Y., iv, 177.) In the Treaty of Easton, 1758,

the Indian title to land conveyed to New Jersey is described : "Beginning at the Station Point between the Province of New Jersey

and New York, at the most northerly end of an Indian settlement on

the Delaware, known by the name of Casheitong." Station Point,

called also Station Rock, is about three miles southeast of the present village of Cochecton, on a flat at a bend in the river, by old survey twenty-two miles in a straight line from the mouth of Maghaghkamik Creek, now Carpenter's Point, in the town of Deerpark,

Orange County. Cochecton Falls, so called, are a rocky rapid in

a narrow gorge covering a fall of two or three hundred feet, the

obstruction throwing the water and the deposits brought down

back upon the low lands. The Callicoon flows to the Delaware a

few miles northeast of the falls. Between the latter and the mouth

of the Callicoon lies the Cochecton Flats or valley. The precise

location of "Station Point or Rock," described as "At the most

northerly end" of the Indian village, has not been ascertained, but

can be readily found. The late Hon. John C. Curtis, of Coctiecton,

wrote: "Our beautiful valley, from Cochecton Falls to the mouth

of the Callicoon, was called, by the Indians, Cushetunk, or low

lands," the locative of the name having been handed down from

generation to generation, and an interpretation of the name which

is inferentially correct. There is no such word as Cash or Cush

in the Delaware dialect, however; it stands here obviously as a

form of K'sch, intensive -- K'schiecton (Len. Eng. Die.) ; Geschiechton, Zeisberger, verbal noun, "To wash," "The act of washing," as

by the "overflow of the water of a sea or river. * * The river

washed a valley in the plain"; with suffix -itnk {K' schiechton-unk --

compressed to Cushetunk), denoting a place where the action of the

verb was performed, i. e. a place where at times the land is washed

or overflowed by water, from which the traditionary interpretation,

"Low land." ^

The Indian town spoken of was established in 1744, although

its site was previously occupied by Indian hunting houses or huts