Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
This name is recorded in the deed of 28 September, 1669, as "the hook called Saperewack." The winding waterway from the head of kill Muscoota, at 225th street, was known as Paparinemin or Papirinemin, a name applied also' to the island of Kingsbridge which bounded the stream on its northerly side, and which seems to be derived from the Delaware papallenumen, "to continually make a false start," which would indicate to the native mind the special peculiarity of the tides of this locality, according to Mr Harrington.
The limits within which the name seems to have been applied were from the head of Harlem river around Marble hill, as far west as the sharp bend in INDIAN NOTES UPPER MANHATTAN S3 the stream caused by an extensive projection of marshy land from the southern end of Spuyten Duyvil hill, now occupied in part by the Johnson Foundry.