Between Gallatin place and Elm place, where the old path diverged from its course somewhat to the southwest, would appear to have been the most likely position of this station, which bore the name and was doubtless the headquarters of the chieftaincy.

On Fulton street at Hoyt street, there was established in later years the village cemetery, possibly succeeding native interments in favorable soil. The path here swerved slightly to the west toward the cemetery site.

The Dutch Church was built on the east side of the line of the trail, and then the highway was opened on its eastern side, making the church plot an "island between two parts of the road."

There was another station in the vicinity

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of old Brooklyn of which more definite record is available. It is that which was known as Werpos (67) or Worpus, a name similar to that of the Manhattan village at the Kalch Hoek. Its position seems to have been in the immediate vicinity of the old dwelling of Fredrick Lubbersen, which was situated at Warren and Hoyt streets, in the old Tenth ward of Brooklyn. This dwelling was erected at the head of the branch of Gowanus creek which penetrated nearest to the village of Marechkawick and to the early white settlement which became its successor. The grant, which was dated 27 May, 1640, comprised "a certain piece of land upon the Long Island near Marechkawingh about Werpos, reaching in breadth from the kil and valley that come from Gowanes N. W. by N. and from the strand on the East River S. E. by E., 1700 paces of three feet each, and in length from the head of the aforesaid kil N. E. by E., and S. W. by W. to the Red Hook, under the express condition that if the savages shall voluntarily give up the maize land in the aforesaid piece, Fredrick Lub-