page_title: Wecquaesgeek
hierarchical_section_title: Wecquaesgeek
caption_attribution_description: English: Image is an excerpt from the original map by Nicolaes Visscher in the public domain and previously placed at Wikimedia Commons as File:Map-Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ (Amsterdam, 1685).jpg
context_page_description: The Wecquaesgeek were a Munsee-speaking band of Wappinger people who once lived along the east bank of the Hudson River in the southwest of today's Westchester County, New York.
  As was common practice early in the days of European settlement of North America, a people came to be associated with a place, with its name displacing theirs among the settlers and those associated with them, such as explorers, mapmakers, trading company superiors who sponsored many of the early settlements, and officials in the settlers' mother country in Europe.
  Known by many generally similar spellings, they fished the region's streams and lakes with rods and nets. Their main settlements flanked the then Saeck Kill—today's Saw Mill River—at its confluence with the Hudson at Getty Square in present-day Yonkers.
context_section_description: The Wecquaesgeek (also Manhattoe and Manhattan) were a Munsee-speaking band of Wappinger people who once lived along the east bank of the Hudson River in the southwest of today's Westchester County, New York.
  As was common practice early in the days of European settlement of North America, a people came to be associated with a place, with its name displacing theirs among the settlers and those associated with them, such as explorers, mapmakers, trading company superiors who sponsored many of the early settlements, and officials in the settlers' mother country in Europe.
  Known by many generally similar spellings, they fished the region's streams and lakes with rods and nets. Their main settlements flanked the then Saeck Kill—today's Saw Mill River—at its confluence with the Hudson at Getty Square in present-day Yonkers.
caption: This 1685 reprint of a 1656 map indicates "Wickquaskeck" in Westchester County above Manhattan island and "Manhattans" on it.
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