History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900
But on the Delaware Paver is a place called Maetsingsing (see Col. Hist. N. Y., Vol. 1, pp. 590, 596), which seems to be a fuller form of our name and warranting another interpretation : " Place where stones are gathered together," a heap of stones, probably. Snakapins.-- Cornell's Neck. If not a personal name, as I suspect, it may represent an earlier Sagajnn, "a ground-nut." Suckehonk.--" A black (or dark colored) place," a marsh or meadow. The Hartford meadows, Connecticut, were called Suck'iang. in Soakatuck. Connecticut.-- A locality in Pelham. " The mouth of a stream." The same as Saugatuck
Suwanoes.-- A tribe located from Norwalk, Conn., to Hellgate. They were the Shawonanoes, " the Southerners," to tribes farther north. "little wolf," a perTammoes sonal name. is. --Creek near Yerplanck's Point. Delaware, Tummeu-esis,
Tanracken.-- A locality in Cortlandt. Tarackan, "the crane." The name was derived from the loud and piercing cry peculiar to the genus, especially to the Grus americana or Whooping Crane, which, says Nuttall, has been "not unaptly compared to the whoop or yell of the savages when rushing to battle." (Trumbull.) Tunkitekes.-- Name of tribe living back of Sing Sing. This is probably a term of derision applied to them by other tribes : " Those of little worth." Tatomuck.-- This name has probably lost a syllable or more. The suffix indicates a « fishOn Long Island Arhata-amuck denotes "a crab fishing-place." Corrupted m to Katawamac. some records ing-place."
Toquams.--Ynv., Toquamske. This was a boundary mark in some conveyance, or else a well known landmark ; p'tukqu-ompsk, "at the round-rock." Titicus.--A brook flowing north and west across the State line into the Croton River ; also An abbreviation of Mutightkoos or Matteticos. a village and postoffice in Connecticut.