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applied to Shappequa hills. Chappaqua is a variant. Tooker de- 

 fined it as a boundary or place of separation, which is the meaning 

 of chadchapunum. Bolton said it meant " a vegetable root." In 

 this case it might be from tschuppic, called "Aaron root " by Zeis- 

 berger. Chipohke, unoccupied land, sounds much like this name, 

 and seems as good a derivation as those mentioned, if not very 

 much better. 



Sha-te'-muc was a name for the lower Hudson, and Schoolcraft 

 defined this Pelican river, from shata, a pelican, though he did not 

 know of this bird there. It does, however, occur far inland in 

 New York. He afterward made it mean the stately swan. Wash- 

 ington Irving seems to have first used the name in print. 



Shin-ga-ba-wos-sins was defined by Tooker as a place of Hat 

 stones. Other derivations might be suggested. Shingebis is a west- 

 ern name for the diver. 



Ship-pam is New Rochelle and was mentioned in 1640. Tooker 

 thought this a personal name, derived from keechepam or shore. 



Sho-rack-ap-pock, the junction of Spuyten Duyvil creek with 

 the Hudson. In the manor grant of Philipseborough the creek is 

 called " the kill Shorackkapock," forming part of the south line. 

 Tooker places the name at the outlet, writing it Shorakapkock, and 

 defining it as far as the sitting down place or portage. The need 

 of a portage is not clear. 



Sick-ham, a place in Cortlandt, Tooker thought a personal name. 



Sigg-hes was a great boulder and landmark in Greenburg. In 

 one deed it is mentioned as " a great rock called by the Indians 

 Sigghes." It was also called Meghkeekassin, the great stone. 

 Tooker derives it from, siogke-ompsk-it, at the hard rock. 



Sin-na-mon was mentioned by Bolton. 



Sint Sinck is derived by Tooker from the Delaware word asine- 

 sing, stony place. Maetsingsing, on the Delaware river, thus means 

 place where stones are gathered together. In various forms it fre- 

 quently occurs. Locally the name was written Sintinck in 1650. 



Si-o-as-cock is one of Bolton's local names. 



The Si-Wa-noys were a people living on the sound and East river, 

 from Norwalk to Hellgate. They were probably Suwanoes or 

 south people. 



Sna-ka-pins is now Cornell's Neck. Tooker thought this a per- 



