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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 18

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[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_ and a meadow _Misosehasakey,_ interpreted by Dr. Trumbull, "Great fresh meadow," or low wet lands. _Haseco_ has no meaning; it is now assigned to Port Chester (Saw-Pits), and _Misosehasakey_ to Horse Neck. Armonck has lost some of its letters. What is left of it indicates _Amaug,_ "fishing place." (Trumbull's Indian Names.) Eauketaupucason, the name written as that of the feature in the village of Rye known by the unpleasant English title of "Hog-pen Ridge," is, writes Mr. William R. Gerard, "Probably an equivalent of Lenape _Ogid-ápuchk-essen,_ meaning, 'There is rock upon rock,' or one rock on another rock." Topography not ascertained. Manussing--in will of Joseph Sherwood, _Menassink_--an island so called in the jurisdiction of Rye, may be an equivalent of _Min-assin-ink,_ "At a place of small stones," _Minneweis,_ now City Island, is in the same jurisdiction. Mamaroneck, now so written as the name of a town in Westchester County, is of record, in 1644, Mamarrack and Mamarranack; later, Mammaranock, Mamorinack, Mammarinickes (1662), primarily as that of a "Neck or parcel of land," but claimed to be from the name of an early sachem of the Kitchtawanks whose territory was called Kitchtawanuck. [FN] Wm. R.