People from New Netherland

thumb|Two Delaware Nation citizens, Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat, in [[Oklahoma, in 1915]] The Lenape (, , ; ), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.

indigenous people of North America

The Mohicans or Mahicans ( or ) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language. As part of the Eastern Algonquian family of tribes, they are related to the neighboring Lenape, whose indigenous territory was to the south as far as the Atlantic coast. The Mohicans lived in the upper tidal Hudson River Valley, including the confluence of the Mohawk River (where present-day Albany, New York, developed) and into western New England centered on the upper Housatonic River watershed. After 1680, due to conflicts with the powerful Mohawk to the west durin

participant in the Antinomian Controversy

The Wappinger ( ) were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.

Dutch explorer

Director of New Netherland (1597–1647)

lawyer and landowner in New Netherland (1618–1655)

Dutch admiral

Swedish colonial governor

(1586-1643) Netherlands merchant

American politician (1626-1684)

thumb|267px|A modern map showing Long Island and most of New York City highlighted in green with locations exonyms applied to Native Americans that lived there right|267px|thumb|A modern map broadly showing language areas in the Mid-Atlantic region at the time of European contact in the 17th century

Czech traveller, cartographer and voyager

The Siwanoy () were an Indigenous American band of Munsee-speaking people, who lived in Long Island Sound along the coasts of what are now The Bronx, Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. They were one of the western bands of the Wappinger Confederacy. By 1640, their territory (Wykagyl) extended from Hell Gate to Norwalk, Connecticut, and as far inland as White Plains; it became hotly contested between Dutch and English colonial interests.

Dutch businessman (1590-1640)

Dutch admiral

The Canarsee were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island and Staten Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.

First native-born mayor of New York City 1643-1700

bands of the Lenape people living around the Raritan River and its bay, in what is now northeastern New Jersey and Staten Island, New York

Mayflower passenger (1586-1659)

American mayor

Immigrant

American businessman

early settler of American colonies, Captain of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Militia

Dutch explorer

The Munsee () are a subtribe and one of the three divisions of the Lenape. Historically, they lived along the upper portion of the Delaware River, the Minisink, and the adjacent country in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. They were prominent in the early history of New York and New Jersey, being among the first Indigenous peoples of that region to encounter European colonizers.

ethnic group

American colonist

British colonial military leader, acting governor of New York 1657-1724

Female landowner in the New World

thumb | right|Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions (Dutch West India Company) 1630 In the United States, a patroon (; from Dutch patroon ) was a landholder with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th-century Dutch colony of New Netherland on the east coast of North America. Through the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions of 1629, the Dutch West India Company first started to grant this title and land to some of its invested members. These inducements to foster colonization and settlement (also known as the "Rights and Exemptions") are the basis for the patroon system. By the end of t