This place is said to have been the site of a buryingground to which the natives brought their dead from the interior country. There are deposits of shells and scattered native objects along the shores of the point, indicating native occupancy. The probable site of the burial place is a mound facing Morris cove on the border of the marsh at the foot of the Ferris estate. The place is in full sight of Castle hill (9).

11. Locust point (Map VII, D). Wrights

island or neck on Throgs neck. Along the shore-line native objects indicate its former occupancy, probably as summer fishing places. Locust point, distinguished by a cluster of locust trees, is now under water at high-tide.

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INDIAN PATHS

12. Weir creek (Map VII, D). On Throgs

neck. An important native station situated on the shore at the mouth of the creek, on the Brown estate, near a small spring of fresh water. Its name is not recorded, but the site was in use by the Siwanoy after their contact with white men. It has been carefully explored by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

13. Bear swamp (Map VII, C). The site of

a native village at Downings brook, on the present Bear Swamp road. This village, the name of which is not recorded, was probably a principal station of the Siwanoy of the Bronx district, as they continued to occupy it until 1782.

14. Jeffreys hook (Map I). Manhattan

Island, on the east bank of the Hudson, the modern Fort Washington point. A fishing station, evidenced by deposits of shells and charcoal, and by arrows found among the rocks on the beaches. Several rock-shelters and camp-sites also have been traced along the riverside as far south as 158th street.