History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 22
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Sackwahung. — A locality at West Farms. An evident variant of Aquehung. Shorakapkock. — Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where it joins the Hudson, "as far as the sitting-down place," i.e., where there was a portage. Shingabawossins. — A locality in Pelham. Applied to erratic bowlders or rolling-stoms. It probably denotes " a place of flat stones." Shappequa. — Var., Chappaqua. "A separated place," i.e., " a place of separation." Men-tioned as a boundary in some conveyances. Sickham. — A locality in Cortlandt. A personal name. Shippam. — New Rochelle. A personal name, probably, although Eliot gives ns Keechepam, " shore." Sigghes. — A great bowlder, a landmark mentioned as a boundary. Another name for Meghkaekassin. From an original Siogke-ompsk-it, "at the hard rock." Sacunyte Napucke. — A locality in Pelham. Sakunk-Napi-ock, " at the outlet of a pond or water-place." Probably used in some conveyance to indicate the line running to this place, hence a boundary designation Saperwack. — A hook or bend in a stream at West Farms. " Land on a river," or " ex-tended land;" the name will bear both interpretations. Sepackena. — A creek at Tarrytown. Sachkerah.—A locality at West Farms. Saproughah. — A creek at "West Farms. Sepparak. — A locality in Cortlandt. The foregoing names are seemingly variations of the same word, denoting " extended <>r spread-out land." A search for early forms might change this opinion. Senasqua.