The Navesink, or Navisink, (or Nave Sinck) were a group of Lenape who inhabited the

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near

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and

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in eastern New Jersey in the

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. 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

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, a turtle, and spoke the same Lenape dialect,

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, as their neighbors, the Raritan, and other groups such as the Hackensack and Tappan. Early

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an contact was in the 16th and 17th centuries. The explorer

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, an

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sea captain first had contact with the Navesink among Native Americans, as recorded in journals from his ship, the ''

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'' on September 3, 1609. When crew went off the ship, they were attacked by Navesink.

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was killed and was said to be buried at what is now called Coleman's Point. Cornelius Van Werckhoven, an investor in

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purchased a tract called ''Nevesings'' in November 1651. At the time of the surrender of the

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provincial colony of

to the British in 1664, the Navesink

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, or chief, was ''Passachquon''. In 1668, English settlers bought the whole peninsula from the Navesink Lenape and called it Portland Poynt.

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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.

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{{authority control 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

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