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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)] Trumbull wrote that _Wehawing_ "Seemed" to him as "most probably from _Wehoak,_ Mohegan, and _-ing,_ Lenape, locative, 'At the end (of the Palisades)'" and in his interpretation violated his own rules of interpretati…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] It is from _Sikkâkâskeg,_ meaning "Salt sedge marsh." (Gerard.) The Dutch found snakes on Snake Hill and called it Slangberg, literally, "Snake Hill." Passaic is a modern orthography of _Pasaeck_ (Unami-Lenape), Germ…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] with the Passaic, and also as the name of a town in Passaic County, N. J., as well as in Pompton Falls, Pompton Plains, etc., and historically as the name of an Indian clan, appears primarily as the name of the Ramap…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Fifty years later the tribal title is entered in the treaty of Easton (1758) as the "Wappings, Opings or Pomptons," [FN-2] as claimants of an interest in lands in northern New Jersey, [FN-3] subordinately to the "Min…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] County. The tract to which the name was extended in Rockland County is described, "Commonly called by the Indians _Kackyachteweke,_ on a neck of land which runs under a great hill, bounded on the north by a creek cal…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The suffix _-ook, -oke, -aki,_ etc., shows that it was the name of land or place (N. J., _-ahke;_ Len. _-aki_). It is probably met in _Cheshek-ohke,_ Ct., translated by Dr. Trumbull from _Kussukoe,_ Moh., "High," and…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The tract is now known as Strickland Plain, [FN-3] and is described as "Plain and water-land"--"A valley but little above tidewater; on the southwest an extended marsh now reclaimed in part." The same general feature…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] rock on the top of the hill," called Mattasinck. In the surveyor's notes the rock is described as "a certain rock in the form of a sugar loaf." The name is probably an equivalent of _Mat-assin-ink,_ "At (or to) a bad…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Adriaen Block wrote, in 1614-16, _Nahicans_ as the name of the people on Montauk Point; Eliot wrote _Naiyag_ (_-ag_ formative); Roger Williams wrote _Nanhigan_ and _Narragan;_ Van der Donck wrote _Narratschoan_ on th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Gerard wrote: "The Algonquian root _Ne_ (written by the English _Náï_) means 'To come to a point,' or 'To form a point.' From this came Ojibwe _Naiá-shi,_ 'Point of land in a body of water.' The Lenape _Newás,_ with …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] * * * * * [FN] The equivalent Mass. word is _paug,_ "Where water is," or "Place of water." (Trumbull.) Quassa-paug or Quas-paug, is the largest lake in Woodbury, Ct. Dr. Trumbull failed to detect the derivative of _Q…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] They are from the root _Mawe,_ "Meeting," _Mawewi,_ "Assembly" (Zeisb.), _i. e._ "Brought together," as "Where paths or streams or boundaries come together." The reference may have been to the place where the stream …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Land Papers, 162.) The south side of Stony Point was then accepted as the "North side of the land called Haverstraw." The hills in immediate proximity, at varying points of compass, are the Bochberg (Dutch, _Bochelbe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Dongan in 1694, and vacated by act of the Colonial Assembly in 1708, approved by the Queen in 1708. It included Gov. Dongan's two purchases of 1784-85. {_sic_} It was not surveyed; its southeast, or properly its nort…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Reckgawank, of record in 1645 as the name of Haverstraw, appears in several later forms. Dr. O'Callaghan (Hist. New Neth.) noted: "Sessegehout, chief of Rewechnong of Haverstraw." In Col. Hist. N. Y., "Keseshout [FN-…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The deed reads: "A piece of land and meadow lying upon Hudson's River in several parcels, called by the Indians Nawasink, Yan Dakah, Caquaney, and Aquamack, within the limits of Averstraw, bounded on the east and nor…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The tract was known for years as "The end place." Sankapogh, Indian deed to Van Cortlandt, 1683--Sinkapogh, Songepogh, Tongapogh--is given as the name of a small stream flowing to the Hudson south of the stream calle…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Papers, 99.) Long known as Buttermilk Falls and more recently as Highland Falls. In early days the falls were one of the most noted features on the lower Hudson. They were formed by the discharge over a precipice of …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] the traditionary abundance of rattle-snakes on it, though few have been seen there in later years. * * * * * [FN] "I think your reading of _Muchattoos_ as an orthography of original _Matchatchu's,_ is very plausible.…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Tans Kamer," or River of the Dance Chamber, and the point immediately south of its mouth, "de Bedrieghlyke Hoek" (Dutch, Bedrieglijk), meaning "a deceitful, fraudulent hook," or corner, cape, or angle. Presumably the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] as "The High Hills to the west of the Highlands." 'In a legal brief in the controversy to determine finally the northwest line of the Evans Patent, the name is written Skonanake, and the claim made that it was the hi…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] McKnight (1898) on the north side of the Cornwall and Monroe line and very near the present road past the Houghton farm, near which the castle stood. The later "cabin" of the early sachem is plainly located. * * * * …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] opposite the house where John McLean now (1756) dwells, near the said hill, and also lived on the north bank of Murderers' Creek, where Colonel Mathews lives. The first station of his boundaries is a stone set in the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] the chief may have resided. _Rombout_ (Dutch) means "Bull-fly." It could hardly have been the name of a run of water. Mistucky, the name of a small stream in the town of Warwick, has lost some of its letters. _Mishqu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN] * * * * * [FN] The traditional places of residence of several of the sachems who signed the Wawayanda deed is stated by a writer in "Magazine of American History," and may be repeated on that authority, viz: "Os…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Y.--the first form, one of the most familiar names in Orange County, is preserved as that of a town, a stream of water, and of a large district of country known as the Wawayanda Patent, in which latter connection it …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Orange County and is now in Vernon, New Jersey, where it is still known as the "Wawayanda Homestead." Within a musket-shot of the site of the ancient dwelling flows Wawayanda Creek, and with the exception of the mead…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] _Waway,_ "Winding around many times";--_-anda,_ "action, motion" (radical _-an,_ "to move, to go"), and, inferentially, the place where the action of the verb is performed, as in _Guttanda,_ "Taste it," the action of…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-7] From Jacobus Bruyn came the ancient hamlet still known as Bruynswick. He erected a stone mansion on the tract, in the front wall of which was cut on a marble tablet, "Jacobus Bruyn. 1724." The house was destro…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Soc." Memorasink, Kahogh, Gatawanuk, and Ghittatawagh, names handed down in the Indian deed to Governor Dongan in 1684, have no other record, nor were they ever specifically located. The lands conveyed to him extende…