Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
A native station, indicated by shell-deposits and a few objects, on the shore of East river, at Ravenswood Park, near the creek which is recorded as bearing this name. 112. Minnahanonck (Map VIII, B). Blackwells island.
The island was owned and perhaps occupied by natives of the Marechkawick or Brooklyn chieftaincy. 113. Pagganck (Maps II; VIII, A). Nutten island, Nut island, now Governors island.
Owned and probably occupied by natives of the Marechkawick chieftaincy. 114. Aressick, or Paulus hook (Maps II; VIII, A). A native village was INDIAN NOTES INDEX TO situated on this favorable promontory, which was acquired from the occupants by Director Kieft in 1638.
It has a dramatic interest as the scene of the bloody massacre of its unfortunate inhabitants by the Dutch soldiery in. 1643. 115. Harsimus, or Ahasimus (Maps II; VIII, A). Site of a native village on the Jersey side of Hudson river, - between Paulus hook (114) and Hoboken (116).