Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 15 (part 2)
[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] Dr. Trumbull wrote in the Natick (Mass.) dialect, "_Kussitchuan, -uwan,_ impersonal verb, 'It flows in a rapid stream,' a current; it continues flowing; as a noun, 'a rapid stream.'" In Cree, _Kussehtanne,_ "Flowing as a stream" In Delaware, _-tanne_ has its equivalent in _-hanne._ "The impersonal verb termination _-awan, -uan,_ etc., is sometimes written with the participial and subjunctive _k_" (_ka_ or _gh._) (Gerard.) The _k_ or _gh_ appears in some forms of Kitchawan. (See Waronawanka.) Titicus, given as the name of a branch of the Croton flowing from Connecticut, is of record Mutighticos and Matightekonks, translated by Dr. Trumbull from _Mat'uhtugh-ohke,_ "Place without wood," from which extended to the stream. (See Mattituck and Sackonck.) Navish is claimed as the name of Teller's (now Croton) Point, on a reading of the Indian deed of 1683: "All that parcel, neck or point of land, with the meadow ground or valley adjoining, situate, lying and being on the east side of the river over against Verdrietig's Hooke, commonly called and known by the name of Slauper's Haven and by the Indians Navish, the meadow being called by the Indians Senasqua." Clearly, Navish refers to Verdrietig Hook, on the west side of the river, where it is of record.