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Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, or Lenni-Lenape ("original men"), a Native American tribe. The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack rivers. While the Lenape people occupied much of the mid-Atlantic area ...
Oratam (or Oritani/Oratamin) [1] was sagamore, or sachem, of the Hackensack Indians living in northeastern New Jersey during the period of early European colonization in the 17th century. Documentation shows that he lived an unusually long life (almost 90 years) and was quite influential among indigenous and immigrant populations.
Hackensack map c. 1896. The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape, an Algonquian people who became known to settlers as 'the Delaware Indians.' They lived along a river they called Achinigeu-hach, or "Ackingsah-sack", which translates to stony ground—today this river is more commonly known by the name 'the Hackensack River.' [29] A representation of Chief Oratam of the ...
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Hackensack, New Jersey. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
George Cassedy (1783–1842), represented New Jersey in Congress from 1821 to 1827. [9] Enoch Poor (1736–1780), one of George Washington’s officers. [10] Richard Varick (1753–1831), former mayor of the city of New York and former New York Attorney General [11]
Freeholder Peter Zabriskie later donated land near his Hackensack home located at the northeast corner of Main and Bridge Streets, and in 1786, a new courthouse and jail opened. Peter Zabriskie's home, called “The Mansion” was also called “Washington’s Headquarters” because George Washington frequently was a guest there.
The Rumachenank were a Lenape people who inhabited the region radiating from the Palisades in New York and New Jersey at the time of European colonialization in the 17th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Settlers to the provincial colony of New Netherland called them the Haverstroo meaning oat straw , which became Haverstraw in English, and still used to ...
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