[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] with the last part of the name of fashionable Saratoga to the 75-acre Manitoga estate he built in Garrison in 1941. Manitoga presently houses the Russel Wright Design Center next door to the 137-acre Manitou Point Nature Preserve. MANNAYUNK (Orange County). Five-mile-long Mannayunk Kill flows into the west bank of the Wallkill River just west of the present-day Village of Montgomery. Surveyor Peter E. Gumaer, who noted the stream as Mononcks Kill in a survey entry made on May 4, 1809, identified the creek as Menonks Kill in another note penned six days later (Ogden 1983:43, 45). An Ulster County trader had earlier listed a local Indian leader identified as Manonck among his most active clients in ledger entries made between 1717 and 1725 (Waterman and J. Smith 2011:5, 6, 62). References to Manonck’s burial and final account balances in ledger entries made in 1726 were written around the same time that the prominent regional sachem Nowenock last appeared in colonial documents. The simultaneous occurrence of these events suggests that the similarly spelled names of Manonck and Nowenock may have belonged to the same person. Whatever Manonck’s identity, an elderly settler at Minisink named Jacob Westfall deposed on January 21, 1777 (New York State Library, Indorsed Land Papers 28:71), remembered Menonck as one of several Indians he knew in his youth at and around Kishiston (see Cochecton above). Mannayunk Kill’s current spelling reflects associations made by later residents who, no longer remembering Manonck, adopted a local variant spelling of the familiar place name Manayunk (see below in Pennsylvania South in Part 1), the name of the well-known Philadelphia neighborhood that bears the Delaware Indian name for the Schuylkill River that Heckewelder (1834:355) translated as “drinking place.” the area. Beauchamp (1907:55) noted that the place formerly called Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet Mansakin was then known as Jackomyntie’s Fly (Jemima’s Swamp). A few years earlier, the builder of a Dutchess County estate, who resurrected the name from local records, decorously altered it to Mansakenning to identify his new farm just south of Rhinebeck around 1903. The well-preserved Mansakenning Farm retains the name to the present day. MANURSING (Westchester County). Whritenour thinks that Manursing sounds much like a Munsee word, *munusung, “at the island.” The place name Manussing first appeared in a June 29, 1660, colonial purchase of an island located just across from Peningo (see below) on the mainland in the present-day City of Rye, (in Robert Bolton 1881 2:130). The island’s Indian name remained on area maps well into the twentieth century. Landfill dumped to provide secure foundations for Rye Playland, built on Manursing Island in 1928, all but obliterated traces of the original shoreline that made the place an island. Today, the name Manursing endures as the name of roads in Playland and other locales within the city limits of Rye, a freestanding municipality that broke away from the Town of Rye in 1942. MASPETH (Queens County). Maspeth is a Munsee word sometimes translated as “bad water.” Today, Maspeth is the name of a neighborhood and a stream at the head of Newtown Creek in the Borough of Queens. Dutch West India Company officials purchased land bordered on the north by what was called “the thicket of Mespaetches,” when they bought all of present-day Williamsburg from its Indian owners on August 1, 1638 (Gehring 1980:8-9). The name of Maspeth has continuously been on local maps in one form or another since colonial times as the name of the small community at the head of Maspeth Creek (Riker 1852). Use of the name to identify the entire course of modern-day Newtown Creek had shrunk to a small stream next to the “west branch of Marshpath kills called Quandus Quaricus” (Palstits 1910 1:235-237). This name of present-day English Kills strongly resembles the Delaware Indian word Indian town called Matsepe within marching distance of Hempstead (Anonymous 1909:282) destroyed in 1644 by colonists (see Fort Neck above) are more likely referring to Massapequa (see below). MASSAPEQUA (Nassau County). Nora Thompson Dean (in Kraft and Kraft 1985:45) thought that Massapequa sounded much like a Southern Unami word, mësipèk, “water from here and there.” Today, Massapequa is the name of a creek, a lake, and a cluster of municipalities at the southeastern corner of the Town of Oyster Bay. Massapequa has been on maps since Mechoswodt, the sachem of Marossepinck, signed the January 15, 1639, treaty deed that granted the Dutch West India Company the sole right to purchase Indian land in western Long Island (Gehring 1980:9). Massapequa, whose remote backwater location close by the Indian community at Fort 17 Neck (see above), did not initially attract colonists. These factors did not, however, stop colonist from purchasing the Massapeaque Meadows as pastureland from Mechoswodt’s successor, Tackapausha, on March 17, 1658 (Cox 1916-1940 1:347-349). Montaukett sachem