672 NK\V YORK STATE ML'SKL'M 



Queens County 



List of Sites 



1 Burial sites yielding n skeletons, in the Linnaean garden in 

 Flushing in 1841. All the heads were to the east (Furman). 



2 Burial site was opened on Thomas P. Duryea's farm, a mile 

 from Flushing in 1880. Stone relics were found. 



3 The Matinicocks had large settlements at Flushing, Glen Cove 

 and Cow Harbor. 



4 Village and burial site at College Point on the E. Platt Stratton 

 estate. Skeletons were found in 1861, when excavating for the 

 foundation of Knickerbocker Hall. 



5 Village site and shell heap with relics near Little Neck. 



6 Shell heap at Douglass point. 



7 Burial site near Bayshore Beach (or Van Nostrand) and Little 

 Neck bay. 



8 Village of the Jameco Indians on a creek a mile south of the 

 present village of Jamaica (Thompson, p. 382). 



9 Burial site on the Riker and Titus estates on the Bowery road 

 to Steinway and North Beach. 



10 Shell heap on the Jackson property on Poor Bowery at North 

 Beach. 



11 Village site and shell heap near Hook Creek station on the 

 road to Far Rockaway. 



12 Shell heap at Sanford's point, Astoria, opposite the north end 

 of Blackwells island. There were early and modern relics. 



13 Village site- on the Maspeth hills at the head of Newton creek. 



14 Burial site in Long Island City along Crescent street. 



Rensselaer County 

 List of Sites 



1 An early village site at the mouth of the Hoosic yields " Eski- 

 moan " implements. The site is at the bend on the south side of the 

 Hoosic and on a gentle slope that lies between the road and the hill 

 to the south. 



2 Village site and burial place on the Knickerbocker estate be- 

 tween two small streams on the south side of the Hoosic and west 

 of the road from Reynolds to the river. A. D. Baker says : " In 

 that part of the town known as Old Schaghticoke is a large oak or 

 council tree. Indian villages were located in that vicinity before the 

 Revolution. This tree was annually visited by members of the 



