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Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 27
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] The tract of marsh and upland extend-ing south of Harlem kill to 91st street as far west as Fifth avenue, to Hellgate bay, on East river. This was the home district of Rechewac, chief of the Reck-gawawanc, and was occupied by him and his people until 1669. It probably in-cluded a native village known as Ko-naande Kongh. 6. Ranachqua (Map VII, C). The tract purchased of the sachem Rechewac and others by Jonas Bronck in 1639, and by him renamed "Emmaus." The name probably applied also to a native station of which traces have been found around AND MONOGRAPHS 222 INDIAN PATHS the site of the one-time Gouverneur Morris mansion at Cypress avenue and