Nechtanc
Vanished settlement · United States
- Abandoned
- 1643
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.715, -73.979
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: In 1643, the settlement was the site of a massacre of Lenape people, mostly women and children, after the governor of New Netherland ordered the people killed as they slept.
History
Nechtanc was a Lenape settlement of the Canarsee located in what is now Two Bridges, Manhattan or the Lower East Side where the East River begins to turn north. In 1643, the settlement was the site of a massacre of Lenape people, mostly women and children, after the governor of New Netherland ordered the people killed as they slept. A simultaneous massacre occurred at Pavonia, just across the East River. The village is alternatively referred to in historical documents as Rechtauk.