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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 → |
| Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) | 50 | 5,568 | Original → |
Passages
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Albert S. Gatschet and J. B. N. Hewitt, and to Mr. William R. Gerard, of New York. The compilation of names and the ascertaining of their locatives and probable meanings has interested me. Where those names have been…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Hudson's River and Its Islands. Muhheakun'nuk, "The great waters or sea, which are constantly in motion, either ebbing or flowing," was written by Chief Hendrick Aupaumut, in his history of the Muhheakun'nuk nation, …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] record on the river which now bears his name. Five years after Hudson's advent Adriaen Block wrote _Manhates_ as the name of what is now New York Island, and later, De Vries wrote _Manates_ as the name of Staten Isla…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Powell, Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, wrote me: "In the alphabet of this office the name may be transliterated _Kanoñnò'ge._ It signifies 'Place of Reeds.'" Perhaps what was known as the "Reed Valley" was refe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Hackinsacks. Minnisais is not a record name. It was conferred on Bedloe's Island by Dr. Schoolcraft from the Ojibwe or Chippeway dialect, [FN] in which it means "Small island." * * * * * [FN] The Objibwe (Objibwai) w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] of Helle"--now known as the Dardanelles--which received its Greek name from _Helle,_ daughter of Athamas, King of Thebes, who, the fable tells us, was drowned in passing over it. Probably the Dutch sailors regarded t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] (Nelson's "Indians of New Jersey," 122.) In other words, the Indians conveyed places on the island, including specifically their "bushnet fishing-place," and by the later deed to Lovelace, conveyed all unsold places.…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Minnahanock, given as the name of Blackwell's Island, was interpreted by Dr. Trumbull from _Munnŏhan,_ Mass., the indefinite form of _Munnŏh,_ "Island," and _auke,_ Mass., "Land" or place. Dr. O'Callaghan's "Island h…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] on their way north and east." (Van Tienhoven, 1650.) "Where the Indians cross to bring their pelteries." (De Laet, 1635.) The crossing-place is now known as Pavonia. The path crossed the Spuyten Duyvil at Harlem and …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] "_Moskehtu,_ a meadow." (Eliot.) Papinemen (1646), Pahparinnamen (1693), Papirinimen (modern), are forms of the Indian name used interchangeably by the Dutch with Spuyten Duivel to designate a place where the tide-ov…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Mr. Riker's assignment of the name to the Spuyten Duivel passage is probably correct. The "neck, island or hummock" was a low elevation in a salt marsh or meadow. It was utilized as a landing place by the Indians who…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] better discharge of his duty, built fires at night, armed himself with sword and firebrands, vociferated loudly, and acted the character of a devil very well. At all events the African is the only historical devil th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Gerard suggests "_P'skurikûppog_ (Lenape), 'forked, fine harbor,' so called because it was safely shut in by Tubby Hook, [FN-1] and another Hook at the north, the current taking a bend around the curved point of rock…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Wickquaskeck is entered on Van der Donck's map as the name of an Indian village or castle the location of which is claimed by Bolton to have been at Dobb's Ferry, where the name is of record. It was, however, the nam…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] A part of the territory of this tribe is loosely described in a deed of 1682, as extending--"from the rock Sighes, on Hudson's River, to the Neperah, and thence north until you come to the eastward of the head of the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Wetquescheck." He did so, but the castles, three in number, strongly palisaded, were found empty. Two of them were burned. The inmates, it was learned, had gathered at a large castle or village on Patucquapaug, now k…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-1] December 1st, 1680, Frederick Phillips petitioned for liberty to purchase "a parcel of land on each side of the creek called by the Indians Pocanteco,... adjoining the land he hath already purchased; there to …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Y., ii, 237.) It seems to have been from the name of a sachem, otherwise known as Weskora, Weskheun, Weskomen, in 1685. _Wuski,_ Len., "New, young;" _Wuske'éne_ Williams, "A youth." [Illustration: SOUTHERN GATEWAY OF…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] and for making bread, or round loaves. (See Tuckahoe, L. I.) Kitchiwan, modern form; _Kitchawanc,_ treaty of 1643; _Kichtawanghs,_ treaty of 1645; _Kitchiwan,_ deed of 1645; _Kitchawan,_ treaty of 1664; the name of a…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Schoolcraft of _Noten,_ Chip., "The wind." "Bounded on the south by Scroton's River" (deed of 1703); "Called by the Indians Kightawank, and by the English Knotrus River." (Col. N. Y, Land Papers, 79.) * * * * * [FN] …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] It is an equivalent of _Newás_ (Len.), "promontory." (See Nyack-on-the-Hudson.) Nannakans, given as the name of a clan residing on Croton River, is an equivalent of _Narragans_ (_s_ foreign plural), meaning "People o…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Peppeneghek is a record form of the name quoted as that of what is now known as Cross-river. Kewighecack, the name of a boundmark of Van Cortlandt's Manor, is written on the map of the Manor _Keweghteuack_ as the nam…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Appamaghpogh, now _Amawalk,_ seems to have been extended to a tract of land without specific location. It is presumed to have been the name of a fishing place on what is now known as Mohegan Lake _Appéh-ama-paug,_ "T…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] _Sachus_ and _Sachoes_ are equivalents, and probably refer to the mouth or outlet of the small or MacGregorie's Creek--_Sakoes_ or _Saukoes._ _Sackonck_ has substantially the same meaning--_Sakunk,_ "At the mouth or …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-2] Peake, an orthography of _Peak,_ English; Dutch, _Piek_; pronounced _Pek_ (_e_ as _e_ in wet); English, _Pek_ or _Peck._ Kittatinny, erroneously claimed to mean "Endless hills," and to describe the Highlands a…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] designated certain peaks by specific names. "Among these aboriginal people," wrote Heckewelder, "every tree was not the tree, and every mountain the mountain; but, on the contrary, everything is distinguished by its …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] (See Titicus.) Aquehung, Acqueahounck, etc., was translated by Dr. O'Callaghan, "The place of peace." from _Aquene,_ Nar., "peace," and _unk,_ locative. Dr. Trumbull wrote, "A place _on this side_ of some other place…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Mass., "A high place," "A height." (Trumbull.) See Ishpatinau. Quarepos, of record as the name of the district of country called by the English "White Plains," from the primary prevalence there of white balsam (Dr. O…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Armonck, claimed as the name of Byram's River, was probably that of a fishing place. In 1649 the name of the stream is of record, "Called by the Indians _Seweyruck._" In the same record the land is called _Haseco_ an…