22 The Story of The Bronx 



"The World's Great Continental Route! 



IN THIRTEEN DAYS EASILY, 



From Europe — by Port Morris — to San Francisco. 



Time and Money saved ! Comfort increased ! 

 From San Francisco — by Port Morris — to Europe, 



EASILY IN THIRTEEN DAYS, 



And can be done in twelve and a half Days. 

 Two hours at Port Morris. " 



This plan is fathered by Charles Stoughton under date of 

 November 4, 1877. 



Adjoining Port Morris on the east, is Oak Point, formerly 

 called Leggett's Point, from a family of the name who owned 

 it from pre-Revolutionary days. Gabriel Leggett, the founder 

 of the family, married into the Richardson family and thus 

 came into possession of this part of the West Farms tract. 



The neck to the west of the Bronx River is called Hunt's 

 Point, after the proprietor of 1688. It really consists of two 

 points, the more westerly one being called Barretto's Point, 

 after Francis Barretto, a wealthy New York merchant who 

 settled here about 1840. The Indian name of Hunt's Point 

 was Quinnahung, which means "a long, high place." 



The neck between the Bronx River and Wilkins's Creek is 

 known as Cornell's Neck, after the proprietor of 1646. Its 

 extremity is called Clason's Point, after a later owner. Its 

 Indian name was Snakapins, probably a personal name, or, 

 perhaps, a corruption of Sagapin, a ground nut, or of Chinca- 

 pin, the dwarf chestnut. Castle Hill Neck is the next point 

 to the eastward. On the eastern side of Westchester Creek 

 is Ferris Neck, so called after the family who owned it; its 

 extremity is called "Old Ferry Point," from the ferry that 



