From the map it seems to have been a long, narrow piece of land between the hills. Quissichkook, Quassighkook, etc., one of the two places reserved by the Indians "to plant upon" when they sold Tachkanik, is described in the deed as a place "lying upon this {i. e. the west) side of Roelof Jansen's Kill" and "near Tachanik," the course running "thence along a small hill to a valley that leads to a small

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creek called by the Indians Quissichkook, and over the creek to a hig-h place to the westward of a hig-h mountain called by tlie natives Kachtawag-ick." In a petition by Philip Schuyler, 1686, the description reads : "Quassichkook, * * lying on the east side of Roelof Jansen's Kill," and the place as a tract of woodland. The name was probably that of a wooded bluff on the east side of the creek. It seems to be from Kussuhkoe (Moh.), "high," and -00k, locative -- "At, to or on a high place" -- from which the stream and fhe plantation was located. (See Ouassaick.) Pattkqke, a place so called, also written Pot-koke, gave name to a large tract of land patented to Johannes Van Rensselaer in 1649. In general terms the tract was described as lying "South of Kinderhook,^ east of Claverack,- and west of Taghkanick" (Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii, 617), and also as "Lying to the east of Major Abraham's patent of Claverack." ^ Specifically, in a caveat filed by John Van * Kinderhook is an anglicism of Dutch Kinder-hoek, meaning, literally, " Children's point, angle or corner." It dates from the Carte Figurative of 1614-16, and hence is one of the oldest names on Hudson's River. It is supposed to have been applied from a gathering of Indian children on a point of land to gaze upon the ship of the early navigator.