ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 233 



Cock-singh was a tract almost behind Marbletown in 1678. It 

 was also described as a point of land below Esopus island and behind 

 Marbletown. It may be ozvl place, but Heckewelder made Cohock- 

 sink pine lands. 



Click-sink was bought without a license in 1683, and has the same 

 name. 



E-a-si-neh was included in a tract belonging to the Dutch in 1681, 

 and seems the Sager's kill. It may be from eiassunck, a knife, or 

 ehes, a clam. 



E-so-pus, once Sopus, was derived by Heckewelder from seepu. 

 the Delaware word for river. Seepu s was made (jquivalent to 

 Sopus, and Esopus was formed from this, being so callerl in 1655. 

 It sometimes appeared as Sopers. The Indians there were of the 

 Algonquin family, and there would be more force in the alleged 

 origin had they not called the place by another name, and the Dutch 

 invariably by this. It became prominent at an early day. 



Fruy-de-yach-ka-mick, or the Great river, appears as the east 

 boundary of the Esopus Indians in 1677, being the Hudson river 

 near Rondout. F does not appear in Algonquin words, and R is 

 rarely used, so that the name is erroneously given. It may be from 

 kehche, greatest, and amaug, Ushing place, or a coiruption of 

 kittangamunk, great water on the other side. 



Ho-mo-wack has been defined zvater flows out, probably an error. 

 It is a village in Wawarsing, on the line of Sullivan coanty. 



Ka-ha-kas-nik was a creek west of Rondout creek in 1677, and a 

 tract of land in Rochester was called Kahanckasinck hi 1709. 



Ka-ka-ta-wis was the name of one of the four Esopus tribes. 



Ker-honk-son is now the name of a village as well as creek, but in 

 1665 land was sold west and southwest of Kahankson creek. It 

 has been written Kerhonkton, and in these later forms is place of 

 wild geese. 



Ket-se-pray was one of the four Esopus tribes. 



Kyserike has been thought an Indian name by some, £.nd is a 

 hamlet in Rochester, but a conveyance of land called Keysserryck 

 was given in 1703, and this was purchased of the Keysers, who were 

 early settlers. 



Lack-a-wack, at the forks, is a village in Wawarsing, on the 

 Rondout. 



