The reading in one record, "Three stripes or strips of land," seems to indicate that the name was descriptive of the necks or strips of land. (See Waumaniuck.) Waumaniuck and Maumaniuck, forms of the name of record as that of the eastern part of De Lancey's Neck, or Seaman's Point, Westchester County, as stated in the Indian deed of 1661, which conveyed to one John Richbell "three necks of land," described as "Btounded on the east by Mamaroneck River, and on the west y Gravelly or Stony Brook" "(Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 5), the latter by the Indians called Pockotesse-wacke, oame to be known as Mamaraneck Neck, otlierwisc described as "The great neck of land at Mamaroneck." Pockotessewacke, given as the name of what came to be known

'"Mamarranack and Waupaurin, chiefs of Kitchawanuck." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 17.) The Kitchawan is now known as Croton river. It has no connection whatever with Mamaroneck.

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as "Gravelly or Stony Brook," and "Beaver-meadow Brook," ^ 'has been translated by Wm. R. Gerard, from "Petuk-assin-icke, 'where there are numerous round stones' " ; a place from which the name was extended to the stream, or the name of a place in the stream where there were numerous round stones, /. e. paving stones or "hard-heads." Esse (esseni) from assin, "stone," means "stony, flinty." Manuketesuck, quoted by Bolton (Hist. West, Co.) as the name of Long Island Sound and interpreted, "Broad flowing river," was more correctly explained by Dr. Trumbull : "Apparently a diminutive of Manunkatcsuck, 'Menhaden country,' from Miinongutteau, 'that which fertalizes or manures land,' the Indian name for white fish or bony fish, which were taken in great numbers by the Indians, on the shores of the Sound, for manuring their corn lands." Moharsic is said to have been the name of what is now known as Crom-pond, in the town of Yorktown.