The pond had other points of access, notably a sandy beach at the promontory near Avenue T, so that the inclusion of the Strome beach, or beaches, in the conveyance of 1664, indicates that the sellers were describing its characteristic features. The name Shanscomacocke appears to be that which is intended to describe this enclosed pond area, and as such was probably the name of the village on its margin.

The marshes "anyway belonging thereto" would have been the extensive tract of

INDIAN NOTES

BOLTON-- INDIAN PATHS

OLD GRAVESEND NECK ROAD TO THE STROME BEACH, AT

ITS TURN SOUTH TOWARD HUGH GERRITSEN'S MILL

AND HOUSE. (STATION 50, MAP VIII, D)

The left foreground when plowed disturbed Indian burials, part of the

native settlement of Shanscomacocke Photograph by D. B. Austin, 1900.

THE CANARSEE

salt meadows on either side of the Strome kill, and the particular reference to "that running out more westerly" points to the great tract between the kill and Shellbank creek, being well described by the name Macutteris, or Moskituash, "a meadow." The "island adjoining," which "is by the ocean sea wholly inclosed," indicates Plumb island, a meadow island which is practically in ocean water. Barren island, or Equendito, which is also contiguous to the tracts of meadow, had been already disposed of by another transaction, in the previous month of April, and on Mill island, also adjoining, the family of Captain John Schenck had been settled for ten years, at Avenue V and East 62d street. We may therefore reasonably presume that the village (50) to which the natives clung, as shown by a later deed, at least* until 1684, was known as Shanscomacocke. The site was then included within the tract known as Makeopaca, which in that year was confirmed to the inhabitants of Gravesend. By this deed, natives of the Gravesend district, who we may assume to have been those still resi-