FDI - Metoac

The Wappinger were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation. They were located along the east bank of the Hudson River from Manhattan to Poughkeepsie and eastward to the lower Connecticut Valley. The tribes was destroyed in conflict with other tribes and Whites. The relatively few survivors absorbed into other cultures.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages)

CT (56)

NY (12)

Year	*History*
1524	Giovanni da Verrazano discovered the narrow entrance to New York harbor which today bears his name
1609	Henry Hudson entered the mouth of the Hudson River; attacked by the Wappinger before having a peaceful meeting and then attacked again at a later date
1613	Dutch bypassed the Wappinger and opened their first trading post (Fort Nassau) on Castle Island just south of Albany
1617	Dutch abandoned Fort Nassau due to war with Mahican and Mohawk
1624	Dutch built a new post (Fort Orange) at present-day Albany
1636	Smallpox epidemic
1642	Mahicans killed 17 of Wecquaesgeek band and kidnapped a number of women and children
1643	Dutch exterminated the remainder of the band "Pavonia Massacre" except for 30 prisoners; Wappinger War (Governor Kieft's War 1643-45) followed; 500 to 700 Wappinger were killed in a massacre
1645	More than 1,600 Wappinger and their allies had been killed
1656	Smallpox epidemic
1664	British fleet captured New Amsterdam
1683	Wappinger sold more than 100,000 acres between 1683-1685 east of the Hudson
1692	Smallpox epidemic
1756	Western bands joined the Nanticoke who in turn joined the Delaware
1774	The balance of the Wappinger joined the Stockbridge except for remnants who remained and absorbed into other cultures

*Ethnie:*	METOAC (MONTAUK)
*Language:*	Wappinger
*Family:*	Eastern Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	None

Year	Total Population	CT	NY	Source
1600				Mooney estimate
1700				NAHDB calculation
1800				NAHDB calculation
1900				NAHDB calculation
2000				NAHDB calculation