A tract of meadow land "lying slanting to the Dancing Chamber," north of Wappinger's creek, had boundary a creek called Wynogkee.

for

'its

eastern

Schoolcraft defines Pough

signifying safe harbor, from apokeepsing ; but the In early documents the interpretation is open to question.

keepsie. as

name is variously

spelled.

In a deed to Arnot Veil, 1680,

covering the tract, the boundaries are described as

" beginning

at a creek called Pacaksing, by the river side ;" in a petition from

Wm. Caldwell the orthography Myndert Harmense,

it is

Pogkeepke ; in an affidavit by Pokeepsinck ; in other papers the pre is

vailing orthography is Poghkeepke, and finally it is found applied to a pond of water, lying in the vicinity of the city, and its sig

nification given ; or muddy pond, an explanation which accords

with the accepted interpretation of Ramepogh

a simple generic modified ponds, by locality or character. West of Poughkeepsie, and constituting the boundary of the

term

for pond,

or

Veil tract was Matapan

fall or creek. In the geographical mata and of this district terms ma^ matea, frequently occur.

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

Crum Elbow creek was called Equorsink, and the lands ad joining, on the Hudson, Eaquaquanessink ; so given in a patent to Henry Beekman, the bounds of which ran from the Hudson

" east

by side of a fresh meadow called frlansakin and a small

creek

called

conier

and others

Mancapawimi$k" the

In a patent

lands are

called

to

Peter

Fal-