{"id":159,"date":"2025-08-20T20:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunnicmatinecocktribalnation.org\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:08:45","slug":"historical-documentation-public-records","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hunnicmatinecocktribalnation.org\/index.php\/historical-documentation-public-records\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Historical Documentation &amp; Public Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hunnic Matinecock Tribal Nation<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Official Archive of Ancestral, Historical, Genealogical, Treaty, and Public Records<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hunnic Matinecock Tribal Nation maintains this page as a public record of the documents, archives, genealogies, petitions, deeds, rolls, and historical materials that support the Nation\u2019s continuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The purpose of this archive is to present the Nation\u2019s record in an organized, transparent, and verifiable form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation understands its ancestry and authority first through Indigenous law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public records are used to document, corroborate, and clarify relationships that arise through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bloodline and descent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maternal and paternal inheritance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sachemic succession<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marriage and family alliance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adoption and incorporation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collateral kinship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confederated relationship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Land stewardship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compact and treaty<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continuing national responsibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No colonial, state, federal, genealogical, or commercial record is treated as the original source of Indigenous identity or authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The records presented here form part of a cumulative evidentiary foundation maintained by the Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I. Evidentiary Standard<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation evaluates its historical and ancestral record through multiple forms of evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Indigenous law and custom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Family genealogies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oral and inherited traditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vital records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Church and burial records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Census records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Land deeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Petitions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Court records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colonial records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>State and federal archives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tribal and community histories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dawes-era records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Documentary genealogy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Genetic evidence used as supporting context<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continuing governmental records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Institutional and diplomatic continuity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No single document is treated as conclusive for every question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each source is evaluated according to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>its origin;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>its date;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>its purpose;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>its authorship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>its relationship to the people named;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>its consistency with other records; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Indigenous legal context in which the relationship arose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation distinguishes among documented fact, inherited tradition, genealogical reconstruction, legal interpretation, and continuing research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">II. Sachem Catoneras Record<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Historical Identification<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sachem Catoneras is a foundational maternal ancestor of the Hunnic Matinecock Tribal Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The surviving historical record expressly identifies her as an <strong>\u201cIndian native Sachem.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Records associated with approximately 1685, 1705, and 1713 further establish that Catoneras possessed inherited Indigenous interests connected to Crab Meadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The record indicates that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>her interests were inherited;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the interests arose through her Indigenous family;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>her son, Jan Cornelissen, derived his claim through his mother and her Native relations;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the claim did not originate through a colonial grant; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the family remained connected to the Indigenous landholding and sachemic network of western Long Island.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These records form a central part of the Nation\u2019s documentary foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catoneras\u2013Van Texel Kinship Compact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Catoneras entered into union with Cornelius Jansen Van Texel, also recorded as Van Tassel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through that union, her maternal Indigenous ancestry, inheritance, kinship, and family responsibility continued into later generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation recognizes this relationship as the:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catoneras\u2013Van Texel Kinship Compact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Compact reflects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Indigenous marriage and family law<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maternal succession<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intercultural alliance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Land relationship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Descendant continuity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shared family responsibility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continuing kinship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Compact is a Nation-held interpretation of the Indigenous legal and familial relationship preserved through the historical record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The surviving records corroborate the relationship and its consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They did not create the relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crab Meadow Record<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Crab Meadow materials are central to the Nation\u2019s understanding of Catoneras and her descendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The record identifies inherited Indigenous interests and places Jan Cornelissen\u2019s claim through his mother and her Native family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also connects the family to a broader Indigenous landholding and governmental network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Crab Meadow record is therefore significant for its evidence of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>maternal inheritance;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous family title;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Native ownership;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>descendant succession;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sachemic relationship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and the continued legal importance of Indigenous kinship within colonial proceedings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">III. Tackapousha and Opsam<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tackapousha was the principal sachem of the Massapequa and a major Indigenous leader within the western Long Island political sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His authority is reflected through records involving:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>land stewardship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>diplomacy;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>territorial responsibility;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous ownership;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>negotiated relations;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>family alliance;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and intercommunity government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opsam is identified in the historical record as Tackapousha\u2019s son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opsam was among the Indigenous owners connected to the Crab Meadow transaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tackapousha personally witnessed the deed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their participation places Catoneras, Jan Cornelissen, and the inherited Crab Meadow interests within a documented Indigenous network of landholding, kinship, sachemship, and government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation preserves these records as evidence of the wider political order in which Catoneras and her descendants were situated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IV. Montaukett and Wyandanch Records<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sachem Mongotucksee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sachem Mongotucksee, remembered as \u201cLong Knife,\u201d was a prominent Montaukett leader during the period before and during sustained colonial contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His leadership forms part of the wider sachemic and political history of eastern Long Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grand Sachem Wyandanch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grand Sachem Wyandanch, son of Mongotucksee, was one of the principal Indigenous diplomatic and political leaders of seventeenth-century Long Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His standing is reflected in deeds, agreements, petitions, diplomatic correspondence, and colonial records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation preserves inherited Montaukett and Van Texel\u2013Van Tassel traditions placing Catoneras within Wyandanch\u2019s close family and sachemic network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where surviving records do not conclusively establish biological paternity, the Nation classifies the relationship according to the evidence available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The record may therefore distinguish among:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>biological descent;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>lineage tradition;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>collateral kinship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sachemic relationship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>political association;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and confederated alliance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation preserves both the inherited tradition and the limits of the surviving documentary record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">V. Northeastern Ancestral Records<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation maintains records concerning ancestral and kinship relationships among Indigenous peoples of Long Island, Southern New England, the Hudson Valley, and the wider Northeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These include the following lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pequot and Narragansett<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation preserves ancestral and collateral relationships associated with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quashawan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sachem Sassacus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sachem Tatobem<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grand Sachem Canonicus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Related Pequot and Narragansett families<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These relationships are evaluated through family genealogies, inherited tradition, regional history, marriage alliance, and documentary research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where precise parentage or branch placement remains under archival study, the Nation records the relationship according to its current evidentiary classification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mohegan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation preserves ancestral and collateral relationships associated with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Uncas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We-ta-quash<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mary Uncas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Related Mohegan families<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These records are understood within the wider diplomatic, marital, and political world of Southern New England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The continuing history and government of the Mohegan people provide important corroborative context without serving as the source of the Nation\u2019s own authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mattabesett and Wangunk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation\u2019s record includes relationships associated with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sequin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sowheag, also known as Sequasson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mattabesett families<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wangunk families<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connecticut River Indigenous communities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These lines reflect the interconnection of inland and coastal Indigenous peoples through kinship, alliance, diplomacy, and shared regional history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wappinger, Munsee\u2013Lenape, and Hudson Valley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation maintains records concerning relationships within the Wappinger, Munsee\u2013Lenape, Ramapo, and wider Hudson Valley Indigenous sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These relationships are understood within a regional history of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>intermarriage;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>migration;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>shared waterways;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>trade;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>seasonal movement;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>displacement;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and continuing family connection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation\u2019s seat in Rockland County is located within this ancient Indigenous landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VI. Haudenosaunee-Connected Records<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation maintains records of Haudenosaunee-connected ancestry and kinship, including Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka, or Mohawk-related, lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These relationships are evaluated through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>genealogy;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>family tradition;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>marriage alliance;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>adoption;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>collateral kinship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>confederated relationship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and continuing archival research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794 forms part of the continuing treaty history of the Six Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within this archive, it is cited as legal and historical context for the political and treaty-bearing status of the Haudenosaunee nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not treated as a substitute for documentary descent, citizenship determination, or Nation-specific treaty interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The existence and continuity of Haudenosaunee governments add corroborative weight to the political world reflected within the Nation\u2019s ancestral record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VII. Cherokee and Southeastern Records<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation maintains documented Cherokee ancestry through the Davis, Price, and Smith family lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The record includes Dawes-era documentation associated with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jeremiah L. Davis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joseph Price<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annie C. Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Related Davis, Price, and Smith descendants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These records provide documentary evidence of Cherokee ancestry and historical community connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation also preserves Powhatan, Shawnee, and related Southeastern ancestry through separate family lines and marriage relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each line is evaluated according to its own evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cherokee treaties of Hopewell, Holston, and New Echota form part of the historical and legal framework surrounding the Cherokee people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within this archive, they provide context for the treaty-bearing nation represented within the Nation\u2019s documented ancestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation distinguishes among:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ancestry;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dawes-era documentation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>historical community connection;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>present citizenship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>treaty interpretation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and governmental jurisdiction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each is recorded according to the evidence and law applicable to that issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VIII. Colonial-Era Descendant Families<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The descendants of Sachem Catoneras and Cornelius Jansen Van Texel continued through families established across Long Island, New York, Connecticut, the Hudson Valley, and neighboring regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Van Texel and Van Tassel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knapp<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travis and Travers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outhouse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dyckman and Dykman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Related descendant families<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their importance within the Nation\u2019s record arises through the transmission of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Catoneras\u2019s maternal line;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous ancestry;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>inherited kinship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>family memory;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>land relationships;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and descendant continuity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indigenous descent was often carried through families later recorded under European surnames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intermarriage, migration, church affiliation, census classification, and participation in colonial communities did not automatically terminate Native ancestry or kinship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation includes these families where the documentary and genealogical record supports the relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IX. Petitions, Deeds, Treaties, and Compacts<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation\u2019s public archive includes records associated with the following instruments and categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Long Island and Southern New England Records<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Crab Meadow records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Montaukett petitions associated with 1685 and 1705<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Long Island Indigenous deeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Montaukett land records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Massapequa-related deeds and transactions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mattabesett and Wangunk agreements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Narragansett and Mohegan diplomatic records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treaty of Hartford and related regional instruments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Catoneras\u2013Van Texel Kinship Compact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Haudenosaunee Treaty Records<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1784<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cherokee Treaty Records<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Treaty of Hopewell of 1785<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treaty of Holston of 1791<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treaty of New Echota of 1835<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These records demonstrate the political and diplomatic character of the Indigenous peoples represented within the Nation\u2019s ancestral lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They document nations and leaders acting through their own authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The application of any particular treaty provision is considered according to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the treaty text;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the original parties;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous law;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the nature of the ancestral relationship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>continuing governmental interpretation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and applicable law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">X. Genealogical Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation\u2019s genealogical record is developed through the combined study of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>family records;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>parent-child documentation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>birth, marriage, and death records;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>church registers;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>census records;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>probate files;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cemetery and burial records;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>deeds and land records;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>petitions;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>public family trees;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>archival collections;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and descendant research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genealogical platforms may provide useful records, source leads, and relationship pathways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are not treated as self-authenticating proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation evaluates platform-based material against original records, historical context, family continuity, and Indigenous law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XI. Genetic Evidence<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genetic evidence may provide supporting information concerning biological relationship, shared ancestry, and broader population history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation may consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>autosomal DNA;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Y-DNA;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>mitochondrial DNA;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>shared matches;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>family clustering;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and comparative genealogical analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genetic evidence is used as corroborative context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It does not independently establish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Indigenous citizenship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>membership in a particular nation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sachemic office;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>treaty entitlement;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>political jurisdiction;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>or governmental authority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commercial ethnicity estimates are not treated as final determinations of identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation gives greater weight to documented descent, family continuity, Indigenous kinship, and historical record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XII. Public Repositories<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation\u2019s historical and genealogical research may draw upon records held by the following institutions and repositories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>New York State Archives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New York State Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Suffolk County archives and land records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>East Hampton Town records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huntington and regional Long Island records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Netherland Institute and Dutch colonial collections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United States National Archives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Library of Congress<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connecticut state and local archives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhode Island archival collections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tribal and community archives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oklahoma Historical Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dawes Commission records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cherokee archival repositories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FamilySearch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancestry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University and historical society collections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Church, cemetery, and probate repositories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presence of a repository on this list does not mean every record has been fully digitized or publicly accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some documents may require archival requests, on-site review, certified copies, or further authentication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XIII. Record Classification<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For institutional clarity, the Nation classifies its evidence as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Primary Record<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An original or contemporaneous record, including a deed, petition, court record, vital record, treaty, roll, or official archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Secondary Historical Source<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A later historical work, transcription, published genealogy, or scholarly interpretation based upon earlier records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Family and Oral Tradition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An inherited account preserved through family, community, or tribal memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genealogical Reconstruction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A relationship developed through the combined analysis of multiple records and generational links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indigenous-Law Interpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A determination concerning kinship, succession, marriage, adoption, alliance, compact, or responsibility under Indigenous legal principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genetic Corroboration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DNA or population evidence used to support, but not independently establish, a genealogical or political conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Continuing Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A relationship, record, or interpretation that remains under archival, genealogical, or legal examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These classifications allow the Nation to present its record accurately without treating every source as equal in purpose or evidentiary weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XIV. Public Record Findings<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation\u2019s public record presently supports the following findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sachem Catoneras is identified in the historical record as an \u201cIndian native Sachem.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Her Indigenous interests were inherited through Native family relationship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jan Cornelissen derived his claim through Catoneras and her Indigenous relations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Crab Meadow record places the family within the broader Indigenous landholding and sachemic network associated with Tackapousha and Opsam.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Catoneras\u2013Van Texel line continued through multiple descendant families across Long Island, New York, Connecticut, and the Hudson Valley.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Nation preserves additional documented, collateral, traditional, adoptive, confederated, and treaty-connected relationships among Indigenous peoples of the Northeast and Southeast.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dawes-era records provide documentary support for Cherokee ancestry within the Davis, Price, and Smith lines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treaty and archival records confirm the political and diplomatic standing of the Indigenous peoples represented within the Nation\u2019s ancestry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The continuing governments of related Indigenous nations add corroborative historical and legal context while remaining independent in citizenship, jurisdiction, and authority.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Nation\u2019s continuity is maintained through ancestry, Indigenous law, organized government, public service, institutional development, and preservation of records.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statement of Open Record<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hunnic Matinecock Tribal Nation maintains this archive in the interest of historical clarity, institutional transparency, and responsible preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation welcomes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>archival review;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>scholarly research;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>genealogical collaboration;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous historical exchange;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>correction supported by reliable evidence;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and the discovery of additional primary records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nation may revise this page as new records are located, authenticated, interpreted, or incorporated into its official archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such revision reflects responsible recordkeeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It does not alter the continuity of the people whose history the records preserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Official Notice<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This 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