[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] time the Chappequa Mineral Spring resort was noted in Gordon’s (1836:768) gazetteer. Etymologically similar Eastern Algonquian place names include Chappaquiddick and Chappaquoit in Massachusetts. CHEECHUNK (Orange County). Whritenour suggests that Cheechunk may be derived from a Munsee word, *chiichangw, “mirror.” Cheechunk Creek in the Town of Goshen is a tributary of the Wallkill River that was canalized to drain the Drowned Lands, today known as the Black Dirt District, during the early nineteenth century. The name also adorns the two-mile-long Cheechunk Road that crosses the creek on its way from the City of Goshen to the river. John Reading, Jr. (1915:109) first mentioned the name in a journal entry dated July 27, 1719 recounting his visit to “Chechong. . . an Indian plantation in good fence, and well improved, rais[ing] wheat and horses” on what he called the “Wallakill River” three miles from the settlement of Goshen. Three years later, Esopus sachems (see below) attending a Nicolls Treaty renewal meeting at Kingston on August 18, 1722, complained that colonists were squatting on land “nigh by Chechunck in the Palls Creek” (an old name for the modern-day Wallkill River identifying the stream with the present-day Village of New Paltz on its banks) they said had not been included in the 1684 sale of land in the area (Special Collections, Alexander Library, Rutgers University: Philhower Collection). Gazetteers and other sources began noting the existence of a creek, a hamlet, and a mineral spring resort bearing the name Cheechunk during the early nineteenth century. CATSKILL (Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster counties). Etymologies for Catskill first recorded during the early seventeenth century vary from cataract and lacrosse (from the Dutch kat, “tennis racket”) to kasteel (Dutch for “castle”) creek. The name, however, almost certainly is Dutch for “cat creek,” perhaps in reference to a mountain lion or a bobcat. Dutch and early English settlers frequently referred to native people living along and around Catskill Creek as Catskill Indians. The creek’s name was subsequently given to the mountains that tower above all but the stream’s lowest reaches where it flows through the Town of Catskill into the Hudson River at the village of the same name. A mostly Mahican-speaking community, the Catskills, like the Taconics (see below) on the other side CHEESECOTE (Rockland County). Whritenour thinks that of the river, also numbered several Munsee-speaking Esopus and Cheesekokes, an early spelling of the present-day place name Wappingers (see both below) among those living in their towns. Cheesecote, sounds like the Munsee word chiishkohkoosh, “the robin.” Today, Cheesecote Mountain Town Park and nearby CAUMSETT (Suffolk County). Caumsett State Historic Park Pre- Cheesecote Pond are the only surviving reminders of the place name serve is located at Lloyds Neck in the Town of Huntington. The on modern-day maps first mentioned as the name of a creek flowing 1,600-acre preserve is managed by the State of New York in coop- into the Hackensack River identified as Kesewakey and Kessayeration with a consortium of local preservation groups. Caumsett waky in an Indian deed dated June 8, 1677. The name subsequently Preserve consists of land originally purchased by publisher Marshall appeared in a form more closely resembling its current spelling as Field III for a country estate in 1921. Consulting local records, Field “a certain tract of land and meadow. . . called Cheescocks,” on deeds discovered that the deed signed by the Indians who sold Lloyds in the area signed on December 30, 1702, and June 12, 1704 (Budke Neck on September 20, 1654, identified the place as Caumsett (in 1975a:44-46, 87-88, 92-93). The land purchased through the two comes from a different Mahican word variously spelled Achkookpeek, Ukhkokpeck, and Kookpake by colonists (Ruttenber COBAMONG (Westchester County). A small lake in the Town of in Bright 2004:121). Bedford has been known as Cobamong Pond since the mid-nineteenth-century (French 1860:703). The name appears twice in local CORLEAR (New York County). Present-day Corlear’s Hook Park colonial records, first as the “land and meadow of Cohamong” in a is located on a stretch of landfill along the banks of the East River May 2, 1683, Indian deed, and again under the same spelling in a on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The area was the location of deed dated September 6, 1700 (Marshall et al. 1962-1978 2:132, Nechtank, an overnight camp catering to Indians visiting nearby 161). New Amsterdam that was operated by a local sachem named Numerus. It became one of two places where lower Hudson River InCOCHECTON (Sullivan County). Heckewelder (1834:362) dians (the other was Pavonia, today’s Jersey City), taking refuge thought that Cochecton sounded much like gischiéchton, Delaware under promised Dutch protection from a Mohawk or Mahican raid, for “finished, completed.” Today, Cochecton is the name of several were treacherously murdered by soldiers and armed settlers ordered municipalities clustered around a