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  Cheese-kook 
  creek 
  is 
  a 
  small 
  tributary 
  of 
  the 
  Ramapo. 
  From 
  the 
  

   Delaware, 
  chees, 
  a 
  hide, 
  or 
  cheessack, 
  fur. 
  

  

  The 
  top 
  of 
  Es-sa-we-te-ne 
  hill 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  line 
  of 
  land 
  

   bought 
  in 
  1687, 
  between 
  the 
  Nyack 
  hills 
  and 
  Hackensack 
  river. 
  

  

  Ge-ma-kie, 
  one 
  of 
  four 
  Indian 
  names 
  of 
  tracts 
  in 
  Samuel 
  Beyard's 
  

   purchase 
  of 
  1703. 
  It 
  is 
  probably 
  from 
  a 
  word 
  meaning 
  beaver, 
  

   which 
  is 
  tamaque 
  in 
  Delaware. 
  

  

  Hack-en-sack, 
  usually 
  rendered 
  lowland, 
  a 
  river 
  flowing 
  south. 
  

   It 
  varies 
  much 
  in 
  form, 
  as 
  Achkinkehacky 
  in 
  1645, 
  Achkinkeshaky 
  

   in 
  1660, 
  Hackinkasacky 
  in 
  1660, 
  etc. 
  

  

  Ruttenber 
  defined 
  it 
  stream 
  that 
  unites 
  with 
  another 
  in 
  low 
  level 
  

   ground. 
  Trumbull 
  thought 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  Huc-quan- 
  

   sauk, 
  hook 
  mouth, 
  from 
  the 
  curve 
  of 
  its 
  outlet. 
  

  

  Hack-yack-awck 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  Kakiate 
  patent 
  in 
  1696, 
  and 
  

   the 
  correct 
  one. 
  

  

  He-a-ma-weck 
  or 
  Peasqua 
  creek 
  was 
  on 
  its 
  western 
  boundary. 
  

  

  Hes-pa-tingh 
  was 
  near 
  Hackensack 
  in 
  1657. 
  

  

  Ja-a-pough 
  was 
  a 
  tract 
  in 
  the 
  Blandia 
  Bayard 
  purchase 
  of 
  1700. 
  

  

  Jan-de-kagh 
  was 
  another 
  of 
  these. 
  

  

  Ka-ki-ate 
  patent 
  was 
  issued 
  in 
  1696, 
  and 
  there 
  were 
  later 
  dis- 
  

   putes 
  about 
  it. 
  It 
  was 
  also 
  called 
  Hackyackawck 
  and 
  Yachtaucke. 
  

   A 
  reasonable 
  derivation 
  would 
  be 
  from 
  kuhkuhheg, 
  a 
  boundary. 
  

   SpafTord 
  said, 
  in 
  speaking 
  of 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Hempstead 
  : 
  " 
  Kakiat 
  is 
  

   the 
  Indian 
  name 
  of 
  part 
  of 
  this 
  town, 
  long 
  since 
  settled 
  by 
  people 
  

   from 
  Hempstead, 
  Queens 
  county, 
  who 
  gave 
  it 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  New 
  

   Hempstead 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  But 
  the 
  village 
  has 
  constantly 
  retained 
  the 
  

   original 
  name 
  of 
  Kakiat/' 
  

  

  Ku-mo-che-nack 
  was 
  an 
  Indian 
  name 
  of 
  Haverstraw 
  bay, 
  as 
  

   given 
  by 
  Ruttenber, 
  differing 
  from 
  other 
  forms 
  in 
  the 
  initial 
  letter. 
  

  

  A 
  Mohawk 
  river 
  appears 
  in 
  this 
  county 
  on 
  one 
  map, 
  flowing 
  

   south. 
  

  

  Ma-ha-ick-a-mack 
  or 
  Neversink 
  river 
  here 
  refers 
  to 
  a 
  fishing 
  

   place. 
  

  

  Ma-he-qua 
  run 
  on 
  a 
  tract 
  bought 
  in 
  1694. 
  

  

  Ma-son-i-cus 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  a 
  history 
  of 
  this 
  county 
  as 
  the 
  Indian 
  

   name 
  of 
  a 
  hamlet 
  sduth 
  of 
  Tallman's. 
  Perhaps 
  from 
  assonog, 
  

   nettles. 
  

  

  Mat-te-a-wan 
  mountains. 
  This 
  name 
  has 
  been 
  already 
  considered. 
  

  

  