Probably an equivalent of Natick Sonkippog, "Cool water." Poplopen's Creek, now so written, the name of the stream flowing to the Hudson between the sites of the Revolutionary forts Clinton and Montgomery, south of West Point, and also the name of one of the ponds of which the stream is the outlet, seems to be from English Pop-looping (Dutch Loopen), and to describe the stream as flowing out quickly -- Pop, "To issue forth with a quick, sudden movement" ; Looping, "To run," to flow, to stream. The flow of the stream was controlled by the rise and fall of the waters in the ponds on the hills, seven in number. The outlet of Poplopen Pond is now dammed back to retain a head of water for milling

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purposes. It is a curious name. The possessive s does not belong to the original -- Pop-looping Creek. Assinapink, the name of a small stream of water flowing to the Hudson from a lake bearing the same name -- colloquially Sinsapink -- known in Revolutionary history as Bloody Pond -- is of record, "A small rivulet of water called Assin-napa-ink" (Cal. N, Y. Land Papers, 99), from Assin, "stone"; Napa, "lake, pond," or place of water, and -ink, locative, literally, "Place of water at or on the stone." The current interpretation, "Water from the solid rock," is not specially inappropriate, as the lake is at the foot of the rocks of Bare Mountain. At a certain place in the course of the stream a legal description reads: "A whitewood tree standing near the southerly side of a ridge of rocks, lying on the south side of a brook there called by the Indians Sickbosten Kill, and by the Christians Stony Brook." ^ The Indians never called the stream Sickbosten, unless they learned that word from the Dutch, for corrupted Dutch it is.