Abraham Nimham (c. 1745 – August 31, 1778) was a Native American man who was the son of

sachem Sachems and sagamores are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois. The two words are anglicizations of cognate terms (c. 1622) from different Eastern Alg ...

and emissary

Daniel Nimham Daniel Nimham (also Ninham) (c. 1726 – 1778) was the last sachem of the Wappinger people and an American Revolutionary War combat veteran. He was the most prominent Indigenous peoples, Native American of his time in the lower Hudson Valley. B ...

, and himself a

Wappinger The Wappinger ( ) were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut. At the time of first contact in the 17th century they were primarily based in what is now Dutc ...

leader. During the Revolutionary War, he served with his father in the

Stockbridge Militia The Stockbridge Militia was a Native American military unit from Stockbridge, Massachusetts which served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The militia unit was composed mostly of Mohican, Wappinger, and Munsee from t ...

, often accompanying him on diplomatic and recruiting missions. Nimham was commissioned a captain, and was given command of a detachment of sixty Stockbridge and River Indian soldiers. On April 28, 1778, Nimham and his father joined the

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. On August 31, 1778, both Abraham and Daniel Nimham were ambushed and killed by a ranger patrol under the command of

John Graves Simcoe Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British army officer, politician and colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 u ...

during the Battle of Kingsbridge at Cortlandt Ridge.

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