Nachawawakkano, given as the name of a creek described as a "creek which comes into another creek," is an equivalent of Lechauivakhanne (Lenape), "The fork of a river," a stream that forks another stream. Aupaumut, the Stockbridge H'isitorian, wrote, with locative suffix, N aukhuivivhnauk , "At the fork of the streams." Mawichnauk -- "the place where the two streams meet being -called Mawidmauk" -- 'means "The fork place, or place where the Nachawawakkano and the Tawastaweka came together, or where the streams meet or flow together. In the Bayard Patent the name is wr*itten Mawighanuck and Wawieglianuck. (See Wawighanuck.) Shaupook and Skaukook are forms of tfhe name assigned to the eastern division of a stream, "which, a little lower down," was "called Twastawekah," known later as Claverack Creek. It may be translated from Sohk, Mass., "outlet," and iik, locative, "At the outle't" or mouth of the sream. * Robert Livingston, who wrote most of the Indian names in his patent, was a Scotchman. He learned to "talk Dutch" in Rotterdam, and picked up an acquaintance with the Indian tongues at Fort Orange (Albany). Some of his orthographies are singular combinations.

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Twastavvekah and Tawastawekah, g-iven, in the Livingston Patent, as the name of Claverack Creek, is described as a place that was below Shaiikook, The root is Tawa, an "open space," and the name apparently an equivalertt of Lenape Tawatawikunk, "At an open place," or an uninhabited place, a wilderness. TauwatOr wique-ak, "A place in the wilderness." (Gerard.) Sahkaqua, " the south end of a sma.ll piece of land called Sahkaqua and Nakawaewick" ; "to a run of water on ye east end of a certain flat or piece of land called in ye Indian tongue, Sahkahka ; then south * * one hundred and forty rods to * * where two runs of water come together on the south side of the said flat ; then west * * to a rock or great stone on the south corner of another flat or piece of low land called by the Indians Nakaowasick." (Doc.