History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 21
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Nipnichsen. Indian village and castle near Spuyten Duyvil. The name denotes "a small pond or water-place." Onox. Eldest son of Ponus. Onux (wonnux) "the stranger." Ponus. — A chief; he places (something). Patthunck. — A personal name; "pounding-mortar." Pachamitt.— (Van der Donck's map. ) Name of a tribe taken from the place where they lived, "at the turning-aside place." De Laet says : " Visher's Rack, that is the fisherman's bend," and here the eastern bank is inhabited by the Pachami, a little beyond where projects a sandy point." Pachanu, a sachem, takes his name also from tribe and place. Paunskapham.—A locality in Cortlandt. Probably this on exhaustive search will be found a personal name. Pasquasheck.—(Vsm der Donck.) Pasquiasheck, Pashquashic (Pasquesh-auke). "Land at the bursting forth," i. e., "at the outlet of a stream;" an Indian village at the mouth of a stream.. Papirinemen.— Spuyten Duyvil Creek; also place at north end of Manhattan Island. Inis name has a verbal termination denoting the act of doing something, a suffix not allowable m place names. Hence it was probably a personal name denoting « to parcel out," to divide, to divert, variation, Pewinenien. _. Pechquinakonck.— (Van der Donck.) A locality in North Salem; probably originally an