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Nimham Article Images Final The Sherwood House in Yonkers is an example of what a typical tenant farmer house in the Hudson Valley might have looked like. (Image Credit: Yonkers Historical Society) Statue of Chief Nimham by local sculptor Michael Keropian. Michael based the likeness on careful research and correspondence with Nimham relatives. (Image Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Sachem_Daniel_Nimham.jpg/1200px- Sachem_Daniel_Nimham.Jpg) Memorial to Chief Nimham in Putnam County Veterans Park in Kent, NY. Sculpture by Michael Keropian. (Image Credit: Artist Michael Keropian) Recently issued Putnam County Veteran’s Medal by Sculptor Michael Keropian (Image Credit: Artist Michael Keropian) Sketch of Stockbridge Indians by Captain Johann Ewald. Ewald was in a Hessian Jager unit involved in the ambush of Nimham and his men in 1778. His sketch was accompanied by a vivid description of the Stockbridge fighters in his journal: “Their costume was a shirt of coarse linen down to the knees, long trousers also of linen down to the feet, on which they wore shoes of deerskin, and the head was covered with a hat made of bast. Their weapons were a rifle or a musket, a quiver with some twenty arrows, and a short battle-axe which they know how to throw very skillfully. Through the nose and in the ears they wore rings, and on their heads only the hair of the crown remained standing in a circle the size of a dollar-piece, the remainder being shaved off bare. They pull out with pincers all the hairs of the beard, as well as those on all other parts of the body.” (Image Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbridge_Militia) Portrait of Landlord Beverly Robinson, landlord of approximately 60,000 acres in Putnam County. Robinson garnered the ire of many of the Anti-Rent Rioters and the Wappinger. (Image Credit: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume XIII, 1906, page 55; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beverley_Robinson.png) Portrait of Adolph Philipse. Adolphus Philipse (1665–1749), son of Frederick Philipse, first Lord of the Manor of Philipsborough. Adolph was at the center of the Wappinger land controversy. (Image Credit: Putnam County historian - History of Putnam County, New York : http://www.putnamcountyny.com/historian/aboutpc.htm; taken from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_Philipse#/media/File:Portriat_of_Adolphus_Philipse.jpg) Map of the Philipse Patent showing the holdings of Robinson, Morris, and Philipse. Originally part of Dutchess County, Putnam County was created in 1812. (Image Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipse_Patent#/media/File:Map_of_Philipse_Patent_(showing_the_Oblong_and_G ore).png) Sketch of the lands in question by Asa Spalding, Wappinger attorney for the 1767 Land Hearing. Philip’s Upper Patent was the area challenged by Nimham and the Wappinger. The Gore was a contested area between Philips heirs (Including Robinson and Morris) and proprietors of the Rombout and Beekman Patents. (Image Credit: Oscar Handlin and Irving Mark, “Chief Daniel Nimham v. Roger Morris, Beverly Robinson, and Philip Philipse - An Indian Land Case in Colonial New York, 1765-1767”, Ethnohistory, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer 1964), Published by Duke University Press: 217. ) Map by Independent Historian J. Michael Smith - Revision of the map appearing in Smith’s 2010 HRVI article: Wappinger Kinship Associations: Daniel Nimham’s Family Tree, (Hudson River Valley Review - A Journal of Regional Studies, Spring 2010, Marist College) image may not be copied or reproduced without the express permission of J.Michael Smith “Chief Nimham’s Last Stand” – Conception of the ambush of the Stockbridge Indians on Aug. 31, 1778 by artist Don Troiani. Chief Nimham stands in the center aiming his musket at a charging Queen’s Ranger on horseback. (Oil Painting by Don Troiani: http://dontroiani.com/ ) The questionable 1702 Deed produced by Beverly Robinson during the Nimham land hearings. The deed which had never been recorded or registered with NY state was likely obtained from area Natives either under duress or by bribery, or may have been entirely fake. (Image Credit: Bernis Nelson; the deed is held in special collections at Columbia University). The Town of East Fishkill is planning to upgrade the existing plaque at the intersection of Route 52 and 82 to a monument featuring an 8 ft statue of Daniel Nimham by local Sculptor Michael Keropian. .
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