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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  tenkes. 
  Tooker 
  rendered 
  this 
  name 
  opossum, 
  which 
  is 
  waping 
  in 
  

   Delaware. 
  

  

  Wa-na-ka-wagh-kin 
  of 
  1683 
  is 
  now 
  Iona 
  island, 
  a 
  pleasant 
  place. 
  

  

  Wau-ma-in-uck 
  is 
  Bolton's 
  name 
  for 
  Orienta, 
  which 
  Scharf 
  says 
  

   is 
  an 
  error, 
  and 
  that 
  East 
  Neck 
  should 
  have 
  been 
  Mamaroneck, 
  

   agreeing 
  with 
  French. 
  Tooker 
  accepts 
  Bolton's 
  name 
  for 
  Delancey's 
  

   Neck, 
  defining 
  it 
  land 
  round 
  about. 
  

  

  Weck-qua-es-keck 
  is 
  the 
  more 
  frequent 
  form 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  variable 
  

   name. 
  In 
  a 
  deed 
  of 
  1682 
  the 
  tract 
  thus 
  called 
  extended 
  " 
  southerly 
  

   to 
  a 
  creek 
  or 
  fall 
  called 
  by 
  the 
  Indians 
  Weghquagsike." 
  In 
  another 
  

   the 
  creek 
  is 
  called 
  Weghqueghe. 
  It 
  was 
  Wickerscreeke 
  in 
  1680, 
  

   and 
  Wechgaeck 
  in 
  1642. 
  O'Callaghan 
  included 
  under 
  this 
  name 
  

   a 
  tract 
  from 
  the 
  Hudson 
  to 
  the 
  East 
  river, 
  defining 
  it 
  as 
  the 
  country 
  

   of 
  birch 
  bark, 
  from 
  wigwos, 
  birch 
  bark, 
  and 
  keag, 
  country. 
  Bol- 
  

   ton 
  made 
  it 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  bark 
  kettle, 
  which 
  was 
  made 
  of 
  birch. 
  

   Tooker 
  wrote 
  it 
  Weckquaskeek, 
  saying 
  that 
  Bolton's 
  definition 
  was 
  

   wrong, 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  should 
  be 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  marsh 
  or 
  bog. 
  

  

  Wegh-kan-de-co 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Pocanteco, 
  slightly 
  changed. 
  

  

  We-nan-ni-nis-si-os, 
  a 
  small 
  pond 
  on 
  Van 
  Cortlandt's 
  purchase, 
  

   may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  weenomesippog, 
  a 
  grapevine. 
  

  

  Wen-ne-bees, 
  a 
  place 
  in 
  Cortlandt. 
  Tooker 
  says 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  personal 
  

   name, 
  but 
  with 
  locative 
  might 
  mean 
  at 
  the 
  good 
  tasted 
  spring. 
  

  

  We-puc 
  creek 
  may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  weepit, 
  a 
  tooth, 
  but 
  woapeck, 
  

   ginseng, 
  is 
  better. 
  

  

  Wes-se-ca-now 
  for 
  Weckquaeskeck. 
  The 
  chiefs 
  of 
  Wossecamer 
  

   and 
  Wescawanus 
  were 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1690.. 
  

  

  Wheer-cock 
  was 
  the 
  southeast 
  corner 
  of 
  the 
  Lewisboro 
  purchase 
  

   of 
  1708. 
  

  

  Wi-ki-son 
  island 
  in 
  the 
  East 
  river. 
  The 
  name 
  may 
  refer 
  to 
  

   reeds. 
  

  

  Wish-qua 
  appeared 
  as 
  a 
  tract 
  north 
  of 
  Croton 
  river 
  in 
  1685. 
  It 
  

   is 
  applied 
  to 
  Canopus 
  creek, 
  and 
  Tooker 
  defines 
  it 
  the 
  end, 
  probably 
  

   from 
  wanashque. 
  

  

  Wo-nonk-pa-koonk 
  was 
  the 
  northeast 
  corner 
  of 
  the 
  Lewisboro 
  

   purchase, 
  and 
  may 
  now 
  be 
  in 
  Connecticut. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  contrac- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  Wunnompamukquok, 
  in 
  an 
  open 
  place. 
  

  

  Wys-qua-qua 
  creek 
  was 
  at 
  Dobbs 
  Ferry. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  from 
  weh- 
  

   quohke, 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  land, 
  either 
  as 
  a 
  boundary 
  or 
  from 
  crossing 
  

   the 
  river. 
  

  

  