Abnaki, pen, plural, penak. Other species were designated by prefixes to this generic, and, in the compositions of place names, was employed to denote locality {auk, auki, ock, etc.), or by an abundance verb (kanti-kadi) . Thus p'sai-pen, 'wild onions,' with the suffix for place, ock, gave p'sai-p en-auk, or as written by the Dutch, Passapenock, .387.)Indian name for Beeren Island." (J. H. Trumbull, Mag. of Am. Hist i, the

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-mill, the name became extended to the stream," an explanation that seems to bear the marks of having been coined. From the character of the stream the name is probably a corruption of the Dutch Boosen, "An angry stream," because of its rapid descent. The stream reaches the Hudson on the north line of Troy. (See Gesmessecks.) Paanpaach is quoted by Brodhead (Hist. N. Y.) as the name of the site of the city of Troy. It appears in 1659 ^^ application to bottom lands known as "The Great Meadows," ^ lying under the hills on the east side of the Hudson. At the date of settlement by Van der Huyden (1720), it is said there were stripes or patches within the limits of the present city which were known as "The corn-lands of the Indians," ' from which the interpretation in French's Gazetteer, "Fields of corn," whidh the name never meant in any language. The name may have had an Indian antecedent, hnt as it stands it is Dutch from Paan-pacht, meaning "Low, soft land," or farm of leased land. The same name appears in Paanpack. Orange county, which see. Piskawn, of record as the name of a stream on the north line of Troy, describes a branch or division of a river. Rale wrote in Abnaki, "Peskakoon, branche," of which Piskawn is an equivalent.