This site, which was discovered and explored by the Rev. W. R. Blackie, for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, gives evidence of considerable size and length of occupancy. 104. Keskaechquerem or Keskaechqueren (Map VIII, D). Flatlands. There was a native village at this place, on the site afterward and still occupied by the Dutch church, on Flatbush avenue, near its junction with the King's Highway, old Flatlands Neck road, and the Mill road. There was also a burying-ground. The important position occupied by this station, at the junction of these and its situation in the locality trails, where the famous Council-place was known to exist, seem to indicate it as

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the gathering place known by the native name which denotes a place where public meetings took place. (See Colonial Docs. N. Y., vol. xrv. pp. 14, 36.) 105. Massabarkem or Gravesend (Map VIII, C). The village established by Lady Deborah Moody and her associated refugees. The acquisition of land conveyed a tract misspelled as above, but ind eating "land by the great water," and probably applied to whatever native settlement existed in the vicinity, such as the planting-grounds at the Indian pond (106). (See Munsell, Hist. Kings Co., p. 18.) 106. The Indian pond (Map VIII, C). A pond of fresh water, situated at the locality now known as Marlboro, around which the natives had a cultivated tract. The pond has long retained its name, appearing on modern maps. 107. New Utrecht (Map VIII, C). Probable site ofa nat ve station, perhaps the home of Chippahig, who had sold lands which on their eastern bounds touched the western line of Gravesend at the Indian pond. There was a native path extending from the main path through the site of New Utrecht, which ran to the beach at Gravesend bay.