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tenkes. Tooker rendered this name oposstim, which is waping in 

 Delaware. 



Wa-na-ka-wagh-kin of 1683 is now lona island, a pleasant place. 



Wau-ma-in-uck is Bolton's name for Orienta, which Scharf says 

 is an error, and that East Neck should have been Mamaroneck, 

 agreeing with French. Tooker accepts Bolton's name for Delancey's 

 Neck, defining it land round about. 



Weck-qua-es-keck is the more frequent form of a very variable 

 name. In a deed of 1682 the tract thus called extended "southerly 

 to a creek or fall called by the Indians Weghquagsike." In another 

 the creek is called Weghqueghe. It was Wickerscreeke in 1680, 

 and Weehgaeck in 1642. O'Callaghan included under this name 

 a tract from the Hudson to the East river, defining it as the country 

 of birch bark, .from wigwos, birch bark, and keag, country. Bol- 

 ton made it place of the bark kettle, which was made of birch. 

 Tooker wrote it Weckquaskeek, saying that Bolton's definition was 

 wrong, and that it should be at the end of the marsh or bog. 



Wegh-kan-de-co is a name for Pocanteco, slightly changed. 



We-nan-ni-nis-si-os, a small pond on Van Cortlandt's purchase, 

 may be derived from weenomesippog, a grapevine. 



Wen-ne-bees, a place in Cortlandt. Tooker says it is a personal 

 name, but with locative might mean at the good tasted spring. 



We-puc creek may be derived from weepit, a tooth, but woapeck, 

 ginseng, is better.* 



Wes-se-ca-now for Weckquaeskeck. The chiefs of Wossecamer 

 and Wescawanus were mentioned in 1690. 



Wheer-cock was the southeast corner of the Lewisboro purchase 

 of 1708. 



Wi-ki-son island in the East river. The name may refer to 

 reeds. 



Wish-qua appeared as a tract north of Croton river in 1685. It 

 is applied to Canopus creek, and Tooker defines it' the end, probably 

 from wanashque. 



Wo-nonk-pa-koonk was the northeast corner of the Lewisboro 

 purchase, and may now be in Connecticut. It may be a contrac- 

 tion of Wunnompamukquok, in an open place. 



Wys-qua-qua creek was at Dobbs Ferry. It may be from weh- 

 quohke, the end of the land, either as a boundary or from crossing 

 the river. 



