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Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 21
[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 extended over the same tract that afterward formed the garden. A mile to the east, on the Duryea farm, objects of native manufacture evidenced the presence of the Indians. The Flushing sta-tion appears to have been the headquarters at one time of the leading sachem of this part of Long Island, for in 1664 Tackapoosa. INDIAN NOTES BOROUGH OF QUEENS 183 son and survivor of the great Mechowodt, the Ancient One, was resident there. The Matinecock were at one time numer-