There was a deed of November 22, 1652, by Seisen and Mattano to Cornells Van Werckhoven for New Utrecht land "stretching from behind Mr. Paulus' land, called Gouwanis, across the hills to Mechawanienck, lying on the southeast side of Amersfoort and thence past Gravesend to the sea following the marks on the trees." This conveyance included all Bay Ridge and New Utrecht to the Gravesend line. Seisen was the same chieftain of Marechkawick who in 1637 sold Blackwells island. Mattano was chief of Nayack at the date of this deed, having succeeded Meijeterma after 1649.

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INDIAN PATHS

That the Nayack natives who were the original owners of lower Manhattan were related to the Marechkawick Indians, is made evident not only by their removal to this territory, but by the joint action of their chiefs in this sale, and by the appearance, nineteen years later, of the sachem, Maganwetinnemin, as the representative "for the tribe of Marychkenwingh and for Nayack."

From these evidently close relations it is assumable that the Manhattan natives were Canarsee, and that their superiors or rulers were the sachems of the Brooklyn and Flatlands communities. We may even trace in Meijeterma who led the Manhattans of Nayack prior to 1649, and in Seyseys who ruled the Canarsee in .1637, the probable leading participants in that momentous sale in 1622, of the site of the future Great Metropolis.

INDIAN NOTES

VII.-- NATIVE PATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS

(Maps I, and VIII, B)

THE Borough of Queens, which is a part of the one-time county of that name, was added to the Metropolis in 1898. It is a very spacious tract, embracing within its area the old townships of Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, and part of Hempstead, and the modern industrial district of Long Island City. It is divided from Kings county by a boundary-line drawn between the heads of Mespaetches or Newtown creek and the source of Spring creek, the Hohosboco of the natives.