the Chancery of New Jersey," etc., New York, 1747.) IX— PATHS IN NEARBY NEW JERSEY (Maps I; VIII, A; X) A STUDY of the system of Indian paths in the Metropolis would be incomplete without consideration of those traversing the contiguous territory on the west side of the waters of the bay and of the great estuary of the Hudson. Staten Island, which is substantially a part of that territory, has already been considered, and is found to have had an extensive occupancy, composed of natives owing allegiance to several chieftaincies.

The narrow waterway that divided the island from the mainland on the west and north formed no tribal boundary. We find that the natives of the island held title on the west to a large part of the area of the towns of Woodbridge, Linden, and Elizabeth, and that those on the north were in close communication with their fellow 197 INDIAN PATHS tribesmen of the Hackensack who were resident on Bergen neck.

That promontory, bearing a singular topographical resemblance to Manhattan, evidently had superior attractions as a place from which the pursuit of oystering and fishing could be carried on.