[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] of Amenia. From there, the stream flows south to WAPPINGER (Dutchess County). Whritenour thinks that Wap- its junction with Webatuck Creek (see below) to form the Tenmile 32 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet River a mile or so above Dover Plains. The name first appeared as Wesaick Brook in the February 1704, survey of land located in what was called the Oblong Tract between Connecticut and New York conveyed by the Indians in a deed dated November 5, 1703 (O’Callaghan 1864:74-75). Colonists often interchangeably used the as the Wassaic Creek and the 488-acre Wassaic Multiple Use Area located on the Tenmile River just below Wassaic Creek’s confluence with Webatuck Creek. WAUGHKONK (Ulster County). Waughkonk Road in the Town of Kingston marks the memory of the name of a place first noted as Anguagekonk in a March 12, 1702, petition to purchase 300 acres of land on the nearby Saw Kill (New York State Library, Indorsed Land Papers 3:40). Esopus leaders attending a Nicolls Treaty renewal meeting 20 years later in August 18, 1722 (Special Collections, Alexander Library, Rutgers University: Philhower Collection), complained that they had not been paid for land at a place they identified as Ashewagkomek near Mammekotten (see Mamakating above) and Nepanagh (see Napanoch above). A place identified as Waghkonk in the same document may either refer to a distinct locale or represent a variant spelling of Ashewaghkomeck. Colonists subsequently used various spellings of Waghkonk when referring to the present-day hamlet of Zena located in the Saw Kill Valley at the southeastern corner of the Town of Woodstock. WAWARSING (Sullivan County). Whritenour thinks that Wawarsing sounds similar to a Munsee word, *wahwalusung, “place of little eggs.” The name first appeared in a January 3, 1672, report as Waewaersinck, the destination of four otherwise unidentified Southern Indians encountered by local colonists (in Fried 2005:13-14). It stayed on local maps as the name of the colonial community established at the place’s current locale and was given to the present-day Town of Wawarsing established in 1806. The hamlet of Wawarsing grew large enough to support a post office by 1817 (Kaiser 1965). The place subsequently became a depot situated along the route of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and Railroad during the nineteenth century that developed into a resort community during the early 1900s. Today, Wawarsing is a residential community connected to nearby Kerhonkson (see above) and Ellenville by U.S. Route 209. WAWAYANDA (Orange County). Whritenour thinks that Wawayanda sounds like a Munsee word, *wehwalhandi, “the ditch.” Some local folk etymologists suggest that the name is a transcribed version of the expression “way, way, yonder.” Today, a mountain, two lakes (Wawayanda and New Wawayanda), a creek that flows across the state line between New York and New Jersey, and a state park in New Jersey most notably bear the name. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet Wawayanda was first mentioned as a place in a land conveyance dated March 5, 1703 (Budke 1975a:79-81). The name shortly reappeared as “a creek called Wawajando,” in another deed (1915:109) noted the place as the “Waweonda Drowned Lands.” The seven-mile-long main stem of Wawayanda Creek today rises near Warwick. From there, it flows west to the place where it is joined by a creek flowing from Lake Wawayanda in the 34,350-acre Wawayanda State Park managed by the State of New Jersey. Below this junction, Wawayanda Creek flows from New York into New Jersey. WEBATUCK (Dutchess County). Whritenour thinks that Webatuck sounds like a Munsee word, *wiipihtukw, “arrow tree” or “arrow river.” He further notes that the earliest spelling of the name, Weputing, resembles *wiipahtung, “arrow mountain.” Ten-milelong Webatuck Creek rises in Connecticut before flowing across the state line into New York just east of Millerton. The stream then follows a winding course along the state line until it falls into the Tenmile River at its junction with Wassaic Creek (see above) just below South Amenia. The name first appeared as the mountain identified as Weputing overlooking present-day Wassaic Creek mentioned in the February, 1704, survey of land sold by the Indians on November 5, 1703, in the Oblong tract between Connecticut and New York (O’Callaghan 1864:74-75). The spelling of name changed from Weputing to Webatuck as it traveled downhill from the mountain to the Today, places named Wiccopee occur in two adjacent locales astride as the preferred spelling of the name in the area to the present day. a stretch of the Hudson Highlands to the east of the Hudson River. The upper group centers around Wiccopee Creek, a northward-run- WYKAGYL (Westchester County). The name of the Wykagyl ning stream that flows from its headwaters just above Canopus Lake Country Club preserves a place name first documented on early (see above) through a gap called Wiccopee Pass to the hamlet of maps long thought to be