103. Laaphawachking (Map VII, B). Pelham

Bay park on the Bartow estate. A locality name probably applied to a quite important native site, close to the Shore road or Pelham Bridge road, within the Bartow property now owned by the City of New York. This site, which was discovered and explored by the Rev. W. R. Blackie, for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, gives evidence of considerable size and length of occupancy.

104. Keskaechqueeem or Keskaechqueren

(Map VIII, D). Flatlands. There was a native village at this place, on the site afterward and still occupied by the Dutch church, on Flatbush avenue, near its junction with the King's Highway, old Flatlands Neck road, and the Mill road. There was also a burying-ground. The important position occupied by this station, at the junction of these trails, and its situation in the locality where the famous Council-place was known to exist, seem to indicate it as

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the gathering place known by the native name which denotes a place where public meetings took place. (See Colonial Docs. N. Y., vol. xiv. pp. 14, 36.)

105. Massabarkem or Gravesend (Map VIII,

C). The village established by Lady Deborah Moody and her associated refugees. The acquisition of land conveyed a tract misspelled as above, but ind eating "land by the great water," and probably applied to whatever native settlement existed in the vicinity, such as the planting-grounds at the Indian pond (106). (See Munsell, Hist. Kings Co., p. 18.)