The Rumachenank were a Lenape people who inhabited the region radiating from the Palisades in New York and New Jersey at the time of European colonialization in the 17th century.
[1][2] Settlers to the provincial colony of New Netherland called them the Haverstroo meaning oat straw, which became Haverstraw in English, and still used to describe part of their territory.
Like the Tappan, whose territory overlapped, the Rumachenank were a seasonally migrational people, who farmed (companion planting), hunted, fished, and trapped.
The Haverstraws were the tribesmen who had the trouble with Verrazzano and the crew of the Half Moon while that vessel was anchored near Stony Point in 1609.
[4] On 6 March 1660, a representative of the Rumachenank took part, with other local leaders, in a peace treaty with the settlers at New Amsterdam,[5] capital of the province.