From the same root Winne, Willi, Wirri, Waure, Wule, etc. The name is met in equivalent forms in several places. Wenaque and Wynackie are forms of the name of a beautiful valley in Passaic county, N. J. (Nelson.) Winakaki, " Sassifras land -- rich, fat land." Winak-aki-ng, "At the Sassifras place," was the Lenape name of Eastern Pennsylvania. (See Wanaksink.) Eliot wrote in the Natick (Mass.) dialect, "Wunohke, good land." The general meaning of the root is pleasurable sensation.

* Mattappan, a participle of Mattappu, " he sits down," denotes " a sitting down place," or as generally employed in local names, the end of a portage between two rivers, or from one arm of the sea to another -- where the canoe was launched again and its bearers re-embarked. (Trumbull.) In Lenape Aan is a radical meaning, 'To move ; to go." Paan, "To come ; to get to" ; Wiket-pann, 'To get home" ; Paancep, "Arrived" ; Mattalan, "To come upto some body"; logically, Mattappan, "To stop," to sit down, to land, a landing place.

NAMES ON THE EAST FROM MANHATTAN NORTH. 45

Minnissingh is written as the name of a tract conveyed to Peter Lansing and Jan Smedes by gift deed in 1683. (See Poughkeepsie.) Minnissingh is, apparently, t/he same word tbait is met in Minnisink, Orange County. The locative of the tract has not been ascertained, but it was pretty certainly on the "back" or upper lands. There was no island there. (See Minnisink.) Eaquorisink is of record as the name of Crom Elbow Creek, and Eaquaquanessinck as that of lands on the Hudson, in patent to Henry Beekman, the 'bomidary of wihich ran from the Hudson "east by the side of a fresh meadow called Maiisakin^ and a small run of water called Mancapawimick." In patent to Peter Falconier the land is called Eaquaquaannessinck, the meadow Mansakin, the small creek Nanacopaconick, and Crom Elbow (Krom Elleboog, Dutch, '"crooked e'lbow") Creek.