Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory

The Conoy, also called Piscataway, were an Algonquian -speaking Native American tribe, which is related to the Lenni Lenape and the Nanticoke. They lived between the Potomac River and the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, the present-day Maryland, United States. From old records it can be seen that they mainly earned their livelihood by hunting with bow and arrow on the abundant abundant game and poultry their residential area. Their dwellings were oval shaped.

In the 17th century, under pressure from the Susquehanna, fled up the rapidly decreasing in number Conoy the Potomac and entered into the interior of Pennsylvania. Gradually, they went up the Susquehanna River and in 1765 150 members of the tribe had reached the southern New York under the rule of the Iroquois. With the Mahican and Lenni Lenape, of which they were taken, they moved westward.