[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] and the Mohonk Preserve (see above). SHEKOMEKO (Columbia and Dutchess counties). Shekomeko is a Mahican name for a mixed community that included many Munsee-speaking people located on Shekomeko Creek, a ten-mile-long tributary of the Roeliff (sometimes spelled Roeloff) Jansen Kill. A Moravian Indian mission stood on Shekomeko Creek’s banks in the present-day hamlet of Bethel from1740 to 1746. Many of the Indians who moved to the Shekomeko mission traced descent to Esopus and Wappinger forebears (see above). Most joined the Moravian missionaries, who had been living two miles away in Pine Plains (see above), in new homes in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania after Dutchess County authorities expelled the missionaries as suspected French spies in 1746 during the third French and Indian War. The few that returned to the area after the war mostly associated themselves with, and shared the fate of, the Indians who affiliated themselves with the Moravian and Presbyterian missions in the Housatonic River valley (Dally-Starna and Starna 2009; Frazier 1992). SHENOROCK (Westchester County). The hamlet of Shenorock is currently located on the banks of Lake Shenorock at the north end of the Amawalk Reservoir (see above). Developers established the Lake Shenorock Corporation in 1930. Company managers took the name from the pages of Robert Bolton’s history (1881 2:150-152), which noted a sachem identified as Shenorock in three Indian deeds to land in the area signed between November 8, 1661, and January 12, 1662. Shenorock, also documented as Shanorocket and Shanorockwell, was Sauwenaroque, a prominent local Indian leader who took part in land sales in and around today’s Westchester County between 1636 and 1666. A similar -rocket suffix added to another anglicized spelling of a Delaware personal name, this one of a leader variously identified as Sukkurrus and Wassakarois, occurs in the form of Sockorockets Ditch (see below in the state of Delaware). SHOKAN (Ulster County). Shokan is a truncated form of Ashokan (see above), a name that Whritenour thinks sounds like a Munsee word, aashookaan, “people are walking in the water.” Today, Shokan and West Shokan are hamlets on opposite sides of the Ashokan Reservoir. Both communities were among those along the banks of the Esopus Creek (see above) forced to relocate to higher ground during construction of the reservoir between 1907 and 1917. The Continental Congressional authorization for erection of a fort at Shoheken in 1779 represents the earliest known appearance of a name that has since been adapted and adopted in different locales in the region as Ashokan, Shandaken (see above), and extending from Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Saw Mill River between the Bronx and Hudson rivers. The name was initially 29 recorded as “ye Kill Soroquapp” (present-day Spuyten Duyvil Creek) in the September 11, 1666, Indian deed conveying the patented land to descendants of Adriaen van der Donck, who originally purchased the land in 1646 (Paltstits 1910(1):234-235). Kappock Street, on the north bank of Spuyten Duyvil Creek in Bronx County, preserves a fragment of this name. SING SING (Westchester County). This variant of the place name Ossining (see above) first appeared in the writings of Dutch chroniclers penned between 1643 and 1663 noting the existence of an Indian nation identified as Sintsincks on the east bank of the Hudson at and around the present-day Town of Ossining. The small stream that flows from the town through the village center and into the Hudson River has long been known as Sing Sing Brook. In 1813, the Sing Sing community became the first hamlet to formally incorporate itself as a village in Westchester. Built in 1826, Sing Sing prison (given its current name, Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1985), brought notoriety to the name and the expression “up the river.” In 1901, residents of the Village of Sing Sing decided to become part of the Town of Ossining. See references to Sing Sing in Part 2 for the name’s occurrence in one of the places where Delawares lived in exile in New York, and others in Part 3 where the name occurs elsewhere in places not associated with Delaware people or their nation. SIWANOY (Bronx and Westchester counties). Siwanoy is an Eastern Algonquian Indian place name variously translated as “southerner” or regarded as a variant spelling of sewan, a word that Delawares and their neighbors used for wampum. The name first appeared as Sywanois fixed onto a location in present-day southeastern Massachusetts noted in Adriaen Block’s 1614 map (Stokes 1915-1928 1: Color Plate 1). Slightly rewording the name in the 1625 edition of his book, Johan de Laet (in Jameson 1909:44) wrote that Indian people calling themselves Siwanois lived along the north shore of Long Island Sound “for eight leagues, to the neighborhood of Hellegat” (modern Hellgate across from Manhattan on the East River). Ruttenber (1872:81-82) followed De Laet when he proposed the existence