[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 today as a secondary road paralleling Delaware River Drive (New Jersey State Route 29). Colonists first mentioned an Indian town just west of modern-day Marlboro that they identified as Toponemose in a deed dated August 24, 1674 (New Jersey Archives, Liber 1:271[68]270[69] on verso), and as Toponemes in another conveyance signed on February 25, 1686 (New Jersey Archives, Liber A:264). The Indians of Toponemus continued to live in their town for more than half a century after they sold their lands at the locale. They finally gave up the town site as part of the settlement hammered out at the Treaty of Easton on September 17, 1758. Most of the town’s population moved to the Brotherton Indian Reservation established under the terms of the treaty (see Indian Mills above). Many of these people remained there until 1801, when most moved to New Stockbridge (see in New York in Part 2 below) on Oneida Indian lands in SHABAKUNK (Mercer County). Whritenour thinks that New York. Shabakunk resembles a Munsee word, shapakwung, “place of mountain laurel.” Today, the name is attached to Shabakunk Creek, WEAMACONK (Monmouth County). Lucy Parks Blalock (in its West Branch, and Little Shabakunk Creek (also called Five Mile Boyd 2005) thought that Weamaconk sounded very much like a Creek). Streams bearing the Shabakunk name wind through com- Southern Unami word, wémakung, “place where there is almost munities in and around the upper parts of the city of Trenton on their nothing but trees.” Today, six-mile-long Weamaconk Creek rises way to the place where the creek’s main stem joins with Assunpink near the Borough of Freehold. The stream flows from Freehold west Creek (see above) in the marshlands below East Trenton Heights. through the 2,979-acre Monmouth Battlefield State Park to the place The name first appeared as Shabbacunk Brook in an Indian where it is joined by Wemrock Brook (see below). From there, the deed to land in the area dated June 4, 1687 (New Jersey Archives, creek runs on to its junction with McGellairds Brook in the Borough of Prallsville (Bohren 2014). Shoppons Run was initially noted in above) in the Monmouth Battlefield State Park. The spelling of the its current spelling in Amwell in 1771 (D’Autrechy 1990- stream’s name preserves an earlier orthography of Weamaconk. 1991:134). The spelling of nearly identical Shoppen Run twenty miles farther south in Monmouth County (see in Part 3) indicates WICKECHEOKE (Hunterdon County). Whritenour thinks that that some sort of relationship may link the two names. Wickecheoke sounds like a Northern Unami word, (eenda) *wichkaachkwik, “(where) there are birch trees.” Fifteen-mile-long TEPEHEMUS (Monmouth County). Whritenour (in Boyd Wickecheoke Creek flows from its headwaters in the hills west of 2005:443) suggests the translation “a lot of fish,” from the Munsee the Borough of Flemington south through the hamlets of Croton words tohpi, “a lot of,” and namèes, “fish.” Rementer, in the same (see in New Jersey in Part 3 below) and Locktown (see Lockatong source, suggests tèpi nàmès, “enough fish,” a word listed in a dic- above). From there, it enters a southwesterly trending stretch of tionary of the Delaware trade jargon. The name currently adorns gorges, waterfalls, and rapids to Sergeantsville, where the creek’s six-mile-long Tepehemus Brook that flows into McGellairds Brook waters flow beneath the last surviving covered bridge in New Jerin Manalapan Township (see above), Lake Topanemus impounded sey. The lowermost section of the stream below the bridge flows behind a dam built across McGellairds Brook above its confluence swiftly alongside Lower Creek Road to its junction with the with Tepehemus Brook in 1915, YMCA Camp Topanemus in Free- Delaware River at Prallsville. Several locales in the stream’s wahold Township, and several roads in the area. tershed are managed within the more than 21,000-acre WickBeyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet beginning with wick-, weck-, or watch- together with locative endings such as -oke, -ogue, or -ocky) in his 1738 map of the Walking Purchase. The name appeared as Wickhechecoke Creek in a spelling similar to its modern form in Gordon’s (1834:264) gazetteer. See entries for Weequahic above and Wickers Creek (see in New York above) for similar-appearing Delaware cognates. WOOSAMONSA (Mercer County). Whritenour thinks that early recorded forms of Woosamonsa, such