[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 another Indian deed, this one conveying land containing a lead mine on the slopes of the Shawangunk Mountain, signed on June 15, 1728 (Ulster County Records, Deed Book DD:6-7). Other spellings of the name Napanoch were later given to a mill built alongside Rondout Creek in 1754 and to the fort erected to the west of the canal. The Eastern States Correctional Facility 21 opened at the old canal port location at Napanoch in 1900. built in the area during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Local residents still refer to the land along the lower course of the NARRASKETUCK (Nassau and Suffolk counties). Whritenour Saw Mill River as the Nepperhan Valley. thinks that Warrasketuck, the earliest known spelling of Narrasketuck, sounds like a Munsee word, *wulaskihtukw, “river of good NEVERSINK (Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster counties). Today, Nevpasturage.” Today, Narrasketuck Creek runs along the southern bor- ersink is the name of a river, a reservoir, a town, and a village in der of Nassau and Suffolk counties. The name was first noted as a New York. The name Neversink has often been confused with simcreek called Warrasketuck located at the eastern end of the Massa- ilar-sounding (and sometimes identically spelled) Navesink in Monpeague Meadows (see Massapequa above) in an Indian deed dated mouth County (see below in New Jersey South in Part 1). Confusion March 17, 1658 (Cox 1916-1940 1:347-349). Twenty years later, was not lessened by the habit that New Jersey settlers had of the stream was identified as Narrasketuck in the patent Governor spelling their community’s name in ways both similar and identical Andros granted to the town for land in the area on September 29, to Neversink in New York at various times (most frequently during 1677. The name has been on local maps ever since. the 1680s). The occurrence of identically spelled names in both states has helped fuel traditions asserting that a highway called the NAURAUSHAUN (Rockland County). Whritenour thinks this Old Mine Road running from the Delaware Water Gap in New Jername’s earliest form, Narranshaw, sounds like a Munsee word, sey to Kingston, New York had long been in existence before *naalanuchuwal, “five hills.” Nauraushaun Brook and the hamlet colonists began settling the area in earnest during the early 1700s. of Nauraushaun are located in the Town of Orangetown. Rising in Nearly all of the earliest occurrences of Neversink in New the hills just to the north of Nanuet (see above), the six-mile-long York cluster around the Catskill Mountain village first called Nevbrook flows past the Nauraushaun locale into the upper end of Lake ersink Flats established shortly after the end of the Revolutionary Tappan (see below). A place identified as the “land called Narran- War. Before then, most colonists knew the Neversink River that shaw” was first mentioned in the Kakiat Patent Indian deed (see drains a sizable swathe of the plateau below the southeastern section above) signed on June 25, 1696 (Goshen Public Library, Kakiac of the Catskill Mountains as the Maheckkamack or MaghaghkaPatent Papers). Appearing in a June 1, 1702, Indian deed as the Nar- mack Branch (see above) of the Delaware River (Reading 1915:95rachong tract (Budke 1975a:84-86), the name was subsequently 106). The community known as Maghaghkamack at the mouth of noted as a stream identified as Narashunk in a May 9, 1710, Indian the river settled by Dutch colonists during the first decades of the deed (New Jersey Archives, Liber I:317-319), and as Narranshaw eighteenth century is now the City of Port Jervis. Creek in the 1713 survey of the 1710 sale (Green 1886:34). The Farther upriver, ponds built at the heads of several modern-day hamlet of Nauraushaun, located within the tract sold stretches of rapids at and around the flats at Neversink provided by the Indians in 1702 and 1710, was variously called Sickeltown water that powered mills that quickly turned the area into a major and Van Houten’s Mills at different times during the nineteenth cen- logging and tanning center. The Town of Neversink was established tury (Wardell 2009:64). in the area in 1798, and post offices were opened, first at Neversink 1705, Indian deed (in C. Street 1887-1889 1:291-294). Lindenhurst the Neversink Reservoir along a