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History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900

Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900. 252 words

Patthunck. -- A personal name; "pounding-mortar." Pachamitt.-- (Van der Donck's map. ) Name of a tribe taken from the place where they lived, "at the turning-aside place." De Laet says : " Visher's Rack, that is the fisherman's a little beyond where projects a bend," and here the eastern bank is inhabited by the Pachami, tribe and place. Pachanu, a sachem, takes his name also from sandy point." found Paunskapham.--A locality in Cortlandt. Probably this on exhaustive search will be a personal name. Pasquasheck.--(Vsm der Donck.) Pasquiasheck, Pashquashic (Pasquesh-auke). "Land at village at the mouth of a a stream ;" an Indian e., "at the outlet ofam . bursting forth," i. the re st . Manhattan Island. Inis of Papirinemen.-- Spuyten Duyvil Creek ; also place at north end name has a verbal termination denoting the act of doing something, a suffix not allowable m divide, « to parcel out,"_ to name denoting n. a personalnie it was probably ine HencePew names. . variation, divert, to place Pechquinakonck.-- (Van der Donck.) A locality in North Salem; probably originally an

Pachquin-ak-onk, " at the land raised or lifted up." Indian village situated on high land. "the chosen-tree," probably a boundPepe-rnightug, in Bedford.all .--A river Pepemighting y. gin n „■■•,-, i ary mark ori Probably a boundary in Bedford. pond and river a Peppeneghak, Yar., Peppenegkek.-- name ; " the chosen stake." like the-- previous mark See Tuckahoe (?). Pockerhoe. not Poningoe.-- Var., Peningoe. Locality in Rye. Looks like a personal name, meaning ascertained.