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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
Passages
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] _Aumsûog,_ Mass., "small fishes." As a generic suffix, _-ama'ug,_ Mass., _-ama'uk,_ Del., "fishing-place." "_Ama'ug_ is only used at the end of a compound name, where it is equivalent to _Nameaug,_ at the beginning."…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The tradition has no other merit than the fact that Niamug was a place at which canoes were hauled across the island. Sicktew-hacky (deed of 1638); _Sicketewackey_ (Van der Donck, 1656): "All the lands from Rockaway …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Mattatuck, Ct., written Matetacoke, 1637, Matitacoocke, 1673, which was translated by Dr. Trumbull from Eliot's _Mat-uh'tugh-auke,_ "A place without wood," or badly wooded. (See Titicus.) Cutchogue, Plymouth Records,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Its native name was _taw-kee._" ("The Lenape and their Legends.") The name of another place on Long Island, written _Hogonock,_ is probably an equivalent of Delaware _Hóbbenac_ (Zeisb.), "Potatoes," or "Ground-nuts";…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] equivalent of _Mas._ Massepe, quoted in Dutch records as the name of the Indian fort on Fort Neck, where it seems to have been the name of Stony Brook, is also met in Jamaica Records (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv, 505) as t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] O'Callaghan in his translation of the treaty between the Western Long Island clans, in 1656, is noted in "North and South Hempstead Records," p. 60, "A neck of land called
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] "Flats" is inferred. A considerable division of the Long Island Indians was located in the vicinity, or, as described by De Vries, who visited them in 1643, "near the sea-shore." He found thirty wigwams and three hun…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] settlers." On Delaware Bay it is written _Canaresse_ (1651, not 1656 as stated by Dr. Tooker), and applied to a specific place, described in exact terms: "To the mouth of the bay or river called Bomptjes Hoeck, in th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] i.), the locative on the Delaware is described: "From Christina Creek to _Canarose_ or _Bambo_ Hook." In "Century Dictionary" _Bambo_ is explained: "From the native East Indian name, Malay and Java _bambu_, Canarese …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] the name was that of an Indian owner is not well sustained. The evidence of the Dutch description of the bay as Boompje Hoek, meaning, literally, "Small tree cape, corner or angle," and the fact that small pines did …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The early Dutch navigators were no doubt familiar with it in application to the Widgeon, a species of wild duck, and employed it in connection with the word _-wijk._ Until between 1645 and 1656, the Indians residing …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] In this instance it seems to have been applied to the water of a spring or well on the rising ground which they regarded as of surpassing excellence; from the spring transferred to the hill.
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] island called Najack.... Continuing onward from there, we came to the plantation of the Najack Indians, which was planted with maize, or Turkish Wheat." The Nayacks removed to Staten Island after the sale of their la…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The suffix _-set,_ cannot be applied to an animate object; it is a locative meaning "Less than at." In addition to this objection, Nassaconset is otherwise written Nessaquauke-ecoompt-set, showing that the name belon…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] (See Massepe.) Unsheamuck, otherwise written Unthemamuk, given as the name of Fresh Pond, on the boundary line between Huntington and Smithtown, means "Eel-fishing place." (Tooker.) Suggamuck, the name of what is now…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] land lying upon the north side of Long Island, within the township of Oyster Bay, in Queens County, and known by the name of Matinicock," and in another survey: "A certain small neck of land at a place called Mattini…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] N. Y., is recorded "Podunk Brook." (Cal. Land Papers.) The meaning of the name is uncertain, but from its wide distribution it is obviously from a generic--presumably a corruption of _P'tuk-ohke,_ a neck or corner of…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Manah-ackaquasu-wanock, given as the name of Shelter Island, is a composition of two names, as shown by the record entry, "All that their island of _Ahaquasu-wamuck,_ otherwise called _Manhansack._" _Ahaquasu-wamuck_…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] * * * * * Hudson's River on the West. Neversink, now so written as the name of the hills on the south side of the lower or Raritan Bay, is written _Neuversin_ by Van der Donck, _Neyswesinck_ by Van Tienhoven, _Newaso…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Verdrietig Hoek, or "Tedious Point," of Dutch notation, where, after several forms it culminates in _Navish._ Lindstrom's _Naratic-on,_ on the lower Delaware, was probably Cape May, and an equivalent substantially of…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] (See Nanakan, Nyack-on-the-Hudson, and Orange.) Orange, a familiar name in eastern New Jersey and supposed to refer to the two mountains that bound the Raritan Valley, may have been from the name of a sachem or place…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Watchung (Wacht-unk, Del.) is from _Wachtschu_ (Zeisb.), "Hill or mountain," and _-unk,_ locative, "at" or "on." _Wachtsûnk,_ "On the mountain" (Zeisb.); otherwise written _Wakhunk._ The original application was to a…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] * * * * * [FN-1] Before entering New York Harbor, Hudson anchored his ship below the Narrows and sent out an exploring party in a boat, who entered the Narrows and ascended as far as Bergen Point, where they encounte…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] known in their order as Commoenapa, Aresseck, Bergen, Ahasimus, Hoboken-Hackingh, and Awiehacken. Commoenapa is now preserved as the name of the upland between Communipaw Avenue and Walnut Street, Jersey City, but wa…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] It is almost an hour broad, but has large salt meadows or marshes on the Kil van Kol. It is everywhere accessible by water from the city." Ahasimus--_Achassemus_ in deed to Michael Pauw, 1630--now preserved in Harsim…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] description reads: "A certain parcel of land called Pauwels Hoek, situated westward of the Island Manhates and eastward of Ahasimus, extending from the North River into the valley which runs around it there." (Col. H…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] extending on the south side to Ahasimus; eastward to the river Mauritus, and on the west side surrounded by a valley or morass through which the boundary can be seen with sufficient clearness." (Winfield's Hist. Huds…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] 'elevation' in most of them. _Buckel_ (Germ.), _Bochel_ (Dutch), means 'hump,' 'hump-back.' _Hump_ (Low German) is 'heap,' 'hill.' _Ho-bok-an_ locates a place that is distinguished by a hill, or by a hill in some way…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] _Hacking_ was dropped from the name in 1635. * * * * * [FN-1] An ancient view of the shore-line represents it as a considerable elevation--a hill. [FN-2] Castle Point is just below Wehawken Cove in which Hudson is su…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] varied, as beautiful a scene as one could wish to see. The rocks rise almost perpendicularly to one hundred and fifty feet above the river. Under these heights, about twenty feet above the water, on a shelf about six…