A native fishing and oystering station evidently existed at 121st street, on the line of Pleasant avenue (or Avenue A), which probably bore the local name. 99. Shepmoes (Map VIII, A). At east 14th street, probably near Second avenue, there was a small station or plantation, which may have been named from some nearby brook.

(Colonial Docs. N. Y., vol. xiv, p. 110.) 100.

Tubby hook (Maps I, V). At this point, extending into the Hudson river at Dyckman street, there was a very ancient station, the extensive deposits of debris being located on the shore of the "Little Sand bay," on the south side of Dyckman street. It was recently explored by Alanson Skinner for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. 101.

Jameco (Tooker), Chamakou (Armbruster) (Map I). The modern Jamaica. A native settlement seems to have existed near the Beaver pond, whence the name of the locality was derived, "yemacah" denoting the beaver, according to INDIAN PATHS Tooker.

Armbruster considers the name to be that of a small tribe of survivors of original natives of Long Island, overcome by the Canarsee. "The beaver path" led from the native village to the pond. 102.