Cushetunk

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: New York Connecticut Pennsylvania

Cushetunk was a Connecticut settlement in New York State, near what is Cochecton, NY, today. This settlement "based their land claim on the contention that Connecticut had been granted lands west of the Delaware in the seventeenth century. These lands were also claimed by William Penn, not to mention the Lenape and Iroquois."^[1]

See also Border Disputes

Sources

1. ↑ https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64500540.pdf pg. 3, Historic and Architectural Resources of the Upper Delaware Valley, New York and Pennsylvania, Narrowsburg

• Sivertsen, Barbara J. and Barbara L. Covey, "The Legend of Cushetunk: The Nathan Skinner Manuscript and The Early History of Cochecton", Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., (1993).
• Fort Delaware Museum of History, Narrowsburg, NY]