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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 14 (part 2)
[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 THE HIGHLANDS] Shildrake, or Sheldrake, given as the name of Furnace Brook, takes that name from an extended forest known in local records as "The Furnace Woods." By exchange of _l_ and _n,_ it is probably from _Schind,_