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Title: Footprints of the red men. Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ruttenber, Edward Manning, 1825-1907
Subjects: Indians of North America -- New York Names, Indian -- North America Names, Geographical -- New York (State)
Publisher: (Newburgh, N.Y., Newburgh journal print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nuck sachem had either residence or jurisdiction here, nor ishis name signed to any deed in this district. The reading in onerecord, Three stripes or strips of land, seems to indicate thatthe name was descriptive of the necks or strips of land. (SeeWaumaniuck.) Waumaniuck and Maumaniuck, forms of the name of recordas that of the eastern part of De Lanceys Neck, or Seamans Point,Westchester County, as stated in the Indian deed of 1661, which con-veyed to one John Richbell three necks of land, described asBtounded on the east by Mamaroneck River, and on the west yGravelly or Stony Brook (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 5), the lat-ter by the Indians called Pockotesse-wacke, oame to be known asMamaraneck Neck, otlierwisc described as The great neck of landat Mamaroneck. Pockotessewacke, given as the name of what came to be known Mamarranack and Waupaurin, chiefs of Kitchawanuck. (Col. Hist.N. Y., xiii, 17.) The Kitchawan is now known as Croton river. It has noconnection whatever with Mamaroneck.
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NAMES ON THE EAST FROM MANHATTAN NORTH. 35 as Gravelly or Stony Brook, and Beaver-meadow Brook, ^has been translated by Wm. R. Gerard, from Petuk-assin-icke,where there are numerous round stones ; a place from whichthe name was extended to the stream, or the name of a place in thestream where there were numerous round stones, /. e. paving stonesor hard-heads. Esse (esseni) from assin, stone, means stony,flinty. Manuketesuck, quoted by Bolton (Hist. West, Co.) as the nameof Long Island Sound and interpreted, Broad flowing river, wasmore correctly explained by Dr. Trumbull: Apparently a dimin-utive of Manunkatcsuck, Menhaden country, from Miinongutteau,that which fertalizes or manures land, the Indian name for whitefish or bony fish, which were taken in great numbers by the Indians,on the shores of the Sound, for manuring their corn lands. Moharsic is said to have been the name of what is now knownas Crom-pond, in the town of Yorktown. The pond is in two parts,and the name may mean, Whe

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