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  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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  Basher, 
  who 
  was 
  either 
  killed 
  there 
  or 
  fell 
  under 
  a 
  deer 
  she 
  was 
  

   bringing 
  home, 
  and 
  was 
  drowned. 
  It 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  contracted 
  

   from 
  Mombasha. 
  The 
  name 
  occurs 
  elsewhere, 
  but 
  Basha 
  mountain 
  

   and 
  pond 
  are 
  here. 
  

  

  Cha-van-go-en 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  Evans 
  patent 
  of 
  -1699, 
  an 
  d 
  seems 
  a 
  

   variant 
  of 
  Shawangunk. 
  

  

  Cheese-cocks 
  patent 
  was 
  given 
  in 
  1701, 
  the 
  name 
  coming 
  from 
  

   a 
  small 
  tributary 
  of 
  the 
  Ramapo. 
  It 
  was 
  afterward 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  

   " 
  tract 
  of 
  upland 
  and 
  meadow," 
  the 
  bounds 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  contested 
  

   later. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  early 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  natural 
  meadow. 
  

   Freeland 
  derived 
  Cheesecocks 
  from 
  chis, 
  up 
  or 
  high, 
  and 
  kauk, 
  land, 
  

   making 
  it 
  high 
  land^ 
  but 
  chees 
  is 
  a 
  Delaware 
  word 
  for 
  hide, 
  and 
  

   cheessack 
  for 
  fur, 
  and 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  from 
  either 
  of 
  these, 
  as 
  a 
  good 
  

   trapping 
  place. 
  

  

  Co-wen-ham's 
  kill, 
  at 
  Plum 
  point, 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  Highlands, 
  was 
  

   mentioned 
  by 
  Ruttenber. 
  It 
  resembles 
  some 
  Indian 
  names, 
  but 
  is 
  

   of 
  doubtful 
  character. 
  

  

  The 
  Cushietank 
  mountains 
  are 
  on 
  the 
  map 
  of 
  1768, 
  and 
  may 
  

   be 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  Cashigton 
  Indians 
  of 
  Orange 
  county, 
  called 
  

   Wolf 
  and 
  Turtle, 
  and 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1745. 
  

  

  Gil-la-ta-wagh 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  Evans 
  grant. 
  

  

  Jo-gee 
  Hill, 
  in 
  Minisink 
  according 
  to 
  Ruttenber, 
  but 
  now 
  in 
  

   Wawayanda, 
  was 
  the 
  home 
  of 
  " 
  Kegh-ge-ka-po-well 
  alias 
  Joghem," 
  

   a 
  grantor 
  of 
  the 
  land 
  in 
  1684J 
  who 
  lived 
  there 
  after 
  his 
  tribe 
  left. 
  

   The 
  name 
  suggests 
  that 
  of 
  Joseph 
  Gee, 
  who 
  gave 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   Colchester 
  in 
  Delaware 
  in 
  1792, 
  but 
  Ruttenber's 
  statement 
  is 
  definite 
  

   on 
  its 
  Indian 
  origin. 
  

  

  Kack-a-wa-wook 
  was 
  a 
  place 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  side 
  of 
  Paltz 
  creek, 
  at 
  

   the 
  north 
  end 
  of 
  one 
  line 
  of 
  the 
  tract 
  asked 
  for 
  by 
  Robert 
  Sanders. 
  

  

  Ka-kagh-get-a-wan 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  Evans 
  tract. 
  

  

  Mak-ha-ken-eck, 
  a 
  tract 
  in 
  the 
  Minisink 
  region 
  in 
  1697. 
  

  

  Mag-ha-wa-e-mus 
  was 
  another 
  tract. 
  

  

  Ma-hack-e-meck 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  Neversink 
  river, 
  which 
  was 
  

   called 
  the 
  Mag-gagh-ka-mi-ek 
  in 
  1694. 
  It 
  was 
  mentioned 
  later 
  as 
  

   the 
  " 
  Mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Mackhacamac 
  Branch 
  of 
  Delaware, 
  where 
  the 
  

   Line 
  settled 
  between 
  New 
  York 
  & 
  New 
  Jersey 
  terminates." 
  Ma- 
  

   hackemeck 
  is 
  now 
  Port 
  Jervis. 
  It 
  appeared 
  as 
  Maghakeneck, 
  al- 
  

  

  