Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 20
[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 joint action of their chiefs in this sale, and by the appearance, nineteen years later, of the sachem, Magan-wetinnemin, as the representative "for the tribe of Marychkenwingh and for Nayack." From these evidently close relations it is assumable that the Manhattan natives were Canarsee, and that their superiors or rulers were the sachems of the Brooklyn and Flatlands communities. We may even trace in Meijeterma who led the Manhattans of Nayack prior to 1649, and in Seyseys who ruled the Canarsee in.1637, the prob-