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Pock-cot-es-se-wake is a brook in Rye, and was also applied to 

 Mamaroneck. Tooker thought this a personal name, there being 

 a chief called Meghtesewakes. It suggests the next. 



Pock-e-o-tes-sen creek is now Stony brook or Beaver dam. Rut- 

 tenber wrote it Pockestersen. It may be a corruption of pohpoh- 

 kussu, a partridge. 



Pock-er-hoe was a village, and Tooker thought it a corruption of 

 Tuckahoe. 



Poh-ki-tuck-ut is defined by Tooker at the clear creek. 



Po-ho-ta-sack creek was mentioned in 1695. It was east of the 

 Sachus tract, and the beginning of the purchase line. 



Po-nin-goe or Peningoe, a neck in Rye and the residence of a 

 Siwanoy chief. Tooker thought this a personal name, but it was 

 applied to the town by the Indians, and the tract bought in 1660 

 had this name. It may be from penackinnu, it grozvs and spreads, 

 like a vine. 



Po-nus was a chief's name, meaning he places {Something^, ac- 

 cording to Tooker. Ponewhush, lay down your burdens is im- 

 perative in the Narragansett dialect. 



Po-ti-ti-cus is in Bedford, and Tooker calls it a trail, deriving it 

 from Mutighticoos. Something might be added to this definition,, 

 but tlie Potiticus path was mentioned in a deed of 1700. 



Pus-sa-pa-num eg: Pussatanun was a place near Annsville, mean- 

 ing a miry place. 



Qua-haug was given by Bolton, and is from po-quau-hock, round 

 dam. 



Quar-op-pas, or White Plains, was bought in 1683, and includes 

 Scarsdale. Tooker thought it a personal name. 



Quin-na-hung was Hunt's point in West Farms. Tooker called 

 it long high place, while Ruttenber derived it from quinni, long, 

 and ung, place. Quinni-onk means longer than, and thus would 

 refer to the longest point in the vicinity. It was sometimes applied 

 to the southern part of West Farms. 



Ra-ho-na-ness, a plain east of Rye, was considered a personal 

 name by Tooker. It lay on the east side of the Peningoe tract, pur- 

 chased in r66o, and was also mentioned in 1720. 



Ran-ach-que is the Bronx tract or Bronck's land. It was 'also 



