Friends, Does anyone have any ideas about a tribe of Indians in Westchester County called "Cognewaugh Indians?" Family lore has it that somewhere back there, we had some Cognewaugh Indian blood in our Hoyt backgrouind. I've been unable to find any positive information about this. So----any ideas, clues, or information would be helpful. George Hoyt

George, Wikipedia has this on the early history of White Plains: [edit] Early history At the time of the Dutch settlement of Manhattan in the early 17th Century, the region had been used as farmland by the Weckquaeskeck tribe, members of the Mohican nation and was called "Quarropas".,[1] To early traders it was known as "the White Plains", either from the groves of white balsam which are said to have covered it,[1] or from the heavy mist that local tradition suggests hovered over the swamplands near the Bronx River.[2] The first non-native settlement came in November, 1683, when a party of Connecticut Puritans moved westward from an earlier settlement in Rye and bought about 4,400 acres, presumably from the Weckquaeskeck. However, one John Richbell of Mamaroneck NY claimed to have earlier title to much of the territory, he also having purchased a far larger plot extending 20 miles inland, perhaps from a different tribe. The matter wasn't settled until 1721, when a Royal Patent for White Plains was granted by King George II. And the Westchester.gov page says; The Indians of Westchester were members of the Algonkian tribes. They were generally more peace loving than the fierce Iroquois, who lived in northern New York. They lived on the bounty of their land. They hunted and fished, and grew crops of corn, beans, and pumpkins. Following the seasons, they spent the summers on the shores of the Long Island Sound and Hudson River, and moved to inland homesites during the colder months. They gathered oysters and other shellfish in summer to be smoked and dried to add to their winter food supply. I'm sure that each of the major tribes in the area had smaller branches with different names, and I did find mention of a Conewaugh Press, but nothing further. I also have some lineage from the Algonkian, but haven't been able to track it down. Sorry. Pat

----- Original Message ----- From: <GWGEHoyt@aol.com> To: <NYWESTCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:04 PM Subject: [NYWESTCH] Cognewaugh Indians > Friends, > > Does anyone have any ideas about a tribe of Indians in Westchester County > called "Cognewaugh Indians?" > George Hoyt I have read a bit about them as a small NE tribe. Would have to search back books to fine it. ASK.com has more than below. http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0506/obits.html 1929 | Gladys I. Tantaquidgeon CCT'29, Uncasville, Conn., a medicine woman of the Mohegan tribe and its oldest living member; Nov. 1. Born in 1899, she was a 10th-generation descendant of Uncas, the famed Mohegan chief. Gladys Tantaquidgeon wrote four books, including Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians (1942, last reprinted in 1995). SEE ALSO http://indians.org/ >