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Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 26

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[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 near a fresh-water pond and brook at the present Jefferson, Henry, Clinton, and Madison streets, facing south on an open beach on East river. 4. Sapohanikan (Maps II; VIII, A). A station, but probably no more than a landing and trading place, utilized as the nearest convenient point of access to Hoboken, when peltries and goods