The site of the present town of Orangetown was called the Narrasunck lands as late as 1769, a name which probably has its signification in na and unk, " good land." Verdrietig hook, or Tedious point, as the Dutch called it from the fact that it was generally so long in sight from their slowsailing sloops, was called ^uaspeck, from qusuk, a stone. " small rivulet called Opposite Anthony's Nose, was a by ye Indians Assinnapink" or ct the stream from the solid rocks."

South of this rivulet was Tongapogb kil, and north of it Pooploop's kil,

the latter apparently the name of an Indian owner.

milk

falls

were

called

the

their ownership by a prince of

Prince's

" the

falls,

Butter

evidently

from

people of the hill country."

Plum point, north of the Highlands, was called Cowonham's hill, and the rocky island lying opposite, Polebers island, which has been corrupted into PallopePs island, and invested with a

Dutch tradition which is not its own. That which has been known as the Murderer's creek, from a period anterior to Van der Donck's of (1656), enters the Hudson at Cornwall, and

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New Netberland originally formed

the starting point for the line which divided the counties of

and

Ulster.

That

its

ijame was derived

Orange

from some unex-

HUDSON RIPER INDUNS.

plained

event

or

on the

hostile action

part of the Waoranecks appears to be conclusively established from the fact that it was applied to it only until it reached the castle of that chieftaincy on the north spur of Schunemunk mountain, about seven miles from its mouth. Tradition affirms in explanation, that