 Soon after, local residents discovered the corpses being scavenged by dogs, and they buried them in a mass grave.By the 19th century the spirit of their sachem was said to haunt the land of "Indian Field".That engagement was the last of the war for the militia; Abraham's father, Daniel Nimham, was a man of great standing among the Wappinger, and the other casualties represented a significant loss to the total population of the tribe back in Massachusetts.