[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] at Allamuchy (see in New Jersey North above) and the Great Meadows. From there, it flows into Warren County past the 4,811-acre Pequest Wildlife Management Area to the Borough of Belvidere, where the on state maps. Reading’s description of Pophannuck as a considerable stream located about a mile below Penungachung Hill (see Manunka Chunk above), however, much more closely matches the course of the Pequest River several miles north of Pophandusing Brook. PRESCOTT (Hunterdon County). Prescott Brook is a four-milelong tributary of the South Branch of the Raritan River. The brook 61 was one of several streams dammed to create the Round Valley Reservoir in 1960. Although Prescott appears to be a surname of English origin, the spelling of the brook’s name probably is an anglicized rendering of Piskot, a Dutch nickname given to an Indian man whom John Reading, Jr. (1915:45) failed to engage as a guide during his surveys along what he called “the southerly branch of the Rarington River” on June 1, 1715. Whritenour affirms that Piskot is a Jersey Dutch word meaning “polecat or skunk.” A reference to Piscot Brook as the name of the stream presently called Prescott Brook in Gordon’s (1834:217) gazetteer strengthens the case for the Dutch etymology. RARITAN (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset, and Union counties). Whritenour thinks that Raritan, the name of the river whose waters course through the largest watershed in New Jersey, sounds like a Munsee word, *leelahtune, “amid the mountains.” Rising in the ridges and valleys of the Appalachian uplands at the northwestern end of the state, the Raritan River and its many tributaries drain a 1,100-square-mile area that contains more than 100 municipalities in seven counties. The name also adorns the bay into which Raritan River waters flow, as well as a number of places along the bay’s shores. Raritan first appeared in colonial records as the name used to identify Indians who found themselves at war with Dutch colonists and their native allies in 1640. Many of the erstwhile Indian adversaries of the Raritans subsequently took refuge among them after the Dutch turned against all native people living around Manhattan in 1643. More than a few embittered refugees from Indian communities in present-day Westchester County that had been shattered by the war remained in Raritan country after most Indian adversaries fighting the Dutch signed a treaty restoring peace to the region in 1645. Colonists were not the only people menacing Indians living in the Raritan River valley at this time. Extant records show that Indians living in central New Jersey had ambivalent relations with the powerful Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannock nation whose main town was located about 100 miles to the west in the lower Susquehanna River valley. Susquehannocks attacking River Indian towns between the 1630s and 1640s required that their warriors help defend their town against Iroquois attacks twenty years later. The Creek in Hunterdon County bears the same name as Rockaway in New York and the Rockaway River (see in New Jersey North above). The creek, however, is an upper Raritan River valley tributary that rises along a ridge at the northern end of Tewksbury Township. Flowing in a generally southern direction, the creek is joined by its South Branch just beyond the Round Valley Reservoir at Cushetunk Mountain (see above). The conjoined waters of the stream then join the Lamington River farther to the east in Branchburg Township. ROXITICUS (Morris County). Whritenour thinks that Roxiticus sounds something like a Munsee word, *waakwsihtukwus, “fox creek.” Roxiticus currently serves as the name of several roads, a golf course (founded in 1964), and the Roxiticus Valley in and around the Borough of Mendham. The first appearance of a name similar to Roxiticus occurred in a reference to a river named Raskabakush running along the west bank of “Simons his Neck” in an April 22, 1690, Indian deed to land at the southeastern-most corner of the Town of Oyster Bay in present-day Nassau County, New York (Cox 1916-1940 1:358). The Simon of the aforementioned neck was John Seaman, an early settler of the Hempstead town village he named Jerusalem near the Oyster Bay border. Local residents were evidently still using the name in the form of Ruskatux when talking about Seaman’s Neck and its neighboring creek in 1868 when they renamed their community Seaford in honor of Seaman’s hometown in England. A New York colonist named Nathan Cooper from eastern Long Island evidently first gave the name Roxiticus to the tract of land that he purchased at Mendham sometime between 1730 and 1740. The name of the community of Roxiticus, originally located of the seventeenth century. Sanhican Drive, built near now filledin Sanhican Creek, became a major thoroughfare through a fashionable district at the west end of Trenton during the early decades of the twentieth century. It survives