According to historians William Burrows and Mike Wallace, “By the time Europeans appeared on the scene. . .what is now New York City had as many as fifteen thousand inhabitants - estimates vary widely - with perhaps another thirty to fifty thousand in the adjacent parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, Westchester County, and Long Island.” The inhabitants of this region were the Lenape, also known as the Lenni Lenape, or Munsee, and later as the Delaware.