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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Mat-ta-sinck 
  kill 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  south 
  side 
  of 
  a 
  grant 
  of 
  500 
  acres 
  

   made 
  in 
  1694. 
  

  

  Ma-way 
  river 
  in 
  Ramapo 
  suggests 
  ah 
  Indian 
  name. 
  

  

  Mech-ken-to-woon 
  was 
  Wassenaer's 
  name 
  for 
  Indians 
  near 
  the 
  

   Tappan 
  tribe, 
  but 
  they 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  farther 
  north. 
  

  

  Mi-nas 
  Fall 
  creek. 
  Minneash 
  represents 
  fruits 
  of 
  any 
  kind. 
  

  

  Min-es-ce-on-go 
  was 
  called 
  Minisconga 
  creek 
  in 
  1790, 
  and 
  flows 
  

   into 
  the 
  Hudson 
  just 
  below 
  Stony 
  Point. 
  Ruttenber 
  derives 
  it 
  

   from 
  minnis, 
  an 
  island, 
  co 
  or 
  con, 
  object, 
  and 
  ga, 
  place, 
  referring 
  

   to 
  Stony 
  Point 
  when 
  an 
  island. 
  Schoolcraft 
  wrote 
  it 
  Minniscongo, 
  

   almost 
  an 
  island. 
  

  

  Mon-sey 
  postoffice 
  is 
  in 
  Ramapo, 
  the 
  name 
  being 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Wolf 
  

   tribe. 
  The 
  Minsis 
  occupied 
  land 
  along 
  the 
  New 
  Jersey 
  border 
  of 
  

   New 
  York, 
  and 
  the 
  name 
  has 
  many 
  forms. 
  In 
  1885 
  some 
  Canadian 
  

   Delawares 
  said, 
  referring 
  to 
  their 
  supposed 
  residence 
  on 
  Manhattan 
  

   island 
  : 
  " 
  When 
  we 
  were 
  driven 
  back 
  by 
  the 
  whites, 
  our 
  nation 
  

   became 
  divided 
  into 
  two 
  bands 
  ; 
  one 
  was 
  termed 
  Minsi, 
  the 
  great 
  

   stone; 
  the 
  other 
  was 
  called 
  Wenawmien, 
  down 
  the 
  river, 
  they 
  being 
  

   located 
  farther 
  down 
  the 
  stream 
  than 
  our 
  settlements." 
  The 
  transla- 
  

   tion 
  is 
  unique, 
  but 
  Monsey 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  tribe 
  rather 
  than 
  the 
  

   animal. 
  

  

  Na-nash-nuck 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  S. 
  Bayard's 
  four 
  tracts 
  in 
  1703. 
  

  

  Na-nu-et, 
  a 
  place 
  in 
  Clarkstown, 
  was 
  named 
  from 
  an 
  Indian 
  

   chief. 
  

  

  Nar-ra-sunck 
  lands 
  in 
  Orangetown 
  were 
  so 
  called 
  as 
  late 
  as 
  1769. 
  

   Ruttenber 
  derives 
  this 
  from 
  na, 
  good, 
  unk, 
  land, 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  satis- 
  

   factory. 
  

  

  Naur-a-shank 
  creek 
  comes 
  from 
  this 
  and 
  suggests 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   Neversink. 
  Narranshaw 
  creek, 
  in 
  Orangetown, 
  is 
  the 
  same. 
  

  

  Nev-er-sink, 
  often 
  Newessingh 
  in 
  early 
  papers, 
  is 
  elsewhere 
  

   treated. 
  

  

  Ny-ack 
  is 
  from 
  naiag, 
  a 
  point. 
  

  

  Pas-cack 
  creek, 
  in 
  Orangetown, 
  was 
  Peasqna 
  in 
  1696. 
  It 
  is 
  south 
  

   of 
  Scotland 
  and 
  was 
  also 
  called 
  Heamaweck. 
  From 
  peasik, 
  a 
  small 
  

   thing 
  or 
  place. 
  

  

  Pe-ruck 
  was 
  another 
  of 
  S. 
  Bayard's 
  tracts. 
  

  

  Po-ca-toc-ton, 
  rhrr 
  almost 
  spent, 
  as 
  given 
  by 
  French. 
  The 
  last 
  

  

  