[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] in the Minisink town community of Slate Hill are named for Joghem (Dutch for Joseph), the nickname used by one of the principal Indian signatories of the deed that conveyed much of the land in present-day Orange County to New York governor Thomas Dongan on September 10, 1684 (Budke 1975a:56-59). Joghem was an influential sachem also noted as Sherikam, Choukass, Sekomeek, and Shawaghkommin in deeds to lands in the lower Hudson River valley signed between 1663 and 1712. KAKIAT (Rockland County). Today, Kakiat County Park is located in the Town of Ramapo (see below). Most places bearing similarly spelled versions of this name in northern New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and Ulster and Westchester counties in New York, trace their etymologies to the Dutch word, kijkuit, “lookout.” Kakiat Park in Rockland, however, comes from Kakyachteweeke, an evidently Delaware Indian place name mentioned in the June 25, 1696, deed Connecticut). Today, Catoonah Street marks the building’s former location. The hamlet of Katonah formally appeared on northern Westchester County maps in 1897 when the low-lying community of Whitlocksville was relocated and given the new name at its higher elevation above the floodplain inundated by the waters impounded by the Cross River Reservoir. Local developers purchased land several miles east of the village and dammed the small pond on the property for a development they named Lake Katonah in 1926. Another entrepreneur gave the same name to his Katonah development just east of the place where the somewhat similar-sounding Croton Aqueduct enters the Bronx from Westchester. The name continues to grace the avenue that runs through the present-day Katonah section just to the north of Woodlawn Cemetery. Cantitoe Street in Bedford and Cantitoe Road in Yonkers today bear a place name that was initially noted during the early 1800s as a locality in the Town of Bedford called Cantacoc (Gordon 1836:766). The place was subsequently known as Cantitoe Corners, a crossroads located near the Jay family estate at the present-day junction of Cantitoe and Jay streets near another locality known as Katonah’s Woods. Robert Bolton (1881 1:3) was the first writer to suggest that Cantacoc was probably a folk dialect version of Katonah’s name. Local myth-makers affixed the name Cantitoe to a boulder in Katonah’s Woods thought to cover the sachem’s grave. Over time, this belief evolved into the current tradition holding that boulders at the locale mark the graves of Katonah, his wife Cantitoe, and their children. KENSICO (Westchester County). The Kensico Reservoir and Dam bear a recognizably respelled nineteenth-century resurrection of the name of a prominent seventeenth-century Indian culture-broker who put his mark next to a name spelled Cockinsecko on a deed to land dam. KATONAH (Bronx and Westchester counties). Today, Katonah is the name of a hamlet and a lake in the Town of Bedford in Westchester County. The name was later imported to grace a neighborhood in the North Bronx developed during the early twentieth century. Names in both places commemorate the Indian leader who signed most of the land deeds transferring Indian title to colonists in and around Bedford between 1680 and 1708. Residents in Bedford in- KERHONKSON (Ulster County). Today, Kerhonkson is the name formally gave the sachem’s name to local features ranging from Ka- of a creek, a reservoir, and a hamlet in the Town of Rochester. Ristonah’s Woods north of the town center to Katonah’s Meadow at its ing in the low hills lining the base of the Shawangunk Ridge (see Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 13 below) several miles behind the hamlet, Kerhonkson Creek flows into and through the community reservoir before falling into the Rondout Creek a few miles farther on. The name was first mentioned in the minutes of the October 7, 1665, Nicolls Treaty as Kahankson, a creek marking bounds of some of the land that Indians gave up to the colonists at the end of the Esopus War (O’Callaghan and Fernow 1853-1887 13:399-402). Fried (1975:73-77) thinks Esopus Indians may have built the fortified settlement, known today as the First or Old Esopus Fort, destroyed by Dutch troops during the late war in 1663 by the banks of the creek called Kahankson. The name next appeared in colonial records, this time as an upper branch of the Rondout Creek called Kahakasink, in the minutes of a Nicolls Treaty renewal meeting held on April 27, 1677 (Christoph, Christoph, and Gehring 1989-1991 2:57-59). A 60-acre tract noted as “Kahakasins, being the first land at said Kahankisins,” was subsequently identified in an April 18, 1683, Indian deed to land at present-day Kerhonkson (Ulster County Records, Kingston Town Records I:43-44). Delaware and Hudson Canal workers gave the name Middleport to the village they built at the locale after completing the towpath section run through the area in 1831. Fried (2005:42) shows that residents resurrected the place’s