page_title: Wappinger
section_title: Wecquaesgeek
hierarchical_section_title: Wappinger / Bands / Wecquaesgeek
caption_attribution_description: English: Stokes, Iconography, p. 147 (vol. 1), lists dates as 1651-55. See Map collectors circle, #24. Includes view "Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans." Scale: ca. 1:3,300,000 Nicolaes Visscher: Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ: nec non partis Virginiæ tabula multis in locis emendata / per Nicolaum Visscher nunc apud Petr. Schenk Iun. (1685)
context_page_description: The Wappinger were an Eastern Algonquian-speaking tribe from New York and Connecticut. They lived on the east bank of the Hudson River eastward to the Connecticut River valley.
  In the 17th century, they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York, and their territory included the east bank of the Hudson in what became both Putnam and Westchester counties south to Manhattan Island. To the north, the Roeliff-Jansen Kill marked the beginning of Mahican territory. The totem of the Wappinger was the “enchanted wolf”, with the right paw raised defiantly. They shared this totem with the Mahicans – their closest allies, located to the north.
context_section_description: Wecquaesgeek (Wiechquaeskeck, Wickquasgeck, Weckquaesgeek), southwestern Westchester County, New York, centered around the area of present-day Dobbs Ferry.
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caption: Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ (Amsterdam, 1685) (New Netherland and New England, and also parts of Virginia, a 1685 revision by Petrus Schenk Junior of a 1656 map by Nicolaes Visscher)
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