The first deed (1667) placed the boundmark of the tract "At the foot of the great mountain," and the second deed (1677) extended the limit "To the top of the mountain called Watchung." Achkinckeshacky; Hackinkcshacky, 1645 ^ Hackinghsa-ckin, Hackinkesack (1660); Hackensack (1685); Ackinsack, Hockquiri' dachque ; Hackquinsack, are early necord forms of the name of primary application to the stream now known as the Hackensack, from which it was extended to the adjacent district, to an Indian settlement, and to an Indian sachem, or, as Van Tienhoven wrote, "A certain savage chief, named Haickquinsacq." (Breeden Raedt.)

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The most satisfactory interpretation of the name is that suggested (by IJhe late Dr. Trumbull : "From Hiickquan, Mass., Hocquaan, Len., 'Hook,' and sank, 'mout^li of a river' -- ^literally, 'Hook-shaped mouth,' descriptive of the course of the stream around Bergen Poinjt, by t^he Kil van Kull,^ to New York Bay." Campanus wrote Hocki'tng, "Hook," and Zeisberger, Hocquaan."^ The German Hackcn, now Hackensack, means "Hook," as in German Riissel Hacken, "Pot-hook," a hook incurved at both ends, as the letter S ; in Lenape Hocquoan (Zeisb.). Probably simply a substitution. Commoenapa, written in several forms, was the name of the most southern of the six early Dutch settlements on the west side of Hudson's River, known in their order as Commoenapa, Aresseck, Bergen, Ahasimus, Hoboken-Hackingh, and Awiehacken. Commoenapa is now preserved as the name of the upland between Communipaw Avenue and Walnut Street, Jersey City, but was primarily applied to the arm of the main land beginning at Konstabel's Hoek, and later to the site of the ancient Dutch village of Gamoenapa, as written by De Vries in 1640, and by the local scribes, Gamcenapaen.^ (Col. Hist. N. Y. xiii, 36, 37.) Dunlap (Hist. N. ^ Before entering New York Harbor, Hudson anchored his ship below the Narrows and sent out an exploring party in a boat, who entered the Narrows and ascended as far as Bergen Point, where they encountered a second channel which they explored as far as Newark Baj^ The place where the second channel was met they called " The Kils," or channels, and so it has remained -- incorrectly " Kills." The Narrows they called Col, a pass or defile, or mountain-pass, hence Kil van Col, channel of the Narrow Pass, and hence Achtcr Col, a place behind the narrow channel.