 In 1766 Daniel Nimham, last sachem of the Wappinger, was part of a delegation that traveled to London to petition the British Crown for land rights and better treatment by the American colonists.Britain had controlled former "Dutch" lands in New York since 1664.Nimham was then living in Stockbridge, but he was originally from the Wappinger settlement of Wiccopee, New York, near what the Dutch had developed as Fishkill on the Hudson.