[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Peenpack above Port Jervis (see in New York above) looked like a Dutch word, paanpach, “low, soft land or leased land.” Recent conferral of the name Paunpeck onto tiny Meadowlands Cromakill Creek in North Bergen almost certainly perpetuates the memory of the Paunpeck, a passenger ferry operating out of the Hoboken Terminal carried commuters to and from Manhattan until construction of the Holland and Lincoln tunnels terminated the service. PEQUANNOCK (Morris, Passaic, and Sussex counties). Heckewelder (1834:375) thought that the name that he spelled Pequonock came from a Delaware Indian word, pekhánne, “dark river.” Whritenour thinks that Pequannock sounds more like a Munsee word, *pohkawahneek, “a creek between two hills.” Also occurring as Poquonnock in Connecticut (see above), the name spelled Pequannock in northern New Jersey adorns a 20-mile-long river and many places in and around its valley. The Pequannock River rises in the Hamburg Mountains in Sussex County. Crossing into Passaic County, the river serves as a boundary with Morris County as it flows to its junction with the Pompton River at Pompton Plains (see below). The Pequannock River was first mentioned in East Jersey colonial records as the Poquanock River in an April 1, 1694, Indian deed to land along the stream’s lower reaches (New Jersey Archives, Liber B:651). It was came from Dutch- and English-speaking communities farther downriver. In 1798, the hamlet joined together with the neighboring community of Pompton Plains to form the Morris County Township of Pequnnack. Spelling of the name ultimately shifted to the modern form of Pequannock noted in Gordon’s (1834:213) gazetteer. Today, much of the Pequannock River valley above the densely developed lower river lies within the 15,000-acre Pequannock Watershed owned and operated by the City of Newark’s Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation. POCHUCK (Sussex County). Whritenour suggests that Pochuck comes from poocheek, a Munsee cognate of the Southern Unami word puchèk, “inside corner or angle.” Pochuck is the name of the eight-mile-long creek that carries waters flowing into it from Wawayanda Creek (see below and in New York above) and Black Creek to the stream’s junction with the Wallkill River at Pochuck Neck. The name also adorns the 503-acre Pochuck State Forest, whose lands include Pochuck Mountain and a section of the Appalachian Trail that passes across its northern slopes. Recognizably respelled Lake Pochung is located at the southern end of the Pochuck State Forest. its line into the nearby Vernon Valley in 1871. Trains also brought equipment and carried back produce grown on family farms that today constitutes the economic backbone of the Pochuck Valley economy. POMPTON (Morris and Passaic counties). Heckewelder (1834:375) thought that Pompton was a Delaware Indian word, pihmtom, “crooked mouthed.” Whritenour instead thinks that the name sounds more like an anglicized version of a Munsee word, *pumbahtun, “the down sloping mountain.” Today, Pompton is the name of a river, a lake, a borough, and several localities in and around what is often referred to as the waist of Passaic County where the Ramapo (see below) and Pequannock (see above) rivers join to form the Pompton River. In 1895, several communities situated along the narrowest part of the county’s waist joined together to form the Borough of Pompton Lakes. The borough’s boundaries now take in the hamlet The locale was home to the Pompton Indian community, also known as the Opings, a name first mentioned as Opingona in a travel report written by Dutch governor Petrus Stuyvesant on May 11, 1653 (in Grumet 1994). By the 1690s, Pompton had become a diverse Indian community, whose population included many native people from neighboring New York, others from New Jersey, and a number of Wampano-speaking people from southwestern Connecticut. Most of these people left the area after accepting a cash settlement of 1,000 Spanish pieces of eight paid by New Jersey officials to extinguish all but their hunting and fishing rights in the northern part of the province at the Treaty of Easton on October 23, 1758 (New Jersey Archives, Liber I-2:89-94). 50 POTAKE (Passaic County). Potake Pond (see in New York above) straddles the state line above Ringwood. PREAKNESS (Passaic County). Whritenour thinks that Preakness sounds like *peelakunaas, perhaps an otherwise unrecorded Munsee personal or animal name that means “one who takes the outer layer off of something.” Preakness Mountain is a northern ridge of Second Watchung Mountain (see below) mostly located in Wayne Township at the northeastern corner of Passaic County. Early appearances of the name occurred in the forms Prekemis in 1735, Prakenas in 1766, and Preakness in 1771 (Wardell 2009:83-84). Today, the name adorns a mountain, a community, and several other places in the area. The Preakness Ridge was once called Packanack Mountain (see above). Another of its earlier names, Harteberg, Dutch for “deer mountain,” led many to think that Preakness was a traveled from