Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 14
[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 was previously sold by chief or sachem Ka."28 That there were two paths in the Gowanus district is evidenced in a grant of April 5, 1642, by Kieft to Cornells Cool, of land "called Gouwanes reaching in width from the wagon road running through said land and Jan Petersen's land lying along the river," which further stipulated that the paths running over this piece of land shall remain open.29 It seems very likely that this district was occupied by the natives whose chieftain was Gouwanes, since his name has persisted as its title. The old Gowanus road wound crookedly around the margin of the marshes, and near Fourth ave-nue, at 35th street, it became the old Nar-