The name being generic was easily shifted about and so it was that in adjusting the northwest line of the Evans Patent it came to have permanent abode as that of the hill now known as Schunnemunk in the town of Cornwall, Orange County, to the advantage of the proprietors of the Minisink Patent.^ Reference to the old patent line will be met in other connections.

'The patent to Capt. John Evans was granted by Gov. Dongan in 1694, and vacated by act of the Colonial Assembly in 1798, approved by the Queen in 1708. It included Gov. Dongan's two purchases of 1784-85. It was not surveyed; its southeast, or properly its northwest line was never satisfactorily

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Reckgawank, of record in 1645 as the name of Haverstraw, appears in several later forms. Dr. O'Callaghan (Hist. New Neth.) noted: "Sessegehout, chief of Rewechnong of Haverstraw." In Col. Hist. N. Y., "Keseshout/ chief of Rewechnough, or Haverstraw," "Curruppin, brother, and representative of the chief of Rumachnanck, alias Haverstraw." In the treaty of 1645 • "Sesekemick and Willem, chiefs of Tappans and Reckgawank," which Brodhead found converted to "Kumachenack, or Haverstraw."^ The original is no doubt from Rckau, "Sand, gravel," with verb substantive zvi, and locative -ng, or -ink ; written by Zeisberger, Lckauzvi. The same word appears in Rechqua-akie, now Rockaway, L. I. The general meaning, with the locative -nk or -ink, is "At the sandy place," and the reference to the sandy flats, at Haverstraw, where Sesegehout presumably resided. There is no reason for placing this clan on Long Island. Nawasink, Yan Dakah, Caquaney and Aquamack, are entered in the Indian deed to DeHart as names for lands purchased by him at Haverstraw in 1666. The deed reads : "A piece of land and meadow lying upon Hudson's River in several parcels, called by the Indians Nawasink, Yan Dakah, Caquaney, and AquamaCk, within