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Cheese-kook creek is a small tributary of the Ramapo. From the 

 Delaware, chees, a hide, or cheessack, fur. 



The top of Es-sa-we-te-ne hill was on the north line of land 

 bought in 1687, between the Nyack hills and Hackensack river. 



Ge-ma-kie, one of four Indian names of tracts in Samuel Beyard's 

 purchase of 1703. It is probably from a word meaning heaver, 

 which is tamaque in Delaware. 



Hack-en-sack, usually rendered loivland, a river flowing south. 

 It varies much in form, as Achkinkehacky in 1645, Achkinkeshaky 

 in 1660, Hackinkasacky in 1660, etc. 



Ruttenber defined it stream that unites with another in low level 

 ground. Trumbull thought it might be derived from Huc-quan- 

 sauk, hook mouth, from the curve of its outlet. 



Hack-yack-awck was a name for the Kakiate patent in 1696, and 

 the correct one. 



He-a-ma-weck or Peasqua creek was on its western boundary. 



Hes-pa-tingh was near Hackensack in 1657. 



Ja-a-pough was a tract in the Blandia Bayard purchase of 1700. 



Jan-de-kagh was another of these. 



Ka-ki-ate patent was issued in 1696, and there were later dis- 

 putes about it. It was also called Hackyackawck and Yachtaucke. 

 A reasonable derivation would be from kuhkuhheg, a boundary. 

 Spafford said, in speaking of the town of Hempstead : " Kakiat is 

 the Indian name of part of this town, long since settled by people 

 from Hempstead, Queens county, who gave it the name of New 

 Hempstead . . . But the village has constantly retained the 

 original nam,e of Kakiat." 



Ku-mo-che-nack was an Indian name of Haverstraw bay, as 

 given by Ruttenber, differing from other forms in the initial letter. 



A Mohawk river appears in this county on one map, flowing 

 south. 



Ma-ha-ick-a-mack or Neversink river here refers to a fishing 

 place. 



Ma-he-qua run on a tract bought in 1694. 



Ma-son-i-cus is given in a history of this county as the Indian 

 name of a hamlet south of Tallman's. Perhaps from assonog, 

 nettles. 



Mat-te-a-wan mountains. This name has been already considered. 



