The Navesink, or Navisink, (or Nave Sinck) were a group of Lenape who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore near Sandy Hook and Mount Mitchill in eastern New Jersey in the United States.
Their territory included the peninsula, as well as the highlands south of it, where they lived along its cliffs and creeks. Archeological artifacts have been found throughout this area. The Navesink shared the totem, a turtle, and spoke the same Lenape dialect, Unami language, Unami, as their neighbors, the Raritan (Native Americans), Raritan, and other groups such as the Hackensack (Native Americans), Hackensack and Tappan (Native Americans), Tappan.
Early European contact was in the 16th and 17th centuries. The explorer Henry Hudson, an English people, English sea captain first had contact with the Navesink among Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, as recorded in journals from his ship, the ''Halve Maen'' on September 3, 1609. When crew went off the ship, they were attacked by Navesink. John Colman was killed and was said to be buried at what is now called Keansburg, New Jersey, Coleman's Point.
Cornelius Van Werckhoven, an investor in New Netherland purchased a tract called ''Nevesings'' in November 1651.
At the time of the surrender of the Netherlands, Dutch provincial colony of New Netherland to the British in 1664, the Navesink sachem, or chief, was ''Passachquon''.
In 1668, English settlers bought the whole peninsula from the Navesink Lenape and called it Portland Poynt.
Middletown Township, New Jersey is one of the oldest sites of European settlement in New Jersey.,
"Welcome to the Throckmorton-Lippit-Taylor Burying Ground On Penelope Lane in Middletown, New Jersey"
, ''Atlantic Highlands Herald'', Spring 2003 originally formed on October 31, 1693.
See also
* Penelope Stout
* Navesink River
* Navesink Twin Lights
References
External links
Science Forum Index » Anthropology Forum » Coastal American Aboriginal People
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Lenape
Native American history of New Jersey
Raritan Bayshore
Native American tribes in New Jersey
People of New Netherland
Monmouth County, New Jersey
Algonquian ethnonyms