Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Corchaug Tribe

Corchaug is a name preserved in records for Native people and places connected with the North Fork. Named leaders, kinship ties, a contested 1659 land meeting, later census records, and descendant relationships show a continuing community history that cannot be reduced to a fixed “tribal” border or an archaeological site. This community page centers people and relationships rather than treating archaeology or a colonial label as the whole story. Named leaders, kinship ties, the contested 1659 meeting, later census records, and descendant connections show a history shaped by diplomacy, land pressure, adaptation, and continuing Native presence—not a people who simply vanished from the North Fork. Corchaug is a name preserved in colonial and later records for Native people and places connected with the North Fork. William Wallace Tooker treated Corchaug as an early spelling related to...