ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 189 



Indian there removed in 1793. This was near the SulHvan county 

 Hne. 



Pot-hat or Potake, round pond, one so called by the Indians, is 

 2^ miles from Sloatsburg. 



Quas-peck was a place at which there was an Indian sale of 

 5000 acres in 1694. Ruttenber derived the name from qusuk, a 

 stone, and placed it at Verdrietig Hook, a Dutch name meaning 

 tedious point. 



Ra-mach-ke-nanck in 1660, and Re-wech-nongh in 1664, are dif- 

 fering forms of the Indian name of Haverstraw bay, probably mean- 

 ing sandy place. Rewechgawanancks and Rewechnonghs are early 

 names for Indians living there. 



Ra-m,a-po, often written Ramapough, was the name of a tract 

 bought in 1700, when it had the latter form. Ruttenber defined it 

 a river ivhich empties into a number of round ponds. He also 

 writes it Ramspook. The name is applied to a river and mountains. 



Ra-sen-de brook was mentioned in 1790. 



Sar-rack is opposite Tarrytown on Sauthier's map. 



Scun-ne-mank hills are also on this, and the name has been 

 already, treated. 



Skoon-nen-ogh-ky suggests the last, and was the Indian name 

 for the Backberg on the Cheesecock patent and on the Stony Point 

 tract. 



Tap-pan is variously written and often appears in early records. 

 Heckewelder said : " This is from the Delaware language, and de- 

 rived from Thuphane or Tup-hanne, Cold Spring." The derivation 

 is closer than many of his, but the word suggests a river rather than 

 a spring. It was the name of an Indian tribe applied to the bay, 

 and thence came Tappantown in Orangetown.^ 



Was-sa-gro-ras was mentioned in 1776, and the Wescyrorap plain 

 of 1696 and 1713 seems the same. 



Wa-wa-yan-da patent was partly in this county. 



Who-ri-nims was one of the tracts purchased by S. Bayard in 

 1703. 



ST LAWRENCE COUNTY 



Ak-wis-sas'-ne, where the partridge drums; St Regis. Morgan 

 wrote it, Ah-qua-sos'-ne, partridges drumming. This bird afforded 

 a favorite personal name to the Iroquois. 



