This done the whole Pavonia was immediately in flames." ^ (Col. Hist. N. Y., xii, 98.) The deed stateuTent, "By us named," is explicit, and obviously impHes that the terms in the name were Dutch and not Indian, and Dutch they surely were. Dr. A. S. Gatschet, of the Bureau of Ethnology, wrote me: "Hoboken, called after a village on the river Scheldt, a few miles below Antwerp," and after a high elevation on its north side. Ho -- , holi -- , is the radical of 'high' in aU German dialects, and Buck is 'elevation' in most of them. Buckel (Germ.), Bochel (Dutch), means 'hump,' 'hump-back.' Hump (Low German) is 'heap,' 'hill.' Ho-bok-an locates a place that is distinguished by a hill, or by a hill in some way associated with it." PresuTnabl}' from the ancient village of Hoboken came to ]Manhattan, about 1655, one Harmon van Hoboccon, a schoohiiaster, who evidently was given his famidy name from the village from whence he came. He certainly did not give his family name to Hoboken twenty years prior to his landing at Manhattan.

' Teunissed van Putten was the first white resident of Hoboken. He leased the land for twelve years from Jan. i, 1641. The West India Company was to erect a small house for him. Presumably this house is referred to in the narrative. It was north of Hoboken Kill.

' Now a commercial village of Belgium. The prevailing dialect spoken there was Flemish, usually classed as Low German. The Low German di. lects of three centuries ago are imperfectly represented in modern orthogr:- phies. In and around Manhattan eighteen different European dialects were spoken, as noted of record -- Dutch, Flemish, German, Scandanavian, Walloon, etc.