ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 245 



Wood interpreted zuherc ivampiiin is made. This seems without 

 support unless in tradition. The name of Cohamong appeared in 

 a deed of 1700, and it has been shortened into Coman. French 

 places Cobamong pond a mile east of Byram pond. 



Co-han-sey is a name almost forgotten. 



Con-o-val was mentioned by Bolton. 



Co-wan-gongh, boundary place, is a name in West Farms. 



Cro-ton is a personal name applied to a place. Schoolcraft sug- 

 gested kenotin or knoton, ivind or tempest, as its origin. Tooker 

 preferred the Delaware word kloltin, he contends. It is now the 

 name of a river, lake and town, and occurs elsewhere. 



E-auk-e-tau-puck-u-son is now Rye Woods. Tooker has Euke- 

 taupucuson or Ekucketaupacuson for a high hill in Rye, as well as 

 the woods. Ruttenber writes it Enketaupuenson, and makes it a 

 high ridge east of Blind Brook. In old records the wonder some- 

 times is that proper names can be read at all. This is interpreted 

 zvhere a stream widens on both sides; i. e., overflows. 



Go-wa-ha-su-a-sing is a place in West Farms. Tooker considers 

 this a Delaware word, meaning place of briars, or where there is a 

 hedge. Zeisberger has gawunschenack for hedge in that dialect. 



Ha-se-co is a meadow on Byram river. Some have derived this 

 from the English word hassock, suggestive here of marshy tufts, 

 but it is an Indian word meaning fresh meadozv or marshy land. 

 Miossehassaky was a meadow adjoining this. The name occurs in 

 New England" and elsewhere, and may be translated a bog. 



Hickory Grove is iii Mamaroneck. We have adopted many In- 

 dian names of trees and plants, and this is a familiar one. 



Ho-ko-hon-gus was near Pocanteco creek. 



Hon-ge, the upper part of Blind Brook, may be Aquehung, re- 

 ferring to its higher banks. 



Ka-to-nah has been briefly noticed. Tooker defines this as great 

 mountain, the prefix keht meaning great. It is now a village on 

 Cross river, named from a chief of 1683, who also sold land in 

 1702. 



Ke-a-ka-tis creek is mentioned by Bolton. 



Kech-ka-wes creek, near the East river, was a name for Ma- 

 harnes river in 1649, ^^'^ ^'^^Y t»e defined as a principal stream, from 

 kehche, it is chief. 



