The native ownership of the borough was divided, its residents being members of several chieftaincies, who were settled upon that part of the coast contiguous to their mainland relatives, those on the north being the Hackensack and possibly the Tappan, those on the west and at the southern extremity the Raritan, and on the east and possibly in some inland positions, the natives of Nayack, those onetime residents of Manhattan who removed to Fort Hamilton. As these were all" of Unami-Delaware affinity, they appear to have lived in amicable relations and to have had a well-recognized right and title to their share in the ownership of the little island.

Favored by nature as it was, and situated in so commanding a position, the island unfortunately attracted the cupidity of the white man, and his usual process of expropriation of its unhappy" tenantry

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took place, marked with injustice and treachery that resulted in a bloody tragedy of fifty years, culminating in the complete dismissal of the remnant of its native population in 1670. Perhaps the animosity thus created and continued, and at any rate the contempt of the early settlers for all native subjects, led to the abandonment of the Indian names of their numerous stations, since none of them have been preserved, and their location has been decided only by the persistent efforts of interested archeologists. Similar neglect befell the native paths or trails that must have connected these friendly settlements, and we are left to conjecture their courses by consideration of the location of the native stations and their physical surroundings.