ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK l6l 



Basher, who was either killed there or fell under a deer she was 

 bringing home, and was drowned. It may have been contracted 

 from Monabasha. The name occurs elsewhere, but Basha mountain 

 and pond are here. 



Cha-van-go-en was on the Evans patent of 1699, and seems a 

 variant of Shawangunk. 



Cheese-cocks patent was given in 1701, the name coming from 

 a small tributar}^ of the Ramapo. It was afterward applied to a 

 " tract of upland and meadow," the bounds of which were contested 

 later. It is also said to be the early name of a natural meadow. 

 Freeland derived Cheesecocks from chis, iip or higJi, and kauk, land, 

 making it high land, but chees is a Delaware word for hide, and 

 cheessack for ftir, and it may be from either of these, as a good 

 trapping place. 



Co-wen-ham's kill, at Plum point, north of the Highlands, was 

 mentioned by Ruttenber. It resembles some Indian names, but is 

 of doubtful character. 



The Cushietank mountains are on the map of 1768, and may 

 be connected with the Cashigton Indians of Orange county, called 

 Wolf and Turtle, and mentioned in 1745. 



Gil-la-ta-wagh was in the Evans grant. 



Jo-gee Hill, in Minisink according to Ruttenber, but now in 

 Wawayanda, was the home of " Kegh-ge-ka-po-well alias Joghem," 

 a grantor of the land in 1684, who lived there after his tribe left. 

 The name suggests that of Joseph Gee, who gave the name of 

 Colchester in Delaware in 1792, but Ruttenber 's statement is definite 

 on its Indian origin. 



Kack-a-wa-wook was a place on the east side of Paltz creek, at 

 the north end of one line of the tract asked for by Robert Sanders. 



Ka-kagh-get-a-wan was on the Evans tract. 



Mak-ha-ken-eck, a tract in the Minisink region in 1697. 



Mag-ha-wa-e-mus was another tract. 



Ma-hack-e-meck was a name for the Neversink river, which was 

 called the Mag-gagh-ka-mi-ek in 1694. It was mentioned later as 

 the " Mouth of the Mackhacamac Branch of Delaware, where the 

 Line settled between New York & New Jersey terminates." Ma- 

 hackemeck is now Port Jervis. It appeared as Maghakeneck, al- 



