[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] (see in Connecticut). PEPACTON (Delaware County). Whritenour thinks that Papakonk, the earliest recorded form of Pepacton, sounds like a Munsee word, *peepakang, “sweet flag (grass).” Today, Pepacton Reservoir and Dam are located along the East Branch (often called the Pepacton Branch) of the Delaware River. Also known as the Downsville Reservoir and Dam, the 15-mile-long Pepacton impoundment is the largest in the New York City Water System. Pepacton water destined for the city is drawn by gravity into the 26mile-long East Delaware Aqueduct Tunnel near the former site of the now-submerged Pepacton community. Flowing first into the Neversink (see above) and then into to the Rondout reservoirs, this water then travels southward into the 85-mile-long Delaware Aqueduct to its Kensico Reservoir holding pond (see above) in Westchester County. Water from Kensico flows south into a tunnel that crosses into New York City at the Bronx County line. After the Revolutionary War, the locale became the logging and tanning settlement of Pepacton and the site of the Pepacton post office opened sometime between 1850 and 1855. In 1942, Pepacton found itself one of the four villages located within the proposed reservoir impoundment area. Bought out by city agents, residents mostly scattered to places on higher ground less likely to be threatened by future flooding. Water from the completed reservoir complex began flowing to New York City in 1955. Today, the Pepacton Reservoir supplies about one-quarter of the city’s drinking water. woman (see above) who had risen to the rank of sachem, followed them to the mission towns around Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Soon resettled by local farmers, Pine Plains became the rural agricultural and residential community it remains today. POCANTICO (Westchester County). Today, Pocantico is the name of a six-mile-long river and a number of places located at various points along its banks. The name first appeared as Pocanteco Creek in an Indian land purchase license issued on December 1, 1680 (O’Callaghan and Fernow 1853-1887 13:546). It was subsequently noted as Pekcantico and Pueghanduck in the Indian deed secured on December 10, 1681 (in Robert Bolton 1881 1:268-269). The stream was noted as “a creek or river called by the Indians, Pocanteco or Wackandeco” in the royal charter establishing the Philipsburgh Manor on June 12, 1693 (in R. Bolton 1881 2:591). Writer Washington Irving (Crayon 1839:319) made Pocantico famous as the place he called Sleepy Hollow featured in his popular Knickerbocker histories. The actual locale, noted in an Indian deed dated June 23, 1682, to land across from present-day Pocantico on the west bank of the Hudson called Slaupers Haven (Westchester County Records, Deed Book A:181-184), was a quiet backwater located at the lee of Stony Point where ships could safely pass the night. The place was located near what Indians called Navish (see Nyack above) also identified in the Nyack entry by its Dutch name, Verdrida Hook, “tedious or troublesome to navigation.” The Pocantico River rises at Echo Lake and flows south into the Town of Ossining (see above), where it falls into Pocantico Lake, a now-decommissioned reservoir constructed in 1916. Running past the presently undeveloped 164-acre Pocantico Lake County Park, the river winds its way through gaps in the Pocantico Hills. From there, it flows through a scenic stretch currently known as Sleepy Hollow located in the 1,000-acre Rockefeller Park Preserve donated by the family to the State of New York in 1983. The stream then flows past the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and through the Sleepy Hollow neighborhood in North Tarrytown, where its waters finally join with those of the Hudson River at the Tappan Zee (see below). word for “point or hook” with the pidgin Delaware word haki, “land.” The name first appeared in a February 22, 1667 reference to “the Ponckhachking path” west of present-day Kingston (Christoph, Scott, and Stryker-Rodda 1976 2:636-637). PINE PLAINS (Dutchess County). The hamlet of Pine Plains was founded in 1740 as the place of residence occupied by Moravian missionaries working at the nearby Shekomeko Indian mission (see below) dedicated to securing the conversions of Munsee and Mahican Indian people. Provincial authorities mistrusted the Moravians and their Indian converts from the outset. Living well within range of raiding parties launched from Quebec, colonists in the area feared attack when war with France and her Indian allies again broke out in 1744. Local authorities, claiming that Moravians might be French spies, saw to it that the missionaries were deported in 1746. Many POTAKE (Rockland County). Whritenour thinks that Pothat, an of their Indian converts, whose numbers included Schebosch, a de- early orthography of Potake preserved as a street name in the Vilscendant of Mamanuchqua, a Munsee Delaware-speaking Esopus lage of Sloatsburg, sounds somewhat like a Munsee word, pahthaat, Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 25 perhaps a personal name meaning “he who hits someone by accident.” The