Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
so that all the important native settlements are found to have been established around the shores, and only in a few places were small stations located inland. The native ownership of the borough was divided, its residents being members of several chieftaincies, who were settled upon that part of the coast contiguous to their mainland relatives, those on the north being the Hackensack and possibly the Tappan, those on the west and at the southern extremity the Raritan, and on the east and possibly in some inland positions, the natives of Nayack, those onetime residents of Manhattan who removed to Fort Hamilton.
As these were all" of Unami-Delaware affinity, they appear to have lived in amicable relations and to have had a well-recognized right and title to their share in the ownership of the little island.