While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Manhattan
('the hill island,' or 'the island of hills,' from manah 'island',
-atin 'hill.' Tooker). A tribe of the Wappinger confederacy that
occupied Manhattan Island and the east bank of Hudson river and shore of
Long Island Sound, in Westchester county, N. Y.
Early Dutch writers applied the name also to people of
neighboring Wappinger tribes. The Manhattan had their principal village,
Nappeckamack, where Yonkers now stands, and their territory stretched to
Bronx river. From their fort, Nipinichsen, on the north bank of Spuyten
Duyvil creek, they sallied out in two canoes to attack Hendrik Hudson when
he returned down the river in 1609. Manhattan Island contained several
villages which they used only for hunting and fishing. One was Sapohanikan.
The island was bought from them by Peter Minuit on May 6, 1626, for 60
guilders' worth of trinkets (Martha J. Lamb, Hist. City of N. Y., 1, 53,
1877). Their other lands were disposed of by later sales.
