nipnichsen

Updated: July 19, 2026

They had but to re-name the creek and make it a real Amster Dam. Spuyten Duyvil Hill toward the west was known to the Indians as Nipnichsen.

C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine - The New York and Albany Post Road: From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against: Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry: Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred: and Five