It is described of record as a place "lying on both sides of Kinderhook Creek," and may have taken its name from an adjacent feature. Wapemwatsjo, the name of a hill in Columbia County, is a Dutch orthography of JVapim-ivadchu, "Chestnut Hill." The interpretation iscorrectly given in the accompanying alternate, "or Karstengeberg" (Kastanjeberg, Dutch), "Chestnut Hill." Kaunaumeek, an Indian village sixteen miles east of Albany, in the town of Nassau, Rensselaer County, was the scene of the labors of Moravian missionaries, and especially of Missionary Brainerd. It was long known as Brainerd's Bridge, and is now called

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Brainerds. The name is Lenape (German notation) and the equivalent of Oitannamdug, Nar., Gunemeek, Len., "Long-fish place," a '"Fis'hing'-place for lampreys." The form, Kaunaumeek, was introduced here by the Moravian missionaries. Scompamuck is said to have been the name of the locality now covered by the village of Ghent, Columbia County, perhaps more strictly the head of the outlet of Copake Lake where an Indian settlement islocated on early maps. The suffix, -amuck, is the equivalent of -amaug, "fishing place." Ouschank-amaug, from Otischacheu, "smooth, slippery," hence eel or lampery -- "a fishing-place for eels." Copake, the modern form of the name of a lake in Columbia County, is of record Achkookpeek (Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii. 628), meaning, literally, "Snake water," from Achkook, "Snake," and -peek, "Water place," pool or pond. Hendrick Aupaumut, the Historian of the Stockbridge-Mahicans, wrote: "Ukhkokpeck; it signifies snake-water, or water where snakes are abundant." On a map of the boundary line between Mas'sachusetts and New York an Indian village is located at the outlet of the lake, presumably that known as Scompamuck. Kaphack, on Westenhook River, a place described as " Beginning at an Indian burying-place hard by Kaphack," probaibly means "A separate place" -- "land not occupied." The tract began at "an Indian burying-place," and presumably took its name therefrom.