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-

Eaquaquannessinck,

meadow Mamakin, the small creek Nancapaconick, and the Crum Elbow Eaquarysink. The boundary line of the

the

" Great Nine Partners

patent''

" at the creek

began

called

by the Indians Aquasing and by the Christians Fish creek." The Christians spoken of made free use of the word Fish,

no

less

given

than three streams emptying

that

The

name.

however, is not involved

into the

Hudson being

of

Indian

signification in

the Dutch

the

designations.

name, In this

Roeloff case Aquasing apparently indicates stony, from qusuk. kil and the line the Mohicans was between Jansen's dividing the Wappingers, a fact which has not only been already stated but

which the reader will recognize in the change in dialect shown The creek was called Sankpenak. in the geographical terms. In the Livingston patent, of which it formed the southern boundary, the names of a number of localities are given, and, in some cases, their signification. In his first purchase were " three or tracts of u flat lands" called

Nekankook, planes" tc a Kickua, and Wicquaskaka, lying on the Hudson between small creek or kil" lying over against Katskill, called Wackanhasiack, and a place called by the Indians