By this deed, natives of the Gravesend district, who we may assume to have been those still resi- INDIAN PATHS dent on the Gerritsen basin village-site, confirmed the sale of the northern part of the area which was included within the township of Gravesend. The bounds of Makeopaca, "a great cleared space," are carefully detailed, and evidently included all of the area within the township (north of the line of the Gravesend Neck road, and of Lake lane) which had not been specifically included in those prior deals by which the site of the village, the Narrioch neck (69), and Mannahanning, or Coney island, had been secured by the white settlers.

Makeopaca began at "the most eastward end of the beach called by the Indians Moeung, or "black miry place," that is, at the head of Harway basin, where the old Beach lane reached Gravesend bay. It extended eastward along the Gravesend Neck road as far as Strome kill, or Gerritsen basin, thus taking in the village-site at that place (50).