be made with tolerable

From these sources the following classifications are

accuracy. mainly derived

:

The chieftaincies of the MONTAUKS were ist. The Carnarsees, who claimed the lands now included in

I.

the

:

county of Kings, and a part of the

Dans-Kammer point.

"There being no previous survey to the

grants, their boundaries are expressed with

much uncertainty, by the Indian names of brooks, rivulets, hills, ponds, falls of

water,

etc.,

town of Jamaica.

which were and

still

are

Somevery few Christians. times the grant is of the land that belonged to such an Indian by name, or is

known

to

bounded by such an Indian's land, but to

OF HUDSON'S RWER.

Their principal village was about the site of the village of Flatwhere there is a place which still retains the name of This Canarsee, and was, perhaps, the residence of the sachem. lands,

chieftaincy was pf considerable power in 1643, when it stood at the head of the Long Island tribes who were engaged in the

war with the Dutch.

Penhawitz was the first sachem known

by whom he was styled the Great Sachem of The names of the chiefs in 1670, as given in a

to the Dutch,

Canarsee.

deed for the site of the present city of Brooklyn, were Peter, Elmohar, Job, Makagiquas, and Shamese. 2d.

The Rockaways^ who were scattered over the southern

part of the town of Hempstead,

which, with a part of Jamaica and the whole of Newtown, constituted the bounds of their