See 15th Annual Report American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.

3. RECHTAUCEorRECHTANCK (Maps II; VIII,

A). A village-site on Corlears hook, on Manhattan island. Natives who had

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taken refuge there were massacred by Dutch soldiery at the order of Governor William Kieft, 1643. The most natural position for such a station was near a fresh- water pond and brook at the present Jefferson, Henry, Clinton, and Madison streets, facing south on an open beach on East river.

4. Sapohanikan (Maps II; VIII, A). A

station, but probably no more than a landing and trading place, utilized as the nearest convenient point of access to Hoboken, when peltries and goods were brought by the Hackensack for barter. It was situated on the shore of the slight indentation of the river-front between Betrmne and Horatio streets, in what is now "Greenwich Village."

5. Rechewanis (Map IV). Reche was point ,

Montagnes point, "Little Sand Stream." The tract of marsh and upland extending south of Harlem kill to 91st street as far west as Fifth avenue, to Hellgate bay, on East river. This was the home district of Rechewac, chief of the Reckgawawanc, and was occupied by him and his people until 1669. It probably included a native village known as Konaande Kongh.

6. Ranachqua (Map VII, C). The tract

purchased of the sachem Rechewac and others by Jonas Bronck in 1639, and by him renamed "Emmaus." The name probably applied also to a native station of which traces have been found around