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  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  I3I 
  

  

  Sa-po-kan-ick-an 
  was 
  near 
  land 
  patented 
  June 
  7, 
  1639, 
  and 
  was 
  

   *in 
  the 
  Ninth 
  ward 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  Land 
  was 
  also 
  bought 
  at 
  Sapo- 
  

   kannickan 
  in 
  1640. 
  Ruttenber 
  placed 
  this 
  below 
  Greenwich 
  avenue, 
  

   and 
  supposed 
  it 
  meant 
  a 
  carrying 
  place, 
  from 
  sipon, 
  a 
  river, 
  and 
  

   oningan, 
  a 
  portage. 
  Greenwich 
  point 
  was 
  called 
  Sapohannickan 
  in 
  

   1638 
  and 
  Sappokanike 
  in 
  1680. 
  Tooker 
  quotes 
  from 
  early 
  docu- 
  

   ments 
  some 
  facts 
  bearing 
  on 
  this 
  name, 
  which 
  also 
  occurs 
  on 
  Long 
  

   Island. 
  In 
  1639 
  there 
  was 
  on 
  Manhattan 
  island 
  " 
  a 
  piece 
  of 
  land 
  

   near 
  Sapokanikan 
  bounded 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  by 
  the 
  strand 
  road." 
  The 
  

   same 
  year 
  there 
  was 
  mentioned 
  on 
  this 
  island 
  a 
  " 
  Tobacco 
  planta- 
  

   tion 
  near 
  Sapohanican 
  with 
  palisades 
  around 
  it." 
  In 
  1640 
  appears 
  

   " 
  this 
  present 
  plantation 
  situate 
  against 
  the 
  reed- 
  valley 
  beyond 
  Sap- 
  

   pokanican 
  on 
  the 
  Island 
  Manhate." 
  Frenow 
  suggested 
  that 
  this 
  

   was 
  an 
  Indian 
  village 
  near 
  Gansevoort 
  street. 
  Tooker 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  

   name 
  is 
  from 
  the 
  Del. 
  Skappeu, 
  ' 
  wet,' 
  hakihakan, 
  ' 
  a 
  field, 
  planta- 
  

   tion, 
  land 
  broken 
  up 
  for 
  cultivation.' 
  Probably 
  a 
  wet 
  or 
  moist 
  field 
  

   near 
  the 
  meadow, 
  on 
  low 
  ground." 
  This 
  place, 
  however, 
  was 
  not 
  

   the 
  tobacco 
  plantation, 
  but 
  near 
  it. 
  

  

  Schep-moes 
  kill, 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1639, 
  was 
  between 
  47th 
  and 
  52d 
  

   streets, 
  and 
  the 
  name 
  seems 
  from 
  sepoemese, 
  a 
  little 
  rivulet. 
  

  

  The 
  Indians 
  near 
  Manhattan 
  called 
  the 
  Dutch 
  Schwonnack 
  or 
  

   Swaneckes, 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  salt 
  water. 
  

  

  Ten-ke-nas, 
  an 
  uninhabited 
  tract, 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Ward's 
  island 
  

   in 
  1637, 
  when 
  it 
  was 
  purchased. 
  

  

  Wer-pos 
  is 
  the 
  thicket, 
  according 
  to 
  Tooker, 
  but 
  Schoolcraft 
  

   wrote 
  it 
  Warpoes, 
  deriving 
  it 
  from 
  wawbose, 
  a 
  hare, 
  and 
  calling 
  it 
  

   place 
  of 
  rabbits. 
  The 
  latter 
  has 
  no 
  support 
  in 
  eastern 
  dialects, 
  nor 
  

   does 
  the 
  former 
  seem 
  well 
  sustained. 
  Ruttenber 
  speaks 
  of 
  it 
  as 
  

   Warpoes, 
  placing 
  it 
  on 
  high 
  land 
  near 
  a 
  pond 
  formerly 
  in 
  Centre 
  

   street. 
  

  

  NIAGARA 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  A-jo'-yok-ta, 
  fishing 
  creek, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  Johnson's 
  creek. 
  

   The 
  latter 
  name 
  belongs 
  to 
  a 
  village 
  here, 
  but 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  creek 
  

   is 
  in 
  Orleans 
  county. 
  

  

  A-qua-ra-ge, 
  near 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  in 
  1687, 
  is 
  an 
  abbreviation 
  of 
  

   the 
  following 
  name. 
  

  

  Ca-ha-qua-ra-ghe 
  has 
  been 
  defined 
  neck 
  just 
  under 
  the 
  chin, 
  and 
  

   seems 
  appropriate 
  to 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Niagara, 
  which 
  means 
  a 
  neck, 
  

  

  