This is true of city are laid out upon to the the Indian paths Park, where Broadway from the battery forked, one running east to Chatham square, and the other This would lead to Warpoes by west to Tivoli garden, etc. At or beyond paths on the east and west side of the kolck.

Warpoes the paths again forked, one leading to Sappokanikan on the Hudson, and the other to Nagbtognk or Corlear's hook. The island was not a place of permanent abode of the Indians, but was only occupied during certain seasons. It was sold to Minuet, the first director-general of the Holland government, was then estimated to contain about twenty-two

in 1624, and

The price paid to the Indians was sixty guild

thousand acres.

ers, or about twenty-four dollars.

Staten island bears different names in different deeds. the deed to

Michael Pauw,

in

and

in that

to Capellen, in

1655, Eghquaous.

that

it

1631,

was called Monocknong, and

is

In

called Matawucks,

DeVries says the clan occupying it

The deed to Capellen states that it was jointly

were Monatons.

owned by

that

it

the Raritans and

the

Hackinsacks.

Governor's

island was called by the Indians, Pagganck ; Bedloe's island, Minnisais ; Ellis' island, Kiosbk; and Blackwell's island, Minna-

" at the " the island island," or kanock, the latter signifying ct The word is a compound of Menahan, an island, home." and uck, locality." (O' Callaghan).

On

the point of land now occupied by Fort Schuyler is lo cated a tradition which Judge Benson relates in his Memoirs