The neck was probably an appurtenance of the natives of the Gerritsen Basin station, and its grantor, Guttaquoh, was perhaps the sachem of that settlement. Through these tracts the Gravesend Neck road connected the early settlements of Lady Moody and her companions, with the home and mill of Hugh Gerritsen at the Strome beach. It is so natural a line of travel, though it paralleled the Mechawanienck trail, that it can hardly fail to have been the successor

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VII--NATIVE PATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS (Maps I, and VIII, B)

THE Borough of Queens, which is a part of the one-time county of that name, was added to the Metropolis in 1898. It is a very spacious tract, embracing within its area the old townships of Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica,and part of Hempstead, and the modern industrial district of Long Island City. It is divided from Kings county by a boundary-line drawn between the heads of Mespaetches or Newtown creek and the source of Spring creek, the Hohosboco of the natives. The borough includes the entire tract which was occupied by the Rockaway chieftaincy extending from East river to Jamaica bay. Part of the Matinecock territory is also embraced within the northeastern