Home /
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) /
Passage
Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 17
[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 Governors island, and the Rinnegaconck tract at Wallabout. The three chiefs entered into the deed for the sale in the following year of the great tract of Bushwick. Into this station a trail, the later Flatlands Neck road, came from New Lots. On this road, at the place of its crossing the Paardegat, there stood a white oak tree (on the line of Avenue G) which in 1666 marked the boundary of the