Menagnock, the record name of what has long been known as "The Great Mennirsincks Island" -- "The Great Island of the Mennisinks" -- is probably an equivalent of Menach'hcnak (Minsi) meaning "Islands." The island, so called, is a flat cut up by water courses, forming several small islands. Namenock, an island so called by Rev. Casparus Freymout in '^72)7^ is probably an equivalent of Naman-ock and Namec-ock, L. I., which was translated by Dr. Trumbull from Mass. Namau-ohke, "Fishing place," or "Fish country" -- Namaiik, Del, "Fishing place." Perhaps it was the site of a weir or dam for impounding fish. Such dams or fishing places became boundmarks in some cases. The name was corrupted to Nomin-ack, as the name of a church and of a fort three or four miles below what is now Montague, N. J. On Long Island the name is corrupted to Nomin-ick. (See Moriches.)

Magatsoot -- A tract of land "Called and known by the name of Magockomack and Magatsoot" -- so entered in petition of Philip French for Minisink Patent in 1703, is noted in petition of Ebenezer Wilson (same patent), in 1702, "Beginning on the northwest side

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of the mouth of Weachackamack Creek where it enters Minisink River."' The creek was then given the name of the field called Maghaghkamieck ; it is now called Neversink. Magatsoot was the name of the mouth of the stream, "Where it enters Minisink River," or the Delaware. It is an equivalent of Machaak-sok,^ meaning, "The great outlet," or mouth of a river. Although specific in application to the mouth of the river, it is more strictly the name of the stream than that which it now bears. (See JViagaat-Ramis.) Maghagh-kamieck, so written in patent to Arent Schuyler in 1694, and described therein as "A certain tract of land at a place called Maghaghkamieck," which "Place" was granted, in 1697, to Swartwout, Coddebeck, and others, has been handed down in many orthographies.