[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] John Reading, Jr. (1915:93) was so leader of the Crosswicks Indian community, and King Tisheimpressed by the height of the present-day Kittatiny Ridge at the wakamin, better known as Tishcohan, a leader of Indians living at Delaware Water Gap that he launched into a flurry of adjectives that the Forks of Delaware), who signed the document as descendants Hills towering above the eastern banks of the Delaware River between the Delaware Water Gap and the New York line. The name MACOPIN (Passaic County). Heckewelder (1834:375) thought remains popular in the area, adorning everything from the ridge to that the name of the place he identified as Makiapier Pond came state parks, lakes, camps, and canoe liveries. from a Delaware Indian word, machkiabi, “water of a reddish color.” Although the color of the water in the pond, now called Echo LAMINGTON (Hunterdon, Morris, and Somerset counties). Lam- Lake, is decidedly blue, it is also true that loggers long ago cut down ington is an anglicized spelling of name of “the place called Allam- any cedar trees whose trunks might have given its waters a reddish otunk which is where the said river has a considerable fall betwixt tint. While Whritenour finds Heckewelder’s etymology credible, he two hills” mentioned in an October 13, 1709, Indian deed to land at thinks that Macopin sounds much more like a Munsee word, the present-day Falls of the Lamington River in Pottersville (New *mahkwupiing, “at the water of bears,” perhaps in reference to the Jersey Archives, Liber B-2:274-275). Whritenour thinks Allamo- kind of place where bears bathe, hunt, fish, or drink. Macopin today tunk resembles a Munsee word, *alaamahtung, “underneath or bot- is the name of a river, a reservoir, and the hamlets of Macopin and tom of the mountain.” Located in the place identified as Upper Macopin in northern New Jersey. Places identified as MaPomoconack in the 1696 Thornton map, Lamington’s progression copin and Makpi Pond were first mentioned in survey papers dated to its present form was already well on its way from Allamotunk 1753; the latter locale was subsequently referred to as a “pond called when local scribes spelled the name as the “Lomeconck Branch of Mekepien at a place called the Pleasant Ridge” on May 14, 1757 Rariton R.” in a will written in January 1719 (State of New Jersey (New Jersey Archives, East Jersey Proprietary Survey Book S1880-1949 23:175). The name subsequently appeared as Lamoer- 4:110), and as Makabien Pond on a 1767 map of Bergen County tonk in 1751 and as Lamenton in 1765 (Backes 1919:250). Today, (Wardell 2009). Lamington is the name of the river, its falls at the community of The Macopin River flows into the pond given the new Pottersville, as well as the hamlet of Lamington and Lamington name of Echo Lake sometime during the late nineteenth century. Road farther downriver below the falls. Residents of the present-day communities of Macopin and Upper The 19-mile-long Lamington River is a tributary of the Macopin probably adopted the name to mark their proximity to the North Branch of the Raritan River. Its 12-mile-long upper section nearby river. The stream’s original name may have belonged to a located in Morris County is also known as the Black River. Rising local sachem variously noted as Machopoickan and Mackpoekat in near Succasunna (see below), the stream flows south through several Indian deeds to tracts of land located between the Rockaway marshlands and woodlands into a succession of steep narrow gorges River (see below) and the uppermost reaches of the North Branch mostly in Hacklebarney State Park (see in New Jersey in Part 3). of the Raritan signed between 1701 and 1702. South of the park, the stream’s waters tumble over a series of cascades variously known as Lamington, Potters, and Pottersville Falls. MAHWAH (Bergen County). Whritenour thinks that Mahwah The location of these falls at the place where the borders of Hun- comes from a Munsee word *maaweewii, “assembly.” Today, Mahterdon, Morris, and Somerset counties converge is a reminder of the wah is the name of several places along the border between New 44 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet Jersey and New York. The nine-mile-long Mahwah River flows from its headwaters in Haverstraw (see in New York above) into the Ramapo River (see below) at the hamlet of Mahwah in just south of the state line. The earliest known reference to an “Indian field called Maweway” appeared in the first Indian deed to land in the area signed on November 18, 1709 (New Jersey Archives, Liber I:319-321). Copies of the survey return for the deed completed six months later used variations on the spellings Mawaywaye and Maygahtgayako to identify the Indian field at the flats by the mouth of the Mahwah River (New Jersey Archives, Liber I:317-319, 321322). Palatine German refugees