Bolton translated it from the form, Weicquasguck, " Place of the bark kettle," which is obviously erroneous. Dr, Trumbull wrote: " From Moh. Weegasoegiick, ' the end of the marsh or wet meadow.' " Van der Donck's Wickquaskeek has the same meaning. It is from Lenape Wicqua-askek -- wicqua, "end of," askek, '' swamp," marsh, etc. : -ck, -eck, formative. Pocanteco, Pecantico, Puegkandico and Perghanduck, a stream so called- in Westchester County, was translated by Dr. O'- Callaghan from Pohknnni, "Dark." "The daric river," and by Bolton

' The creek now bearing the name flows to the Hudson through the village of Dobb's Ferry. Its local name, " Wicker's creek," is a corruption of Wickquaske k. Itwas never the name of an individual. 'December ist, 1680, Frederick Phillips petitioned for liberty to purchase " a parcel of land on each side of the creek called by the Indians Pocanteco, * * adjoining the land he hath already purchased; there to build and erect a saw-mill." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 546-)

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from Pockawachne, " A stream between hills," which is certainly erroneous. The first word is probably Pohk or Pdk, root Paken {Pdkemim, "Dark," Zeisb. ; Pohkcn-ahtu, "In darkness," Eliot). The second may stand for antakeu, " Woods," " Forest," and the combination read " The Dark Woods." The stream rises in New Castle township and flows across the town of Mt. Pleasant to the Hudson at Tarrytown, where it is associated with Irving-'s story of Sleepy Hollow. The Dutch called it " Sleeper's-haven Kil," from the name which they gave to the reach on the Hudson, " Verdrietig Hoek," or " Tedious Point," because the hook or point was so long in sight of their slow-sailing vessels, and in calms their crews slept away the hours under its shadows, " Over against the Verdrietig Hoek, commonly called by the name of Sleeper's Haven," is the record.