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Metoac

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Metoac was a term erroneously used to describe Native Americans on Long Island in New York state, in the belief that various bands on the island comprised distinct tribes. [1]

67 relations: Alley Pond Park, Asharoken, New York, Asiba Tupahache, Barren Island, Brooklyn, Baxter Estates, New York, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, Bethpage Purchase, Brookville, New York, Canarsie, Brooklyn, Captain John Underhill, Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve, Council of Assizes, Council Rock (Oyster Bay, New York), Douglaston, Queens, East Northport, New York, Far Rockaway, Queens, Five Points, Manhattan, Flushing Bay, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Flushing, Queens, Fort Corchaug Archaeological Site, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Fort Terry, Franklin Square, New York, Freeport, New York, Glen Cove, New York, Gowanus Canal, Gowanus, Brooklyn, Great Neck, New York, History of Long Island, History of New York City, Huntington, New York, Lenape, List of place names of Native American origin in New York, Little Neck Bay, Little Neck, Queens, Lloyd Harbor, New York, Major Thomas Jones, Manhattan, Massapequa, New York, Matinecock, New York, Mattituck, New York, Merrick, New York, Mohegan-Pequot language, Nassau County, New York, Nathaniel Sylvester, Nissequogue River, Northport, New York, Old Bethpage, New York, ..., Oyster Bay History Walk, Pound Ridge massacre, Quiripi language, Rockville Centre, New York, Roosevelt Island, Sag Harbor, New York, Seely/Wright House, Siwanoy, Southold (CDP), New York, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Thomas Powell (1641–1722), Wantagh, New York, Wappinger, New York, William "Tangier" Smith, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, Wouter van Twiller, Zion Episcopal Church (Queens). Expand index (17 more) »

Alley Pond Park

Alley Pond Park is the second-largest public park in Queens, New York City.

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Asharoken, New York

Asharoken is a village in Suffolk County, New York in the United States.

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Asiba Tupahache

Asiba Tupahache is a Matinecoc Nation Native American activist from New York and was a vice presidential candidate in the 1992 election on Peace and Freedom Party ticket, accompanying Ronald Daniels.

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Barren Island, Brooklyn

Barren Island was an island in Jamaica Bay, off the southeast shore of Brooklyn in New York City, New York.

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Baxter Estates, New York

The Village of Baxter Estates (also known as VBE) is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States, in the town of North Hempstead.

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Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Bedford–Stuyvesant (colloquially known as Bed–Stuy and Bedford-Stuy) is a neighborhood of 153,000 inhabitants in the north central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Bergen Beach, Brooklyn

Bergen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Bethpage Purchase

The Bethpage Purchase was a 1687 land transaction in which Thomas Powell, Sr, bought more than in central Long Island, New York for £140 (English pounds sterling) from local Indian tribes, including the Marsapeque, Matinecoc, and Sacatogue.

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Brookville, New York

The Village of Brookville is a village located within the town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York.

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Canarsie, Brooklyn

Canarsie is a working- and middle-class residential and commercial neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, United States.

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Captain John Underhill

John Underhill (7 October 1597 – 21 July 1672) was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, where he also served as governor; the New Haven Colony, New Netherland, and later the Province of New York, settling on Long Island.

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Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve

Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve is a state park on Lloyd Neck, a peninsula extending into the Long Island Sound, in the Village of Lloyd Harbor, New York.

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Council of Assizes

The Council of Assizes, also referred to as the Court of Assize, was given power of making, altering and abolishing any laws of New York.

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Council Rock (Oyster Bay, New York)

Council Rock is located on Lake Avenue, a hundred yards south of West Main Street in Oyster Bay, New York.

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Douglaston, Queens

Douglaston is an upper middle class community in the New York City borough of Queens.

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East Northport, New York

East Northport is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Far Rockaway, Queens

Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.

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Five Points, Manhattan

Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Flushing Bay

Flushing Bay is a tidal embayment in New York City.

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Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park, or simply Flushing Meadows, is a public park in New York City.

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Flushing, Queens

Flushing is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.

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Fort Corchaug Archaeological Site

Fort Corchaug Archeological Site is a prehistoric archaeological site in Cutchogue on eastern Long Island in New York State.

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Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Fort Terry

Fort Terry was a coastal fortification on Plum Island, a small island just off Orient Point, New York, USA.

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Franklin Square, New York

Franklin Square is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Freeport, New York

Freeport (officially The Incorporated Village of Freeport) is a village in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, US, on the South Shore of Long Island.

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Glen Cove, New York

Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island.

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Gowanus Canal

The Gowanus Canal (originally known as Gowanus Creek) is a canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the westernmost portion of Long Island.

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Gowanus, Brooklyn

Gowanus is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the South Brooklyn area.

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Great Neck, New York

Great Neck is a region on Long Island, New York, that covers a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, which includes 9 villages, including the villages of Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, a number of unincorporated areas, as well as an area south of the peninsula near Lake Success and the border territory of Queens.

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History of Long Island

Long Island has had a long recorded history from the first European settlements in the 17th century to today.

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History of New York City

The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524.

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Huntington, New York

The Town of Huntington is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Lenape

The Lenape, also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in Canada and the United States.

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List of place names of Native American origin in New York

This is a list of Native American place names in the U.S. state of New York.

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Little Neck Bay

Little Neck Bay is an embayment in western Long Island, New York, off Long Island Sound.

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Little Neck, Queens

Little Neck is an upper middle class neighborhood of Queens, New York City, bordered on the north by Little Neck Bay and on the east by Great Neck in Nassau County.

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Lloyd Harbor, New York

Lloyd Harbor is a village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island.

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Major Thomas Jones

Major Thomas Jones (ca. 1665 – 13 December 1713) emigrated to Rhode Island from Strabane, in Ireland.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Massapequa, New York

Massapequa is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the southern part of the Town of Oyster Bay in southeastern Nassau County, New York, on Long Island, east of New York City.

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Matinecock, New York

The Incorporated Village of Matinecock is a village located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, USA.

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Mattituck, New York

Mattituck is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Merrick, New York

Merrick is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Mohegan-Pequot language

Mohegan-Pequot (also known as Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk, Secatogue, and Shinnecock-Poosepatuck; dialects in New England included Mohegan, Pequot, and Niantic; and on Long Island, Montauk and Shinnecock) is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by indigenous peoples in southern present-day New England and eastern Long Island.

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Nassau County, New York

Nassau County or is a suburban county comprising much of western Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.

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Nathaniel Sylvester

Nathaniel Sylvester (1610-1680) was an Anglo-Dutch sugar merchant and the first European settler of Shelter Island.

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Nissequogue River

The Nissequogue River is an long river flowing from Smithtown, New York into the Long Island Sound.

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Northport, New York

Northport is a historic maritime village in the Town of Huntington on Long Island, New York.

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Old Bethpage, New York

Old Bethpage is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located on Long Island in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Oyster Bay History Walk

The Oyster Bay History Walk is a path through downtown Oyster Bay, New York that leads the walker to 30 historic sites.

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Pound Ridge massacre

The Pound Ridge massacre was a battle of Kieft's War that took place in March 1644 between the forces of New Netherland and members of the Wappinger Confederacy at a Wappinger Confederacy village in the present-day town of Pound Ridge, New York.

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Quiripi language

Quiripi (pronounced, also known as Quiripi-Unquachog, Quiripi-Naugatuck, and Wampano) was an Algonquian language formerly spoken by the indigenous people of southwestern Connecticut and central Long Island,Rudes (1997:1)Goddard (1978:72) including the Quinnipiac, Unquachog, Mattabesic, Podunk, Tunxis, and Paugussett (subgroups Naugatuck, Potatuck, Weantinock).

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Rockville Centre, New York

Rockville Centre is an incorporated village located in Nassau County, New York, in the United States.

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Roosevelt Island

Roosevelt Island is a narrow island in New York City's East River.

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Sag Harbor, New York

Sag Harbor is an incorporated village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, in the towns of East Hampton and Southampton.

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Seely/Wright House

The Seely/Wright House is a historic house on West Main Street in Oyster Bay, New York.

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Siwanoy

The Native American Siwanoy or Sinawoy were a tribe of the Wappinger Confederacy, in what is now the New York City area.

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Southold (CDP), New York

Southold (pronounced "South-hold") is a census-designated place (CDP) that generally corresponds to the hamlet by the same name in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Thomas Powell (1641–1722)

Thomas Powell (1641–1721/22) was a land owner in the middle section of Long Island in the Province of New York during the colonial period of American history.

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Wantagh, New York

Wantagh is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County on Long Island, New York, United States.

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Wappinger, New York

Wappinger is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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William "Tangier" Smith

William "Tangier" Smith (February 2, 1655 – February 18, 1705) was a mayor of Tangier, on the coast of Morocco, and an early settler of New York who owned more than of Atlantic Ocean waterfront property in central Long Island in New York State, in what is called the Manor of St. George.

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Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn

Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in the northwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Wouter van Twiller

Wouter van Twiller (May 22, 1606 – buried August 29, 1654) was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the Director of New Netherland from 1633 until 1638.

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Zion Episcopal Church (Queens)

Zion Church is an inclusive Episcopal congregation in Douglaston, New York with members from throughout the borough of Queens, and from Nassau County.

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13 Tribes of Long Island, Canarsee Indian, Canarsee Indians, Canarsie Indians, Corchaug, Matinecoc, Matinecock (tribe), Matinecock Indians, Matinecocks, Mericoke, Secatague, Thirteen Tribes of Long Island, Unkechaug Nation.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metoac

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