Sapohanikan

Map of Lower Manhattan from 1922 showing the location of Sapohanikan (shown in the upper left)

Sapohanikan was a Lenape settlement of the Canarsee now located in close proximity to where Gansevoort Street meets Washington Street near the Hudson River in Manhattan.[1][2] The people of the settlement were violently displaced under Dutch Governor Wouter van Twiller in the 1630s, who operated a tobacco plantation for the Dutch West India Company.[3][4]

In the colony of New Netherland, the area that is now Greenwich Village was commonly referred to as Sapokanikan up until the beginnings of British rule.[3][5] The area of the settlement was referred to in historical records as Sapohanikan in 1639, as Sappokanican in 1640, and as Sapokanikan and Saponickan in 1641.[6]

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  5. ^ Homberger, Eric (2002). New York City : a cultural and literary companion. Oxford: Signal Books. p. 107. ISBN 1-902669-42-8. OCLC 51444181.
  6. ^ Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico. Volume III, N to S. Frederick Webb Hodge. Scituate, MA: Digital Scanning. 2003. p. 464. ISBN 978-1-58218-755-6. OCLC 647873186.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)