It has been noted that the line of lower Broadway, which below Park Row is reasonably assumed to have been the successor of a native path, is directed toward the rear of the village at Duane street. By such a route the inhabitants could have made their way directly to the extreme end of their island home. A path undoubtedly led, by the easiest grade and as directly as possible, to East INDIAN PATHS river, where the traffic from Long Island found a landing near the junction of Dover and Cherry streets.

This path probably joined the main pathway near the Municipal Building, and by following the latter northward, the village folk could readily reach their planting-grounds along the Bowery. Werpoes was occupied for no long period of time after the advent of Hudson. If, as would seem most likely, its occupants were those with whom Minuit made his bargain in 1622, supposedly for the entire island, the sale of their home-site resulted in their entire evacuation of the place after that event.