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