Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
which the path passed. It relates to a dispute be- tween the towns of Newark and Elizabeth as to their respective boundaries, and is evidently the work of some surveyor INDIAN PATHS acquainted with the historical side of the subject, as it records not only the boundaries but the dates and even some of the native names of the tracts purchased from the natives dwelling in the territory between Raritan and Passaic rivers, and from Staten Island to the Cushetonk hills.
One of the most important boundary lines was the Minisink path, which traverses the region between the two rivers above mentioned, and was used as the western boundary of the earliest native conveyance, comprising that tract contiguous to Staten Island from Amboy to Elizabeth, which it states was "claimed by the Indians of Staten Island" and was sold by them in 1664.