[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] the City of Newburgh. The Moodna’s main stem forms at the junction of Satterly Creek and Otter Creek. From there, Moodna Creek flows east past Salisbury Mills and beneath the Moodna Railroad Viaduct to its junction with the Hudson River at Cornwall-onHudson. The present-day 22-mile-long Murderkill River in the State of Delaware marks a similar tradition dating to colonial times. MOON HAW (Ulster County). Moon Haw Road and what local residents call the Moonhaw Hollow (Maltby Hollow on the few maps that name the locale), currently are names of places located in the hamlet of West Shokan (see below). Both the road and the hollow bear the name of an man identified as “Moonhaw alias Ancrop,” an evident descendant of the noted Esopus sachem Ankerop, listed among the Indians who relinquished their claims for land within the Hardenbergh Patent in the Catskills in a deed dated June 6, 1746 (Ulster County Records, Deed Book EE:63-65). MOPUS (Westchester County). The upper reaches of Mopus Brook (see in Connecticut) meander across the New York–Connecticut line before flowing into the Titicus River (see below). MUCHATTOES (Orange County). Constructed as a Newburgh The second was a patent issued in 1712 officially registering the 1709 purchase. Both documents mentioned a “hill called Much-Hattoos” that marked the western boundary of the purchased tract. The promontory, now called Snake Hill, is located in a section of undeveloped uplands southwest of present-day Muchattoes Lake. No longer used as a reservoir, Muchattoes Lake is now the focal point of a public housing project built at the locale during the 1970s. MUSCOOT (Putnam and Westchester counties). Whritenour thinks that Moscotah, the earliest recorded form of Muscoot, sounds like a Munsee word, *maskihteew, “may apple.” Moscotah was mentioned as the name of a stream in a May 5, 1703, Indian deed to land along the modern-day Muscoot River (Marshall et al. 19621978 4:404). The Muscoot River rises at Lake Mahopac (see above) in Putnam County. From there, it flows south into the Amawalk Reservoir (see above) and past Muscoot Park into the Muscoot Reservoir in Westchester County. Completed by the City of New York in 1905, the Muscoot Reservoir collects all waters flowing from upper Croton Valley waterways behind its dam. Muscoot Farm, located above the present-day high-water mark where the Muscoot River flows into the reservoir, was the summer estate and working dairy farm of the Hopkins family from 1880 to 1924. Westchester County acquired the 777-acre tract in 1967. Today, the County maintains the property as a historic farm celebrating the area’s agrarian heritage. MUSCOTA (New York County). Muscota New School P.S. 314 in adorned the road running between the upper reaches of the Bronx and Saw Mill rivers since 1778. Today, the road runs from the northern end of Kensico Reservoir (see above) to Thornwood. Rising near the eastern end of Nanny Hagen Road, Nannahagan Brook flows west in a gentle arc into Nannahagan Pond and Park before falling into the Saw Mill River at Thornwood. NANUET (Rockland County). Whritenour thinks that the name recorded as Nanawitt’s Meadow in the earliest known references to the modern-day Nanuet locale sounds like the Munsee personal names neenawiit, “he who recognizes me,” and neenawaat, “he who recognizes them.” Local tradition holds that the namesake of Nanawitt’s Meadow was an Indian signatory mentioned in the March 5, 1703, Wawayanda Patent deed (Budke 1975a:79-81). Today, Nanuet is the name of a hamlet in the Town of Clarkstown. New York and Erie Railroad officials originally gave the name Clarkstown to the station they built at the old location of Nanawitt’s Meadow when they ran their line through the area in commemorated in Mannayunk in New York (see above), Namanock in New Jersey (see in New Jersey North in Part 1 below), and other place names in the region. Nowenock played a major role in many Indian land sales in the highlands between the Pequonnock Valley (see in Connecticut) and the New York–New Jersey border between 1696 and 1726. NAPANOCH (Ulster County). Whritenour thinks that variant spellings of Napanoch recorded in 1696 and 1728 sound like a Munsee word, *niipeenaxk, “standing fence.” Napanoch is presently the name of a village located at the place where the waters of Rondout Creek join with Sandburg Creek at the base of the Shawangunk Ridge (see below) in the Town of Wawarsing (see below). The name first appeared in colonial records as Nepenaack in an Indian deed to land in the area dated June 8, 1696 (Ulster County Records, Deed Book CC:145). A group of native people from the area later identified themselves as Nappaner Indians at a Nicolls Treaty renewal meeting held between June 9 and June 10, 1719 (New York State Library, Executive Council Minutes 11:607-613). The name in the form of Nepenagh was subsequently noted in