The Wecquaesgeek (also Manhattoe and Manhattan) were a Munsee-speaking band of Wappinger people who once lived along the east bank of the Hudson River in the southwest of today's Westchester County, New York,[1] and down into the Bronx.

[7] Around half of the military-aged men remaining to the tribe died fighting on behalf of the American Revolutionary Army, though none was granted citizenship after victory.

[8] The following settlements have been documented in historical accounts:[7] The Weckquaesgeek territories were bordered by the Sintsink to the north, below today's Ossining, and inland toward Long Island Sound to that of the Siwanoy, both related Wappinger bands.

[21] Effectively it was their land that the Canarsee people of today's Brooklyn, who only occupied the very southern end of Manhattan island, an area known as the Manhattoes, sold to the Dutch.

[27][28] Compounding this was that the Manhattoes was the only part of Manhattan not occupied by the Wecquasgeek;[19][29] it was a seasonal ground of the Canarsee,[21] a Metoac people who lived across the East River in today's Brooklyn.