Eng.) The hill is claimed to have been the northwest boundmark of the Plaverstraw Patent. In recent times it has been applied to two elevations, the Little Torne, west of the Hudson, and the Great Torne, near the Hudson, south of Haverstraw. (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 46.) Cheesek=ook, Cheesek=okes, Cheesec=oks, Cheesquaki, are forms of the name given as that of a tract of "Upland and meadow," so described in Indian deed, 1702, and included in the Cheesek-ook Patent, covering parts of the present counties of Rockland and Orange. It is now preserved as the name of a hill, to which it was assigned at an early date, and is also quoted as the name of adjacent lands in New Jersey. The suffix -00k, -okc, -aki, etc., shows that it was the name of land or place ( N. J., -alike; Len. -aki). It is probably met in Chcshek-ohke, Ct., translated by Dr. Trumbull from Kiissukoe, Moh., "High," and -ohke, "Land or place" -- literally, high land or upland. The final ^ in some forms, is an English plural : it does not belong to the root. (See Coxackie.) In pronunciation the accent should not be thrown on the letter k ; that let-. ter belongs to the first word. There is no Kook about it.

Tappans, Carte Figurative of date (presumed) 1614-16, is entered thereon as the name of an Indian village in Lat. 41° 15', claimed, traditionally, to have been at or near the site of the later Dutch