﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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  Heckewelder, 
  was 
  a 
  Delaware 
  name 
  for 
  New 
  York 
  and 
  West- 
  

   chester. 
  The 
  story 
  has 
  been 
  mentioned 
  under 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  New 
  

   York 
  county. 
  Tooker 
  places 
  this 
  in 
  Pelham 
  and 
  disagrees 
  with 
  

   Heckewelder, 
  defining 
  the 
  name 
  as 
  a 
  cultivated 
  Held 
  or 
  plantation, 
  

   from 
  lapechwahacking, 
  land 
  again 
  broken 
  up. 
  

  

  Ma-cok-as-si-no, 
  at 
  the 
  big 
  rock, 
  is 
  used 
  by 
  Bolton 
  for 
  a 
  tract 
  

   along 
  the 
  Hudson, 
  but 
  varies 
  from 
  the 
  original 
  name. 
  

  

  Ma-cook-nack 
  point. 
  Sauthier 
  has 
  also 
  a 
  Macookpack 
  pond, 
  but 
  

   in 
  Dutchess 
  county. 
  

  

  Ma-en-ne-pis 
  creek 
  was 
  mentioned 
  by 
  Bolton. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  de- 
  

   rived 
  from 
  manunne, 
  it 
  is 
  slow, 
  and 
  nepis, 
  water. 
  

  

  Ma-gri-ga-ri-es 
  or 
  Magriganies 
  lake 
  is 
  in 
  Yorktown. 
  Perhaps 
  

   something 
  large. 
  

  

  Ma-gri-ga-ri-es 
  is 
  also 
  an 
  Indian 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  creek 
  at 
  Peeks- 
  

   kill. 
  

  

  Ma-har-nes 
  or 
  Mehanas 
  was 
  also 
  called 
  Kechkawes 
  kill, 
  and 
  

   flows 
  through 
  Bedford. 
  Tooker 
  gives 
  it 
  as 
  Myanas, 
  Mehanos, 
  

   Meahagh, 
  etc., 
  and 
  says 
  it 
  was 
  from 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Mayanne, 
  who 
  

   was 
  killed 
  in 
  1683. 
  It 
  means 
  he 
  who 
  gathers 
  together. 
  Meanous 
  

   river 
  appears 
  in 
  a 
  deed 
  of 
  1700. 
  

  

  Ma-ka-kas-sin 
  is 
  also 
  written 
  Meghkeekassin, 
  Mehkakhsin, 
  

   Amackassin, 
  etc., 
  and 
  may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  the 
  Delaware 
  word 
  mee- 
  

   chekachsinik, 
  at 
  the 
  big 
  rock. 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  large 
  rock 
  and 
  landmark 
  

   west 
  of 
  the 
  Neperah, 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  briefly 
  noticed 
  as 
  giving 
  name 
  to 
  a 
  

   tract 
  of 
  land. 
  It 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1682 
  as 
  a 
  great 
  rock, 
  Megh- 
  

   keekassin, 
  on 
  the 
  Neperhan. 
  The 
  name 
  was 
  also 
  given 
  to 
  a 
  neigh- 
  

   boring 
  stream 
  in 
  the 
  manor 
  grant 
  of 
  Philipseborough, 
  " 
  a 
  rivulet 
  

   called 
  by 
  the 
  Indians 
  Meccackassin, 
  so 
  running 
  southward 
  to 
  

   Neperhan." 
  Ruttenber 
  defined 
  it 
  the 
  great 
  stone, 
  the 
  one 
  called 
  

   Sigghes. 
  

  

  Mam-ar'-o-neck 
  has 
  been 
  defined 
  place 
  of 
  rolling 
  stones, 
  a 
  mani- 
  

   fest 
  error. 
  French 
  says 
  it 
  is 
  " 
  pronounced 
  both 
  Mam-a-ro'-neck 
  and 
  

   Mam-ar'-o-neck. 
  The 
  latter 
  is 
  more 
  generally 
  used, 
  and 
  is 
  often 
  

   contracted 
  to 
  Mor-neck 
  or 
  Mar-neck, 
  in 
  common 
  speech." 
  Tooker 
  

   says 
  the 
  river 
  was 
  named 
  after 
  Mamaronock, 
  who 
  was 
  a 
  chief 
  at 
  

   Wiquaeskeck 
  in 
  1644, 
  an 
  d 
  he 
  derives 
  it 
  from 
  mohmoanock, 
  he 
  

   assembles 
  the 
  people. 
  Moworronoke 
  is 
  a 
  variant, 
  and 
  Mamarack 
  

   river 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1661. 
  Scharf 
  says 
  the 
  present 
  spelling 
  dates 
  

  

  