Navesink (Native Americans)
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The Navesink, or Navisink, (or Nave Sinck)> were a group of Lenape
who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore
near Sandy Hook
and Mount Mitchill in northern North Jersey
in the United States
.
Their territory included the peninsula, as well as the highlands south of it, where they lived along its cliffs and creeks. Archeological artifacts have been found throughout this area. The Navesink shared the totem
, a turtle, and spoke the same Lenape dialect, Unami
, as their neighbors, the Raritan, and other groups such as the Hackensack
and Tappan
.
Early Europe
an contact was in the 16th and 17th centuries. 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. John Coleman was killed and was said to be buried at what is now called Coleman's Point
.
Cornelius Van Werckhoven, an investor in New Netherland
purchased a tract called Nevesings in November 1651.
At the time of the surrender of the Dutch
provincial colony of New Netherland
to the British in 1664, the Navesink sachem
, or chief, was Passachquon. In 1668, English settlers bought the whole peninsula from the Navesink Lenape and called it Portland Poynt.
Middletown Township, New Jersey
is one of the oldest sites of European settlement in New Jersey., originally formed on October 31, 1693,
Lenape
The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...
who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore
Raritan Bayshore
The Raritan Bayshore region of New Jersey is the area around Raritan Bay from The Amboys to Sandy Hook, mostly in Monmouth County, including the towns from Keyport, New Jersey, "Pearl of the Bayshore", to Highlands, New Jersey. At Keansburg is a traditional amusement park while at Sandy Hook are...
near Sandy Hook
Sandy Hook
Sandy Hook is a barrier spit along the Atlantic coast of New JerseySandy Hook may also refer to:-Places:United States* Sandy Hook , a village in the town of Newtown, Connecticut* Sandy Hook, Kentucky, a city in Elliott County...
and Mount Mitchill in northern North Jersey
North Jersey
North Jersey is a colloquial term, with no precise consensus definition, for the northern portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. A straightforward, noncolloquial term for the region is northern New Jersey.- Two-portion approaches :...
in the United States
United States
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.
Their territory included the peninsula, as well as the highlands south of it, where they lived along its cliffs and creeks. Archeological artifacts have been found throughout this area. The Navesink shared the totem
Totem
A totem is a stipulated ancestor of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, or tribe.Totems support larger groups than the individual person. In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem...
, a turtle, and spoke the same Lenape dialect, Unami
Unami language
Unami is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by Lenape people in what is now the lower Hudson Valley area and New York Harbor area, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, but later in Ontario and Oklahoma. It is one of the two Delaware languages, the other being Munsee...
, as their neighbors, the Raritan, and other groups such as the Hackensack
Hackensack (Native Americans)
Hackensack was the exonym given to a band of Lenape, a Native American people is a European derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers.-Territory and Society:...
and Tappan
Tappan (Native Americans)
The Tappan were a Lenape people who inhabited the region radiating from Hudson Palisades and New York – New Jersey Highlands in at the time of European colonialization in the 17th century....
.
Early Europe
Europe
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an contact was in the 16th and 17th centuries. The explorer Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northeast Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle...
, an English
English people
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sea captain first had contact with the Navesink among Native Americans
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
, as recorded in journals from his ship, the Halve Maen
Halve Maen
The Halve Maen was a Dutch East India Company vlieboot which sailed into what is now New York harbor in September 1609. It was commissioned by the Dutch Republic to covertly find an eastern passage to China...
on September 3, 1609. When crew went off the ship, they were attacked by Navesink. John Coleman was killed and was said to be buried at what is now called Coleman's Point
Keansburg, New Jersey
Keansburg is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 10,105.Keansburg was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 26, 1917, from portions of both Middletown Township and Raritan Township ,...
.
Cornelius Van Werckhoven, an investor in New Netherland
New Netherland
New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod...
purchased a tract called Nevesings in November 1651.
At the time of the surrender of the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
provincial colony of New Netherland
New Netherland
New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod...
to the British in 1664, the Navesink sachem
Sachem
A sachem[p] or sagamore is a paramount chief among the Algonquians or other northeast American tribes. The two words are anglicizations of cognate terms from different Eastern Algonquian languages...
, or chief, was Passachquon. In 1668, English settlers bought the whole peninsula from the Navesink Lenape and called it Portland Poynt.
Middletown Township, New Jersey
Middletown Township, New Jersey
Middletown Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 66,522...
is one of the oldest sites of European settlement in New Jersey., originally formed on October 31, 1693,