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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 22 (part 2)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] — Croton Point on Hudson, Wanasque, " a point or ending." This name, as well as Ranachque, has lost its suffix. On Long Island it occurs in Wanasquattan, " a point of hills," Wanasquetuck, " the ending creek." Sint Sinck. — Sing Sing. Ossin-sing, "stone upon stones," belongs to the Chippeway dia-lect and was suggested by Schoolcraft (see Proc. X. Y. Hist. Soc, 18-14, p. 101). He is also responsible for a number of other interpretations frequently quoted. The Delaware form, Asin-es-ing, " a stony place," is much better. The same name occurs on Long Island in Queens County. But on the Delaware Paver is a place called Maetsingsing (see Col. Hist. N. Y., Vol. 1, pp. 590, 596), which seems to be a fuller form of our name and warrant-ing another interpretation : " Place where stones are gathered together," a heap of stones, probably. Snakapins.— Cornell's Neck. If not a personal name, as I suspect, it may represent an earlier Sagajnn, "a ground-nut." Suckehonk.—" A black (or dark colored) place," a marsh or meadow. The Hartford meadows, Connecticut, were called Suck'iang. Soakatuck. — A locality in Pelham. " The mouth of a stream." The same as Saugatuck in Connecticut. Suwanoes.— A tribe located from Norwalk, Conn., to Hellgate. They were the Shawon-anoes, " the Southerners," to tribes farther north. Tammoes is. —Creek near Yerplanck's Point. Delaware, Tummeu-esis, "little wolf," a per-sonal name. Tanracken.— A locality in Cortlandt.