Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
This line it followed to New Rochelle, through which it passed by Huguenot street, and so by the line of the present Boston post-road, through Mamaroneck to Connecticut. Returning to the village of Eastchester, at the site of the old Schoolhouse Number One, the branch path which united with the Shore path became known as the Eastchester road. In the confirmation of 1666, by Governor Nichols, of the tenure of the Ten Farms of Eastchester, there is a reference to their boundary upon uye now known and common pathway coming up from Westchester." This was the ancient native trail, which connected the settlements on the East • INDIAN PATHS River shore and necks in the southeastern part of the Borough with the Eastchester station and the Shore path (Map VII, B, D).