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. These steps were sixty feet or more high, and were formed out of a single rock."

5^ INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Pomponick, Columbia County. (N. Y. Land Papers.) Pompocnik, a fort to be erected at "about the barn of Lawrence van Alen." (Doc. Hist. N. Y., ii, 90.) Pompoen is Dutch for pumpkin. The name is also written as that of an Indian owner -- " the land bought by Jan Bruyn of Pompoen." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 545-) Pompoeneck is the form of the signature to deed. Mawighanuck, Mawighunk, Waweighanuck, Wawighnuck, forms of the name preserved as that of the Bayard Patent, Columbia County, described as a place "Lying to the northwest of Kinderhook, about fifteen miles from Hudson's River, upon Kinderhook River and some branches thereof, part of which tract is known by the Indian name of Mawig'hanuck." The particular "part" noted has not been located, but it seems to have been where one of the branches of Kinderhook Creek united with that stream. (See Mawichnauk.) Mogongh=kamigh, a boundmark of the Bayard Patent (Land Papers, 245), is located therein, "From a fall on said river called by the Indians Kasesjewack to a certain place called by the natives Mogongh-kamigh, then up the southeast branch," etc. The name means, probably, "Place of a great tree." Kenaghtiquak, " a small stream " so called, was the name of a boundmark of the Peter Schuyler Patent, described, "Beginning where three oak trees are marked, lying upon a small creek, to the south of Pomponick, called by the Indians Kenaghtiquak, and running tlience," etc.