Schoolcraft of Noten, Chip., " The wind." " Bounded on the south by Scroton's River " (deed of 1703) ; " Called by the Indians Kightawank, and by the English Knotrus River." (Cal. N. Y, Land Papers, 79.) Titicus, given as the name of a branch of the Croton flowing from Connecticut, is of record Mutighticos and Matightekonks, translated by Dr. Trumbull from Mat'uhtugh-ohke, " Place without wood," from whidh extended to the stream. (See Mattituck and Sackonck. )

Navish is claimed as the name of Teller's (now Crdton) Point, on a reading of the Indian deed of 1683 : " All that parcel, neck or point of land, with the meadow ground or valley adjoining, situate, lying and being on the east side of the river over against Verdrietig's Hooke, commonly called and known by the name '^f Slauper's Haven and by the Indians Navish, the meadow being called by the Indians Senasqua." Clearly, Navish refers to Verdrietig Hook, on the west side of the river, where it is of record. It is an equivalent of A^c^vds (Len.), "promontory." (See Nyackon-the-Hudson.) Nannakans, given as the name of a clan residing on Croton River, is an equivalent of N'arragans (s foreign plural), meaning " People of the point," the locative being Croton Point. (See Nyack.) This clan, crushed by the war of 1643-5, removed to the Raritan country, where, by dialectic exchange of n and r, they were krown as Rarit?.noos, or Narritans. They were represented, in 1649, by Pennekeck, " The chief behind the Kul, having no chief of their own." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii.) The interpretation given tc their removal, by some writers, viz., " That the Wappingers