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. Cochik'uack, by the way, is one of the mosit corrupted names of record.

Kesieway's Kil, described in an Indian deed to Garritt van Slichterihorst, 1667-8. "A certain piece of land at Cl?.verack between the bouwer}- of Jan Rootfier and Major Abraham Staats, beginning at a fall at the kil called Kesieway's Kil." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 51, 57.) The tract seems to have been on Claverack Creek south of Stockport "Jan Roothers" is otherwise written, "Jan Hendricksen, alias Jan Roothaer." Roth (German) means "red," -(ler is from German Haxir (hair). He was known locally as "Jan, tiie red-head." The location of the fall has not been ascertained. Kashaway Creek is a living form of the name in the town of Greenport. Columbia County. On the opposite side of the Hudson the same name apparently, appears in Keesieway, Kesewey, etc., as that of a "chief or sachem" of the Katskill Indians. ( See Keessienwev's Hoeck.l

^ " We came to a creek, where, near the river, lives a man whom they call the Child of Liixury (f kinder van walde). He had a sawmill on the creek or ■waterfall, which is a singular one. The water falls quite steep in one body, but it comes down in steps, with a broad rest sometimes between them.