"to a place opposite Sagertyes Kil, called Saaskahampka." The stream is now known as Livingston's Creek. ^ Wachanekassik, Indian deed to Livingston, 1683 ; Waghankasick, patent to Van Rensselaer, 1649, ^^'d other ortliographies, is written as the name of a small creek which marked the place of beginning of the northwest boundmark of the Livingston Patent and the place of ending of the southwest boundmark O'f the prior Van Rensselaer Patent of Claverack. The latter reads ; " * * And so along the said Hudson River southward to the south side of Vastrix Island, by a creek called Waghankasick, thence easterly to Wawanaquasik," etc. The deed to Livingston conveyed lands "On both sides of Roelof Jansen's Kill,- called by the Indians Saulchenak," including lands "along the river's bank from said Roeloft" Jansen's Kill, northwards up, to a small stream opposite CatskiU named Wachanekasseck, and southwards down the river to opposite the Sagertjes Kill, called by the Indians Saaskahampka." In the Livingston Patent of 1684: "Eighteen hundred acres of woodland lying between a small creek or kill lying over against Catskill called Wachanakasseck and a place called Suaskahampka," and in patent of 1686: "On the north by a line to be drawn from a certain creek or kill over against the south side of Vastrix Island in Hudson's River, called Wachankasigh," to which Surveyor John Beatty added more precisely on has map of survey in 1715 : "Beginning on the east side of Hudson's River southward from Vastrix Island, at a place where a certain run of water watereth out into Hudson's River, called in ye Indian tongue, Wachanl^assik." The "run of