The son, Hugh, and his mother, were granted 1500 acres of land " At a place called John Peaches creek." No fees were charged for the patent out of respect for the memory of Major MacGregorie, as he then had " lately died in His Majesty's service in defence of the Province." (Doc. Hist. N. Y-, ii, 364.) MacGregories sold to Van Cortlandt in 1696. ' Peake, an orthography of Peak, English; Dutch, Piek; pronounced Pek (e as e in wet) ; English, Pek or Peck.

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of the settlement. The Indian name of the stream is noted, in deed of 1695, "Called by the Indians Paquintiik," probably an equivalent of Pokqueiintuk, "A broad, open place in a tidal river or estuary." Peekskill Bay was probably referred to. (See Sackonck.) Kittatinny, erroneously claimed to mean " Endless hills," and to describe the Highlands as a continuation of the Alleghany range, belongs to Anthony's Nose/ to which, however, it has no very early record application. It is from Kitschi, "Principal, greatest," and -atinny, "Hill, mountain," applicable to any principal mountain peak compared with others in its vicinity.' Sacrahung, or Mill River, "takes its name from Sacra, 'rain.' Its liability to freshets after heavy rains, may have given origin to the name." (O'Callaghan.) Evidently, however, the name is a corruption of Sakzcihiing (Zeisb.), "At the mouth of the river." The record reads, "A small brook or run called Wigwam brook, but by some falsely called Sackwrahung." (Deed of 1740.) Quinnehung, a neck of land at the mouth and west side of Bronx River, is presumed to have been the name of Hunter's Point. The adjectival Quinneh, is very plainly an equivalent of Quinnih (Eliot), "long," and -ung or -ongh may stand for place -- "A long place, or neck of land." (See Aquchung.) Sackonck and Matightekonck, record names of places petitioned for by Van Cortlandt in 1697, are located in general terms, in the petition, in the neighborhood of John Peak's Creek and Anthony's Nose. (Cal.