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Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis

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Throgs neck (Map VII, D). A native site is indicated by burials which have been disturbed at St Raymond's cemetery on the Throgs Neck road. 103. Laaphawachking (Map VII, B).

Pelham Bay park on the Bartow estate. A locality name probably applied to a quite important native site, close to the Shore road or Pelham Bridge road, within the Bartow property now owned by the City of New York. This site, which was discovered and explored by the Rev.

W. R. Blackie, for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, gives evidence of considerable size and length of occupancy. 104.

Keskaechqueeem or Keskaechqueren (Map VIII, D). Flatlands. There was a native village at this place, on the site afterward and still occupied by the Dutch church, on Flatbush avenue, near its junction with the King's Highway, old Flatlands Neck road, and the Mill road. There was also a burying-ground.