Those of the personal names bestowed on places are noted especially difficult to analyze, owing to their construction and the changes already and Many of the place names were translated many years ago by Schoolcraft, Trumbull, so erroothers, some correctlv, and others more often incorrectly. Some of the latter were are neous that thev have' been passed by the writer without notice. The present attempts not the based upon the comparative rules of Algonquian nomenclature, and are therefore and Schoolcraft by used often so hasty generalization of misapplied Chippeway root terms 1 Recently adopted by the Bureau of Ethnology.

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

of the localities where followed by others The names mostly are descriptive appellations do not differ from those retained in other parts of the counand as such originally was spoken. the same language try where bestowed, s Creek, Eastchester ,lco»efco!mc£ -- Var., 4<?ueanowncfc, Achqueehgeuom. Hutchinson are quite numerous. Creek, and a locality in West Farms. The variations of this term . See Aquehung, another variant. Delaware, A chwowdngeu, "high bank." in 1844, is Alipkonck.--«A place of elms." This interpretation, given by Schoolcraft and b as well as w, and / of probably correct. Allowing for the interchange or permutation anibi, « elm p, occurring in many dialects, we find its parallel in the Otchipwe Anip, Abnaki, tree," which with the locative completes the analysis. ihe Budd s .Neck, m Rye. tpawquammis.-- Var., ^awammeis, /Ipawami's, Epawames. TOS, " the stock or trunk ot a tree main stem of this name. Appoqua, signifies « to coyer;" tree, and used a generic, heme -the covering tree." possibly a descriptive term for the lurch -- Var.s Apparaghpogh. Lands near Verplanck's Point, also a locality the with east ** AppamaghpTgT Cortlandt. The main stem of this term is the same as that in the previous name, of place a i.e., water-place," covering (lodge) -The pond." « or suffix paug, - a water-place " covering the cat-tail Hag ( Typha latifolia) was cut.