Direct communication was doubtless well established between the residents in these large settlements and those of their kinsfolk living near the waters of the Sound, by passing through Jamaica, and thence north on the line of the Flushing road, which within Flushing is now known as Jamaica avenue. The settlement at Jamaica seems to have been occupied by a clan of natives who are thought to have been subordinate to the Rockaway, perhaps survivors of a prior INDIAN PATHS tribe of occupants.

Their village was near the Beaver pond which once existed at the intersection of the Rockaway road and South street. From the pond a "beaver path" led to the lodges. The exact location of the latter has not been recorded, but it would seem likely to have been at the intersection of the important paths which met at Flushing avenue and Fulton street.

In the town of Flushing (53) some traces of native occupancy have been recorded. There was a tract on the north side of Broadway, cultivated in the eighteenth century as a horticultural establishment, which was known as the Linnsean gardens. Within this area skeletons were uncovered indicating its use as a burying-ground.