The Navesink, or Navisink, (or Nave Sinck)[1] were a group of Lenape who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore near Sandy Hook and Mount Mitchill in eastern New Jersey in the United States.
The Navesink shared the totem, a turtle, and spoke the same Lenape dialect, Unami, as their neighbors, the Raritan, and other groups such as the Hackensack and Tappan.
The explorer Henry Hudson, an English sea captain first had contact with the Navesink among Native Americans, as recorded in journals from his ship, the Halve Maen on September 3, 1609.
At the time of the surrender of the Dutch provincial colony of New Netherland to the British in 1664, the Navesink sachem, or chief, was Passachquon.
[2] In 1668, English settlers led by Richard Hartshorne bought the whole peninsula from the Navesink Lenape and called it Portland Poynt.