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Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis

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A station, but probably no more than a landing and trading place, utilized as the nearest convenient point of access to Hoboken, when peltries and goods were brought by the Hackensack for barter. It was situated on the shore of the slight indentation of the river-front between Betrmne and Horatio streets, in what is now "Greenwich Village." 5. Rechewanis (Map IV).

Reche was point, Montagnes point, "Little Sand Stream." The tract of marsh and upland extending south of Harlem kill to 91st street as far west as Fifth avenue, to Hellgate bay, on East river. This was the home district of Rechewac, chief of the Reckgawawanc, and was occupied by him and his people until 1669. It probably included a native village known as Konaande Kongh. 6.

Ranachqua (Map VII, C). The tract purchased of the sachem Rechewac and others by Jonas Bronck in 1639, and by him renamed "Emmaus." The name probably applied also to a native station of which traces have been found around INDIAN PATHS the site of the one-time Gouverneur Morris mansion at Cypress avenue and 131st street. 7. Quinnahung (Maps VII, C, D). The Great Planting Neck, the modern Hunts point.