At a previous date (Sept. 22) Mott asked for a patent for four hundred acres "at a place called S'hawungunk," which was "given him when a child by the Indians." Whether the two tracts were the same or not does not appear; but in 1702, June 10, Severeyn TenTiout remonstrated against granting to Mott the land which he had petitioned for, and accompanied his remonstrance by an extract from the minutes of the Court at Kingston, in 1693, granting the land to himself. He asked for a patent and gave the name of the tract "Called by the Indians Masseecks, near Sliawengonck," i. e. near the certain tract called Shawongunk which liad been granted to Thomas Lloyd. He received a patent. In 1709, Mott petitioned "in relation to a certain tract of land upon Showangonck River" which had been granted to Tenhout, asking that the "same be so divided" that he (Mott)

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should "have a proportion of the good land upon the said river" -- obviously a section of low land or meadow, described by the name of a place thereon called Maskcck (Zeisb.), meaning "Swamp, bog" ; Maskeht (Eliot), "Grass." The radical is ask, "green," raw, immature." The suffix -cghs represents an intensive form of the guttural formative, which the German missionaries softened to -ech and -ck, and the English to -sli, and is frequently met in X. Heckewelder wrote that the original sound was that of the Greek X, hence Maskex and x in Ooxsackie. Maschaheneer, the name given ■by Mott, is not satisfactorily translatable. Pitkiskaker and Aioskawasting appear in deed from the Esopus Indians to Governor Dongan, in 1684, as the names of divisions of what are now known as the Shawongunk Mountains south of Mohunk or Paltz Point.