ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OE NEW YO&K ^47 



Heckewelder, was a Delaware name for New York and West- 

 chester. The story has been mentioned under the head of New 

 York county. Tooker places this in Pelham and disagrees with 

 Heckewelder, defining the name as a ctdtivated Held or plantation, 

 from lapechwahacking, land again broken up. 



Ma-cok-as-si-no, at the big rock, is used by Bolton for a tract 

 along the Hudson, but varies from the original name. 



Ma-cook-nack point. Sauthier has also a Macookpack pond, but 

 in Dutchess county. 



Ma-en-ne-pis creek was mentioned by Bolton. It may be de- 

 rived from manunne, it is slow, and nepis, zvater. 



Ma-gri-ga-ri-es or Magriganies lake is in Yorktown. Perhaps 

 something large. 



Ma-gri-ga-ri-es is also an Indian name for the creek at Peeks- 

 kill. 



Ma-har-nes or Mehanas was also called Kechkawes kill, and 

 flows through Bedford. Tooker gives it as A^yanas, Mehanos, 

 Meahagh, etc., and says it was from the name of Mayanne, who 

 was killed in 1683. It means he who gathers together. Meanous 

 river appears in a deed of 1700. 



Ma-ka-kas-sin is also written Meghkeekassin, Mehkakhsin, 

 Amackassin, etc., and may be derived from the Delaware word mee- 

 chekachsinik, at the big rock. It was a large rock and landmark 

 west of the Neperah, and has been briefly noticed as giving name to a 

 tract of land. It was mentioned in 1682 as a great rock, Megh- 

 keekassin, on the Neperhan. The name was also given to a neigh- 

 boring stream in the manor grant of Philipseborough, " a rivulet 

 called by the Indians Meccackassin, so running southward to 

 Neperhan." Ruttenber defined it the great stone, the one called 

 Sigghes. 



Mam-ar'-o-neck has been defined place of rolling stones, a mani- 

 fest error. French says it is " pronounced both Mam-a-ro'-neck and 

 Mam-ar'-o-neck. The latter is more generally used, and is often 

 contracted to Mor-neck or Mar-neck, in common speech." Tooker 

 says the river was named after Mamaronock, who was a chief at 

 Wiquaeskeck in 1644, and he derives it from mohmoanock, he 

 assembles the people. Moworronoke is a variant, and Mamarack 

 river was mentioned in 1661. Scharf says the present spelling dates 



