[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] description reads: "A certain parcel of land called Pauwels Hoek, situated westward of the Island Manhates and eastward of Ahasimus, extending from the North River into the valley which runs around it there." (Col. Hist. N, Y., xiii, 3.) The Indian name, _Arisheck_ or _Aresseck,_ is so badly corrupted that the original cannot be satisfactorily detected, but, by exchanging _n_ for _r,_ and adding the initial _K,_ we would have _Kaniskeck,_ "A long grassy marsh or meadow." Hoboken, now so written--_Hobocan-Hacking,_ July, 1630; _Hobokan-Hacking,_ Nov. 1630; _Hobokina,_ 1635; _Hobocken,_ 1643; _Hoboken,_ 1647; _Hobuck_ and _Harboken,_ 1655-6--appears of record first in the Indian deed to Michael Pauw, July 12, 1630, negotiated by the Director-general and Council of New Netherland, and therein by them stated, "By us called Hobocan-Hacking." Primarily it was applied to the low promontory [FN-1] below Castle Point, [FN-2] bounded, recites the deed, on the south by the "land Ahasimus and Aressick." On ancient charts Aressick and Hoboken-Hacking are represented as two long necks of land or points separated by a cove on the river front now filled in, both points being called hooks. In records it was called an island, and later as "A neck of land almost an island, called Hobuk,...