It means, "The falls of a stream." With the suffix, -oke (Mass. -auke), "Land, ground, place, unlimited" -- "the country around the falls," or the falls country. (See Potick.) Ciskhekainck and Cicklekawick are forms of the name of a place granted by patent to Major Abraham Staats, March 25, 1667, and to his son in 1715, described as "Lying north of Claverack [Hudson], on the east side of the river, along the Great Kill [Kinderhook Creek], to the first fall of water; then to the fishing place, containing two hundred acres, more or less, bounded by the river on one side and by the Great Kill on the other." Major Staats had made previous settlement on the tract under lease from Van Rens-

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selaer. His house and barn were burned by the Indians in the Esopus war of 1663. In 17 15, he being then dead, his son, Abraham, petitioned for an additional tract described as "Four hundred acres adjoining the north line of the neck of land containing two hundred acres now in his possession, called Ciskhekainck, on the north side of Qaverack, on ye east side of Hudson's River." (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 118.) The petition was granted and the two parcels consolidated. The particular fall referred to is probably that now known as Chittenden's, on Kinderhook (now Stockport) Creek, a short distance west of Stockport Station. It may be called a series of falls as the water primarily descended on shelves or steps. It was noted as rexrrarkable by Dankens and Slu>ter in 1679- 80.^ Qaverack Creek unites with Stoclq)ort Creek just Vv-est of the falls. In other connections both streams are called mill streams. In the Stephen Bayard patent of 1741, the name of the fall on Stockport Creek is noted as "A certain fall * * called by the Indians Kasesjevi'ackf' The scA-eral names are perhaps from Cochik'ziack (Moh.), "A wild, dashing" stream.