[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Forks of Delaware following the Walking Purchase of 1737. More than a few of those who returned were converted to the Christian religion by the Presbyterian missionary brothers David and John Brainerd (see Brainerd above). The majority subsequently settled at the Brotherton Reservation (see Indian Mills above) established at Edgepillock in 1759. The small colonial hamlet of Manalapan, later called Tennent, was established just southeast of the Borough of Englishtown. The locale became a Revolutionary War battleground when American and British troops faced off at the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778. A post office given the name Manalapan had already been opened at Tennent when area residents named their newly established township Manalapan in 1848. The present-day community of Tennent Station, on the line of the now-defunct Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad built across the township after 1851, was originally named Manalapan Station. MANUNKA CHUNK (Warren County). Nora Thompson Dean (in Kraft and Kraft 1985:45) thought that Manunka Chunk closely resembled a Southern Unami word, mënàngahchung, “where the hills are clustered,” rendered as mënànkahchunk in the Lenape Talking Dictionary (Lenape Language Preservation Project 2011). She also thought that the name’s earliest known orthographic representation, Penungachung, sounded like a Southern Unami word, pënaonkòhchunk, “place where the land slopes downhill” (Lenape Language Preservation Project 2011). Whritenour thinks the latter spelling resembles a Munsee word, peenang wahchung, “one who looks at the hills.” Manunka Chunk currently is the name of a mountain, an island, a road, and an unincorporated community located on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River just a few miles south of the Delaware Water Gap. John Reading, Jr. (1915:40-42) used a variety of spellings for the name of the ridgeline he identified as the Penungachung Hills in journal entries made between May 18 and 21, 1715. A Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad official probably concocted the spelling Manunka Chunk about the time the company was laying track and cutting a 975-foot-long tunnel and Weamaconk Brook (see both in New Jersey South below) just east of the Borough of Englishtown in Monmouth County’s Manalapan Township (see New Jersey South below). It flows north from Monmouth into Middlesex County, where it becomes the border between Old Bridge and Monroe townships. The stream then joins with the Manalapan Brook at the Borough of Spotswood (formerly known as Weequehela’s Lower Saw Mill) to form the South River that flows into the Raritan River at the Borough of Sayreville. Matchaponix first appeared in an Indian deed dated October 10, 1690 (Monmouth County Records, Deed Book C:163), as Mechaponecks, the home of Ilhosecote (see Iresick above) and two other sachems selling land between Matawan and Mohingson creeks (see both in New Jersey South below). The name was subsequently mentioned in documents involving two tracts subsequently sold by Irooseeke’s son, Weequehela. The first was a deed of sale to land along what was called the Machiponix River on March 10, 1702 (New Jersey Archives, Liber H:220-221). The second document, signed on August 1, 1716, confirmed the earlier October 10, 1690 sale of a tract identified as the Mechaponecks Purchase (Monmouth County Records, Deed Book E:197). The straggling community that rose up along a severalmile-long stretch of land on the west side of present-day Matchaponix Brook during the mid-1700s took its name from the stream. The settlement became part of Monroe when the township was incorporated in 1838. It was around this time that the northern Club when the club acquired the property in 1993. It has more recently been adopted as the street name Mattawang Drive in a subdivision located a couple of miles to the east of the Millstone River at the junction of South Middlebush and Suydam roads in Franklin Township. METUCHEN (Middlesex County). Nora Thompson Dean (in Kraft and Kraft 1985) thought that Metuchen’s earliest known recorded spelling, Matockshoning, sounded like a Southern Unami word, mahtaks’haning, “prickly pear creek.” Whritenour thinks the orthography sounds like a Munsee word, *mahtaaksunung, “place of the prickly pear cactus.” Metuchen is a borough that was first incorporated in 1900. The September 14, 1677, Indian deed first mentioning Matockshoning identified it as the name of a place where a stake marked the boundary between the towns of Woodbridge and Piscataway (New Jersey Archives, Liber 1:251[89]-250[90] on verso). People living in the settlement that grew up around Matockshoning subsequently used a variety of spellings that included Matuchen, Mettuchinge, and Metuchin when referring to their community. Newspapers read by Metuchen area residents containing reports of diplomatic efforts undertaken by a Mahican leader named Metoxen to end fighting between Indians and Americans in the Midwest during the early national period may account for the local tradition holding that similar-sounding Metuchen was originally a sachem’s name. MINNEAKONING (Hunterdon County). The Delaware place name Minneakoning adorns a one-mile-long creek and