It is from Sepn, "River," and -es, "small." On the Carte Figurative it is written on the east side of the river near a stream north of Wappingers' Creek, as it may have been legitimately, but in 1623 it came to be located permanently at what is now Rondout Creek, from -which it was extended to several streams/ to the Dutch settlement now Kingston, to the resident Indians, and to a large district of country. The chirographer of 1614-16 seems to have added the initial E from the uncertain sound of the initial S, and later scribes further corrupted it to the Greek and Latin 7E. (See Waronawanka.) Waronawanka, Carte Figuarative 1614-16 -- VVarraivaniiankoncks, Wassenaer, 1621-5 ; Warranmvankongs, De Laet, 1621-5, and Waranazvankcougys, 1633 ; Waranmvankongs, Van der Donck, 1656; Waerinneivongh, local, 1677 -- is located on the Carte Fig-

* The streams entering the Hndson in proximity came to be known as the Kleine Esopus, south of Rondout ; the Groot Esopus, now the Rondout, and the Esopus, now the Saugerties. In the valley west of old Kingston was a brook, called in records the "Mill Stream."

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urative on the west side of the Hudson a few miles north of latitude 42. On Van der Donck's map it is placed on the west side between Pollepel's Island and the Dans Kamer. De Laet wrote in his "New World" (Leyden edition) : "This reach [Vischer's, covering Newburgh Bay] extends to another narrow pass, where, on the west side of the river, there is a point of land juts out covered with sand, opposite a bend in the river on which another nation of savages called the IVaoranccks, have their abode at a place called Esopus. A little beyond, on the west side of the river, where there is a creek, and the river becomes more shallow, the Waranawankongs reside.