappinger People lived on the eastern shore of the today's Hudson River, a tidal estuary for some half its length. To them, it was the Muhheakantuck, "the river that flows both ways", and their territory spread from Manhattan Island north to the Roeliff Jansen Kill in Columbia County, and east as far as the Norwalk River in Fairfield County ...
The lower Hudson River was inhabited by the Lenape Indians. [12] In fact, the Lenape Indians were the people that waited for the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano onshore, traded with Henry Hudson, and sold the island of Manhattan. [12] Further north, the Wappingers lived from Manhattan Island up to Poughkeepsie. They lived a similar lifestyle to ...
The explorer Henry Hudson, an English sea captain first had contact with the Navesink among Native Americans, as recorded in journals from his ship, the Halve Maen on September 3, 1609. When crew went off the ship, they were attacked by Navesink.
The Henry H. Hudson Memorial Trophy goes to the winner of the Astronaut-Titusville high school football game, ... near his native Algona. He died June 8, 1972, at the age of 83, and the series ...
Manhattan is derived from Manna-hata, a Dutch version of a Lenape place name, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). [4] A 1610 map depicts the name Manahata twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the North River, and now called the Hudson River).