Arisheck -- "The Little Island Aressick" (See Ahasimus), called by the Dutch Aresseck Houck, Hoeren Houck, and Paulus Houck -- now the eastern point of Jersey City -- was purdhased from the Indians by Michael Pauw, Nov. 22, 1630, with "the land called Ahasimus," and, with the "Island Hobokan-Hackingh," purchased by him in July of the same year, was included in his plantation under the general name of Pavonia, a Latinized form of his own name, from Pavo, "Peacock" (Dutch Pauw), which is retained in the name of the Erie R. R. Ferry. Primarily, Arisseck was a low neck of land divided by a marsh, the eastern end forming what was ' "The aforesaid land Ahasimus and Aressick, by us called the Whore's Corner, extending along the river Maurites and the Island Manhates on the east side, and the Island Hobokan-Hackingh on the north side, surrounded by swamps, which are sufficiently distinct for boundaries." (Pauw Deed, Nov. 22, 1630; Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 3.) Mr. Winfield located Ahasimus "At that portion of Jersey City which lies east of Union Hill, excepting Paulus' Hoeck (Areisheck), * * generally from Warren to near Grove Street."

Hudson's river on the west. 107 called an island. The West India Company ihad a trading post 'there conducted by one Michael Paulis, from wihom it was called Paulus' Hook, which it re'tains, Pauw also estalblished a trading post there which, as it lay directly in the line of the great Indian 'trunk-path (see Saponickan), so seriously interfered with the trade of the Dutch post that the Company purchased the land from him in 1638, and in the same year sold the island to one Abraham Planck. In the deed to Planck the description reads : "A certain parcel of land called Pauwels Hoek, situated westward of the Isiland Manhates and eastward of Ahasimus, extending from the North River into the valley which runs around it there." (Col.