Manhanset
The Manhanset were a small Algonquin- speaking Indian tribe who lived in the northeastern part of Long Island on Shelter Island in the early 17th century . Their identity is now considered extinct, as the last survivors moved to neighboring tribes in the 18th century and mingled with them.
The Manhanset demonstrably did not live in the area of today's Manhasset , a suburb of New York in the northwest of Long Island, but on Shelter Island (German: Protected Island). Shelter Island is an approximately 70 km² large island in the northeast of Long Islands, which is surrounded on three sides by Shelter Island Sound , while Gardiners Island is to the east . It is largely covered by water (39 km²) and marshland. In 1652 Sachem Pogaticut sold the tribal land to four wealthy sugar traders from Barbados , who were interested in the white oaks growing on the island as wood for their sugar barrels.
Individual proof
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