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

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the site of the one-time Gouverneur Morris mansion at Cypress avenue and 131st street.

7. Quinnahung (Maps VII, C, D). The

Great Planting Neck, the modern Hunts point. Several sites around this favored locality are marked by native debris: (1) Around the site of the one-time house of the Richardson family, particularly about the spring nearby, near the old Hunt burial-ground. (2) On the Dickey estate on the Hunts Point road at Randall avenue. (3) On a mound surrounded by marsh-lands on the line of Eastern boulevard, if extended: (4) At the extremity of the point, in front of the site of the one-time Hunt mansion.

8. Snakapins (Map VII, D). A native

village, the name of which was recorded, of extensive character, situated on a tract of sloping ground on the west side of the present Soundview avenue, where it is intersected by Leland avenue. The site was covered by about sixty lodges. In the vicinity, south of the village, there was probably an extensive plantingground. Fishing stations were situated along the shore, and at Clasons point. The site was explored by Alanson Skinner for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, in 1918.