The old Throgs Neck road extending from the Westchester bridge is a natural line of travel, and passes directly to a site (102) on St Raymond's cemetery near the Eastern boulevard, where excavations for interments have from time to time disturbed shell-pits, indicating an Indian settlement.

A trail could readily have been formed from this point, passing eastward over the upper part of Weir creek near the Town Dock road, which would lead to the site (12) of the Siwanoy village at the mouth of Weir creek (pi. x, xi). This ancient site is described in the publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.19

It is probable that several other places on Throgs neck were occupied by the natives, one being indicated by shells and stone

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artifacts at Adees point, opposite the Weir creek station, and another (11) on Locust point, probably no more than a fishing camp, as it is without nearby water supply. The most important place on the east side of Westchester creek, however, was that known to the early settlers as "Burial point" (10), a place situated, but as yet unexplored, somewhere on the shore of Morris cove, near Old Ferry point.

Upon the point several places, by the presence of shell-beds and by fragments of weapons, evidence the native occupancy of the promontory. It would be most probable that a trail would have led directly from the St Raymond's cemetery site by way of the Eastern boulevard and Ferris road, directly to Burial point, to which it is related that the Siwanoy of the entire district were wont to bring their dead for interment.20