[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Twastawekah and Tawastawekah, given, in the Livingston Patent, as the name of Claverack Creek, is described as a place that was below Shaukook, The root is _Tawa,_ an "open space," and the name apparently an equivalent of Lenape _Tawatawikunk,_ "At an open place," or an uninhabited place, a wilderness. _Tauwata-wique-ak,_ "A place in the wilderness." (Gerard.) Sahkaqua, "the south end of a small piece of land called Sahkaqua and Nakawaewick"; "to a run of water on ye east end of a certain flat or piece of land called in ye Indian tongue, Sahkahka; then south... one hundred and forty rods to... where two runs of water come together on the south side of the said flat; then west... to a rock or great stone on the south corner of another flat or piece of low land called by the Indians Nakaowasick." (Doc. Hist., iii, 697.) On the surveyor's map Nakaowasick, the place last named, is changed to Acawanuk. From the text, _Sahkaqua_ described "Land or place at the outlet or mouth of a