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. Hist. N, Y., xiii, 3.) The Indian name, Arisheck or Aresseck, is so badly corrupted that the original cannot be satisfactorily detected, but, by exchanging n for r, and adding the initial K, we would have Kaniskeck, "A long grassy marsh or meadow." Hoboken, now so written -- Hohocan-Hacking, July, 1630; Hobokan-Hacking, Nov. 1630; Hohokina, 1635; Hohocken, 1643; Hohoken, iG/i^y ; Hohuck and Harhoken, 1655-6 -- ^appears of record first in the Indian deed to Michael Pauw, July 12, 1630, negotiated by the Director-general and Council of New Netherland, and therein by them stated, "By us called Hobocan-Hacking." Primarily it was applied to the low promontory^ below Castle Point,^ bounded, recites the deed, on the south by the "land Ahasimus and Aressick." On ancient charts Aressick and Hoboken-Hacking are represented as two long necks of land or points separated by a cove on the river front now filled in, both points being called hooks. In records it was called an island, and later as "A neck of land almost an island, called Hobuk," * * * "extending on the south side to Ahasimus ; eastward to the river MauritU'S, and on the west side surrounded by a valley or morass through which the boundary can be seen with sufficient clearness." (Winfield's Hist.