Probably it was a station, and its plantinggrounds were extended over the same tract that afterward formed the garden. A mile to the east, on the Duryea farm, objects of native manufacture evidenced the presence of the Indians. The Flushing station appears to have been the headquarters at one time of the leading sachem of this part of Long Island, for in 1664 Tackapoosa.

INDIAN NOTES BOROUGH OF son and survivor of the great Mechowodt, the Ancient One, was resident there. The Matinecock were at one time numerous, and their villages and contiguous cultivated fields were scattered all over the territory they occupied, but disease and warfare so reduced their number that their planting land became waste and their homes were abandoned. The line of Broadway was evidently a natural line of travel between their Flushing settlement and their stations on the North shore.

Armbruster states that at the time of the arrival of the first white settlers an Indian trail existed where now Broadway runs. At Little Neck (122), within the boundary of the borough, the path passed a native station and burial-ground.