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Daniel Nimham
A statue of Daniel Nimham located in the Town of Fishkill, New York, which was commissioned by the Town in 2021. Sculptor Michael Keropian
Born
1726
Died
1778 (aged 51–52)
Children
Abraham
Daniel Nimham (also Ninham) (1726 – 1778) was the last sachem of the Wappinger people and an American Revolutionary War combat veteran. He was the most prominent Native American of his time in the lower Hudson Valley.
DanielNimham (also Ninham) (1726 – 1778) was the last sachem of the Wappinger people and an American Revolutionary War combat veteran. He was the most...
Abraham Nimham (1745 – August 31, 1778) was an American man who was the son of warrior and emissary DanielNimham and a leader of the Wappinger tribe...
stalwart spokesman for Native American concerns and valiant soldier, DanielNimham had traveled to Great Britain in the 1760s to argue for a return of...
Army, was led by Jehoiaikim Mtohksin. Abraham Nimham, the son of famed Wappinger sachem DanielNimham, joined the unit as Mtohksin's second-in-command...
Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0195094275. "The Road to Kingsbridge: DanielNimham and the Stockbridge Indian Company in the American Revolution", Laurence...
tradition said to be his son by Susanna Hutchinson (not to be confused with DanielNimham). On the death of Wampage I, Ninham-Wampage inherited his father's title...
northwest of Carmel in Putnam County. Nimham Mountain is named after Chief DanielNimham of the Wappinger tribe. In 1940, an 82-foot-6-inch-tall (25.15 m) steel...
Revolutionary War. The Battle of King's Bridge in the Bronx, where both DanielNimham, the last sachem of the Wappinger and his son Abraham were killed alongside...
of Tibbett's Brook or Battle of Kingsbridge in 1778. Sachem (Chief) DanielNimham, a Native American chief, and Ethan Allen joined with other Americans...
patents Timeline of town creation in the Hudson Valley An ancestor of DanielNimham, the last sachem of the Wappinger. Genealogy: A Journal of American...
Jersey. On 31 August 1778, Lieut. Col. Simcoe earned a victory over DanielNimham's Native American force serving under the Continental Army as the Stockbridge...
tribespeople, organized into the Stockbridge Militia under Abraham Nimham and his father DanielNimham, are killed by British forces in the Battle of Kingsbridge...
tribespeople, organized into the Stockbridge Militia under Abraham Nimham and his father DanielNimham, were killed by British forces in the Battle of Kingsbridge...
only rented but sold off parcels of her land over the years. She hosted Daniel Ninham, the last sachem of the Wappinger. Catheryna is credited with teaching...
Queries. Vol. VI, no. 4. W. Abbatt. pp. 225–235. Maxson, Thomas F. Mount Nimham: The Ridge of Patriots, Rangerville Press, 2010, p. 22, ISBN 978-0578025810...
plaque misspelling the name of the Indian chief, Abraham Ninham, as "Abraham Nimham." One particular concern was the threat of the wetlands serving as breeding...
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