Its area is illustrated in Map IX. Native occupancy extended over a considerable space on the western side of the basin. The water supply was provided by a good spring which is still running, and a broad and very fertile tract of farm land extends west of the site of the village which may be identified as the Indian Shanscomacocke.

Mashanscomacocke, "a much enclosed place," was the name of a tract in the vicinity of Flatlands, which was sold in 1664 by natives (pi. xxii). It included features that identify it as the Gerritsen Basin station. "Upland and marshes, anyway belonging thereto, as the Strawn [Strome] Beach or Beaches, as namely that running out more westerly, with the Island adjoining, and is at the same time by the ocean sea wholly inclosed, called hoopaninak and Shanscomacocke, and Macutteris." The situation of the tracts included in the sale are evidently in the vicinity of the Strome beach.

Now, the beach at the Strome kill, which is situated at the mill-dam, was an important feature of the INDIAN PATHS locality. It was particularly dedicated to public use, and the Gravesend Neck road extended to it (pi. xxm, xxiv).