Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 30
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] 229 which include grooved axes, indicate native occupancy of this favorable place. Its aboriginal name denotes "a fine water-place" (Tooker, Indian Place Names). Armbruster says there are immense shell-beds on this island. D. B. Austin states that these beds cover the area of the center of the island, and that they were probably debris from the manufacture of wampum. 53. Flushing (Map I). Site of a large village of the Matinecock chieftaincy. Arm-bruster (Hist. L. I., its Early Days, etc., 1914) says eleven native burials were disturbed within the area of the Linnaean gardens in 1841, and in 1880 a burying ground, on which were stone artifacts, was disturbed on the Thomas P. Duryea farm, a mile from Flushing.