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Daniel Nimham
Stockbridge, Massachusetts began as a mission or “praying
town” for Mochicans and Wappinger Indians.
The so-called Stockbridge Indians supported the Patriot cause during the
Revolution vowing:
“Wherever your armies go, there we will
go; you shall always find us by your side; and if providence calls us to
sacrifice our Lives in the field of battle, we will fall where you fall, and
lay our bones by yours. Nor shall peace ever be made between our nation and the
Red Coats.
Some of the Stockbridge
Indians enlisted as early as 1775, primarily as scouts and sharpshooters, and
were eventually allowed to serve in their own company. The unit suffered devastating casualties
fighting near Knightsbridge, New York (in what is now the Bronx) in 1778.
Daniel Nimham was the last chief of the Wappinger
People. He joined the Patriot cause in
Boston at the age of 49. He and his son
Abraham were killed at the Battle of Knightsbridge.
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