The restricted hunting area and the rather limited cultivable lands in its vicinity would indicate that Werpoes probably comprised fewer lodges than Snakapins, on Clasons point, in which more than sixty pits discovered may be taken to have marked the sites of some forty lodges, housing a population which may be assumed to have been about three hundred. As the needs of a group of even half that number involved considerable cultivation of cereals, we may assume that any suitable ground nearby would have been cleared and planted.

The area of City Hall Park would seem to have been naturally and conveniently suited to such a purpose. The land north of the vale which was occupied by the lake was even better suited to such a purpose, and the tract extending above Worth street west of the Bowery, which was that described in 1651 as "the land called Werpoes," and was directly opposite the village-site across the pond, may have been the principal planting-ground that supported the village people. Access to this favored village-site was possible from two directions.