The location is certain from the will of Jacobus Bruyn in 1744- ^ The most worthless interpretation is that in Spofford's Gazeteer and copied by Mather in his Geological Survey: "Shazven, in the Mohegan language, means 'White,' also 'Salt.' and Gunk, 'A large pile of rocks,' hence 'White Rocks' or mountain." The trouble with it is that there is no such word as Shazven, meaning "White" in any Algonquian dialect, and no such word as Gunk, meaning "Rocks."

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"hill," and -luik, locative, the combination reading, "At (or on) the hill-side."^ This reading is literally sustained by the locative. The name is of especial interest from its association with the Dutch and Indian War of 1663, although not mentioned in Kregier's narrative of the destruction of the Indian palisaded village called "New Fort,"' and later Shawongunk Fort. The narrative is very complete in colonial records.- The village or fort was not as large as that called Kahanksan, which had previously been destroyed. It was composed of ten huts, probably capable of accommodating two or three hundred people. The palisade around them formed "a perfect square," on the brow of a tract of table-land on the bank of Shawongunk Kill. Since first settlement the location has bee;i known as "New Fort." It is on the east side of the stream about three miles west of the village of Wallkill.^ In the treaty of 1664 the site and the fields around it were conceded, with other lands, to the Dutch, by the Indians, as having been "conquered by the sword," but were subsequently included (1684) in the purchase by Governor Dongan. Later were included in the patent to Capt. John Evans, and was later covered by one of the smaller patents into which the Evans Patent was divided. When the Dutch troops left it i't was a terrible picture of desolation.