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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
| Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) | 50 | 5,568 | Original → |
Passages
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] of the Westchester path over Bronx river 104 X. Weir creek Indian village-site, Throgs neck 112 XI. Foreshore of Weir creek Indian village-site, Throgs neck 114 XII. Van Cortlandt avenue, once the Indian Shore path 116…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] survey, and study. So it becomes an interesting and instruc-tive thought, as we travel along the re-graded thoroughfare, or race over its sur-face in a roaring train of cars, that beneath its hard, asphalted surface, b…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] Manhattan was accessible by water, and the lower part of the island stood at the parting of the waterways. We may assume, however, that canoes were rare possessions, objects constructed only by long-continued labor and…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] of local conditions, influenced by the strong tides, floating ice, rough water, and the carriage of goods in bulk. In particular their use in fishing required strength enough to carry loads of shell-fish, and heavy sea…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] INDIAN NOTES MANHATTAN 39 ward the short ferriage over to the lower end of Manhattan, while the traffic of northeastern Jersey concentrated, through Hoboken, at the Greenwich landing, and the Richmond paths apparently …
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] The trade which thus passed through or across Manhattan was probably fostered, AND MONOGRAPHS 40 INDIAN PATHS as it has been in modern times, by the control of money. The native medium for the exchange of values, the c…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] From Astor place we now follow the path INDIAN NOTES MANHATTAN 61 on its way northward as it was developed into the earliest roadway through the island, the old road which was existing when a cartway was ordered to be …
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] INDIAN PATHS In a statement made by John Randel,9 the surveyor, he describes the course of this old post-road, as it lay in 1808-10, in some detail: "It crossed the 4th avenue at the Middle Road near 29th street, and p…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] near 98th street. These flowed together in a level space, which lay between two ridges on the line of Park avenue, and as the lodges there commanded a full view of the waters of Hellgate bay, the village-site would agr…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] access to a supply of water, the nearest brook being about five hundred feet to the south, and the upper branch of Harlem creek extending on the east about an equal distance from the house-site. Riker12 says: "Harlem L…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] AND MONOGRAPHS 92 INDIAN PATHS important path was the main line of com-munication between the Reckgawawanc and their relatives at Yonkers. It passed through the principal stations of neighbor-ing chieftaincies, at Dobb…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] Here the trail connected with a consid-erable village-site (19) which covered a space of several acres on the level land west of the lake. On this area, when the regrad-ing of the present playing-field was under-taken …
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] Beyond Mosholu avenue the old line of the highway is now abandoned, but its course may still be traced by the trees and stone fences that once lined it on both sides, as far as about 260th street, where it fell in line…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] now known as Castle point, there existed an Indian fortified position or "castle" (9), from which the local name is derived, situated on an elevation of about 60 feet above tide-water. Below this eminence spreads a tra…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] CT w 3 b3 THE BRONX 117 Here it diverged sharply to the east, passing through the northern part of the present Jerome reservoir, and it crossed the line of the old Croton aqueduct atVanCortlandt avenue, following the c…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] beeck to be *'a certain tree or stump on the Long Hill on the one side, and on the AND MONOGRAPHS 144 INDIAN PATHS other the end of the Indian footpath, and that it extends to the creek of the third meadow, which land …
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] THE CANARSEE 149 beach and Canarsie beach may have utilized it to avoid a tramp of four miles. The modern Canarsie, which was part of the township of Flatlands, or Nieuw Amersfoort, was an extensive station of the Cana…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] The most important native station, how-ever, was that known as Keskaechquerem or Keskaechqueren (104), a name which indicates a place of meeting for some public purpose. The importance of Kes-kaechquerem as a meeting p…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] of the early sales of lands. Its sachems in 1638 were Kakapetteyno, Menquaeruan, INDIAN NOTES... TH E C AN ARSEE 153 and Suwiran. With Pewichaus, the local owner, the first-named sachem agreed to the sale in 1637 of Go…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] BOLTON -INDIAN PATHS IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS THE INDIAN VILLAGE-SITE AT GERRITSEN BASIN, FROM A SURVEY AND OBSERVATIONS BY D. B. AUSTIN. THE CANARSEE 155 the important manufacture of wampum was carried on. The position…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] The eastern part of Gravesend neck was the native Narrioch (69), naiag, "a neck," auke, "land," or "a point of land." Upon this tract is the Coney Island Jockey Club's racing ground. It was bounded on the east by Shell…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] AND MONOGRAPHS 170 INDIAN PATHS That the Nayack natives who were the original owners of lower Manhattan were related to the Marechkawick Indians, is made evident not only by their removal to this territory, but by the …
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] as a horticultural establishment, which was known as the Linnsean gardens. Within this area skeletons were uncovered indi-cating its use as a burying-ground. Prob-ably it was a station, and its planting-grounds were ex…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] RICHMOND PATHS 195 around it, and the tidal waters that surge round the point swarming with fish, the station was admirably suited to native life; while across the river, by a short ferriage, the great Minisink path ca…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] through the Watchung mountains. From Pompton an old roadway, possibly the successor of a trail, followed the course of the Ramapo river along the base of the southern Ramapo mountains, by which route the traveler would…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] Long Island. INDIAN NOTES NOTES 211 33' Skinner, A nthropological Papers of the A meri-can Museum of Natural History, 1909. 34. Heye, G. G., and Pepper, G. H., Explora-tion of a Munsee Cemetery near Mon-tague, New Jers…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] City Hall Park, American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 15th Annual Report, p. 383, Albany, 1910. Handbook of American Indians, edited by Frederick W. Hodge, Bulletin 30, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washin…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] Manhattan island. Natives who had INDIAN NOTES INDEX TO STATIONS 221 taken refuge there were massacred by Dutch soldiery at the order of Governor William Kieft, 1643. The most natural position for such a station was ne…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] The tract of marsh and upland extend-ing south of Harlem kill to 91st street as far west as Fifth avenue, to Hellgate bay, on East river. This was the home district of Rechewac, chief of the Reck-gawawanc, and was occu…
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] D). An important native station, the name of which has not been recorded, consisting of a palisaded enclosure, or fort, on the high mound on the west bank of Westchester creek, which was the site of the Screven residen…