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from the early part of the i8th century, and that the name means 

 place where the fresh zvater falls into the salt, a ledge of rocks 

 marking the division. I have the chief's name as Mamarranack, 

 slightly varying from Tooker's form. His definition is probably 

 correct, the others having no good foundation. 



Ma-man-as-quag' appears in a Lewisboro deed of 1708, on the 

 northwest corner of the land then purchased, and on the outlet of 

 Mamatiasquag pond. 



Mam-ga-pes creek was on the west side of the Mamaroneck lands 

 in 1661.. A neck east of this- was also called by the same name. 



Man-gop-son was the west neck at New Rochelle, and a creek 

 had also the same name. 



Man-sa-ka-wagh-kin island was mentioned by Bolton. 



Ma-nun-ket-e-suck was a place on the sound. Tooker has it 

 Maminketsuck, a stream in Pelham, from manuhketsuck, a strong- 

 Uowing brook. Early forms suggest other meanings. 



Ma-nur-sing is little island/ according to Tooker, who writes it 

 Minusing. It is in Rye. 



Me-a-hagh was Verplanck's Point, according to Ruttenber. On 

 Van Cortlandt's purchase of 1683 Meanagh is a name for Ke-wigh- 

 ta-hagh creek in that purchase, and is retained as Meanagh creek 

 between Verplanck's and Montrose points^, 



Men-ti-pat-he, a small stream in West Farms, is from a personal 

 name. •. 



Min-na-he-nock, at the island, is Blackwell's island. 



Min-ne-wies, for Manursing island, has been defined pine island, 

 but Tooker says it was called Minnewits, after Peter Minuit. 



Mi-os-se-has-sa-ky adds an adjective to Haseco, making it great 

 fresh meadow or marshy land. It is on Byram river, adjoining 

 Haseco. 



Mock-quams is now Blind Brook in Rye. It has another Indian 

 name from which this is a variant, being called Moaquanes in 1660. 

 It seems to mean something rapidly enlarging. 



Mo-har-sic or Mohansic lake in Yorktown is sometimes called 

 Crom pond. 



Mo-he-gan lake in Yorktown is called after that important peo- 

 ple. Heckewelder's definition may be rejected, and the meaning of 

 zvolf retained as given by Champlain. 



