considered, and is found to have had an extensive occupancy, composed of natives owing allegiance to several chieftaincies. The narrow waterway that divided the island from the mainland on the west and north formed no tribal boundary. We find that the natives of the island held title on the west to a large part of the area of the towns of Woodbridge, Linden, and Elizabeth, and that those on the north were in close communication with their fellow

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198 INDIAN PATHS tribesmen of the Hackensack who were resident on Bergen neck. That promontory, bearing a singular topographical resemblance to Manhattan, evidently had superior attractions as a place from which the pursuit of oystering and fishing could be carried on. A considerable settlement existed at Constable point (71), and there was a fishing station on the opposite side of the point, near the Central Railroad tracks on the shore of Newark bay. Constable point was practically an island separated from Bayonne by a wide tract of marsh with watercourses extending from Centerville to the Kill van Kull. At Gamoenepa (118), the modernized form of which name is Communipaw, a Hackensack station was continued up to Colonial times, situated upon the point of dry land which there extended into the waters of the Upper bay, directly opposite the extremity of Manhattan Island. Another station, whose existence is marked in our city's history by the black record of the indiscriminate slaughter of its occupants in 1643, was Aressick, or

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