[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 began settling in the area during when they established a township of their own in the area in 1849. Mahwah had long been used informally as a local name at its present locale when Erie Railroad managers selected it as the name of the station opened in the hamlet in 1909 (Wardell 2009:58). Industries established at West Mahwah after 1900 expanded rapidly. The name Mahwah was ultimately chosen to replace Hohokus as the township name in 1944. Today, Mahwah is a mixed residentialindustrial center served by major rail lines located at a major junction of interstate and state highways. MASHIPACONG (Sussex County). Whritenour thinks that Mashipacong sounds like a Munsee word, *machiipeekwung, “place of bad water.” Today, Mashipacong is the name of an island, a pond, and the Old and New Mashipacong roads that connect both places in Montague Township. The name made its initial appearances in colonial records in entries spaced a week apart in John Reading, Jr.’s survey book. On June 24, 1719, Reading (1915:95) noted “a large piece of lowland called Machippacong.” One week later, on July 1 (Reading 1915:99), the surveyor discovered that what he had earlier thought was lowland was actually a large island on the New Duke donated the property to the Nature Conservancy in 1991 on condition that it reserve 200 acres for the multicultural Trail Blazer’s Camp at the site of the former Fresh Air facility. Today, the Nature Conservancy preserves the ecosystem supporting the unique northern boreal bog within its 1,000-acre Mashipacong Bog Preserve. Shippekonk survives as the name of a local area campground. MASONICUS (Bergen County). Whritenour thinks that Masonicus sounds like a Munsee cognate of a Northern Unami word, *mallsannukus (the l is not voiced in Munsee and may have been missed by a colonial chronicler), “little flint or chert arrowhead.” Today, Masonicus is a street and neighborhood name in the Bergen County Borough of Mahwah (see above) and the name of a five-mile-long brook that runs through Mahwah from the Masonicus neighborhood to its junction with the Mahwah River at West Mahwah. The name first appeared late in the colonial era as a place variously called Massanuckes and Messankes in local road returns made between 1754 and 1769 (Wardell 2009). It has been on area maps since that time. MATTANO (Union County). Mattano Park is a recreational facility in the City of Elizabeth. The Union County Park Commission began development of Mattano Park just below the Elizabeth River Parkway during the late 1930s. Commission officials named the facility to honor Mattano, the primary signatory of the October 24, 1664, Elizabethtown Purchase (New Jersey Archives, Liber 1:1). Mattano was a close relative of Irooseeke (see Iresick in New Jersey Central below), Ockanickon (see in New Jersey South below), and several other leaders of mixed Munsee- and Northern Unami-speaking communities located at various places across central New Jersey. The sachem participated in several other sales of lands around New York Harbor made between 1649 and 1665 as “the sachem of Nayack [Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn] and Staten Island.” MINDOWASKIN (Union County). Mindowaskin Park and Mindowaskin Pond are located in Westfield Township. Both places were built by township officials during the early 1900s to serve municipal recreational requirements. The name they chose is a slightly revised spelling of Mindowashen, one of the four Indians mentioned in the deed conveying land in the area to colonists on October 12, 1684 (New Jersey Archives, Liber A:262). This sachem was also documented under the name Mindawassa, a local sachem and war captain who served his people as a soldier, diplomat, and agent representing Indians selling land in northern New Jersey between 1657 and 1690. The 13-acre public park is presently maintained with the help of the Friends of Mindowaskin Park volunteer organization. MINISINK (Sussex County). Heckewelder (1834:359) thought that the Delaware word he spelled Menesink referred to “the habitation of the Minsi tribe of Delawares.” Whritenour thinks the name is a virtual dead ringer for a Munsee word, *munusung, “at the island, or place of islands.” Goddard (2010:278nn.3) states that the Munsee-language word mënë’sënk, “at or on the mënës,” is the origin of the name Munsee, më’ n’siiw (mwë’nssi, in Unami), “person of mënës.” He