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Oyster Bay and Fort Neck Real Estate
Oyster Bay and Fort Neck Real Estate
(1639 & 1658) 📜
(1639 & 1658) 📜
As the Dutch expanded, land treaties significantly altered ownership and the lives of the Massapequa people.
Mechowodt Agreement (1639): Sachem Mechowodt of the Massapequa signed an "Indian Deed" at Fort Amsterdam, ceding a large tract of land, including part of Massapequa, to the Dutch West India Company. The agreement allowed his people to remain on the land with a pledge of Dutch protection.
Sachem Tackapausha (1658): Land sales continued under Mechowodt’s son, Sachem Tackapausha, who sold more of south Massapequa to English settlers in 1658. Tackapausha was a vital leader who negotiated for the safety of his people and for the building of a fortified trading post by the Dutch at Fort Neck.
The Massapeague Meadows Land Deal 1658
The Massapeague Meadows Land Deal 1658
This excerpt from 1916 Oyster Bay Town records explain the 17th century real estate deal that sold the Massapeag Meadows in south Oysterbay from the Massapeag tribes lead by Sachem Tackapausha (Tackapoosha) of South Massapequa to the Townsend family and several other Oysterbay Leaders. The sale was in the 1650's, but recording date is 1667 showing how the British citizens began to document their newly acquired territories in New York with Lenape leaders.
In return, Indigenous Americans were granted land access for working livestock and natural resources. Image courtesy of Library of Congress.
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