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

* Dr. Trumbull wrote in the Natick (Mass.) dialect, " Kiissitchuan, -uwan, impersonal verb, 'It flows in a rapid stream,' a current; it continues flowing; as a noun, 'a rapid stream.'" In Cree, Kussehtanne, "Flowing as a stream" In Delaware, -tanne has its equivalent in -hanne. " The impersonal verb termination -awan, -uan, etc., is sometimes written with the participial and subjunctive k (ka or gh.) (Gerard.) The k or gh appears in some forms of Kitchawan. (See Waronawanka.)

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removed to New Jersey," is only correct in a limited sense. The removal was of a single clan or family. The Indians on both sides of the Hudson here were of kindred stock and were largely intermarried. (See Raritans and Pomptons.)

Senasqua, quoted as the name of Teller's Point (now Croton Point), and also as the name of Teller's Neck, is described as "A meadow," presumably on the neck or point. It is an equivalent of Del Lenaskqiial, "Original grass," (Zeisb.), i. e. grass which was supposed to have grown on the land from the beginning. (Heck.) Called "Indian grass" to distinguish it from "Whitemen's grass." ^ Peppeneghek is a record form of the name quoted as that of what is now known as Cross-river.