Y.) as the name of Wappingers' Creek -- authority not cited and place w'here the stream was so called not ascertained. The initial W was probably exchanged for M by mishearing, as it was in many cases of record. Mall means "To mee't," Amhannes means "A small river," and the suffix -iug is locative. The composition reads : "A place where streams come together," which may have been on the Hudson at the mouth of the creek. In Philadelphia Moyamansing was the name of a marsh bounded by four small streams. (N. Y. Land Papers, 646.) Dr. Trumbull in his " Indian Names on the Connecticut," quoted Mahinansiick (Moh.), in Connecticut, with the explanation, "Where two streams come together." The name was extended to the creek as customary in such cases. The Wahamanesing flows from Stissing- Pond, in northern Duchess County, and follows the center of a narrow belt of limesitone its entire length of about thirty-five miles southwest to the Hudson, wdiich it reaches in a curve and passes over a picturesque fall of seventy-five feet to an estuary. From early Dutch occupation it has been known or called Wappinck (1645), Wappinges and Wappingers' Kill or creek, taking that name presumably from the clan which was seated upon it of record as "Wappings, Wappinges, Wapans, or Highland Indians." ^ On Van der Donck's map three castles or villages of the

^ Nawaas, on the Connecticut, noted on the Carte Figurative of 1614-16, is very distinctly located at a point on the head-waters of that river. Neversink is a corruption of Ncwas-ink, "At the point or promontory." ' "Highland Indians" was a designation employed by the Dutch as well as by the English. (Col. Hist. N. Y., viii, 440.)