[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 as Wishilimensy and Achilomonsing, sound like the Munsee words *wchulamiinzhuy, “wrinkled or shriveled tree,” and *wchulamiinzhiing, “place of wrinkled or shriveled trees.” Today, Woosamonsa is the name of a small country road in Hopewell Township. The route to the present-day name of Woosamonsa begins with a reference to a place called Wissomency dated May 13, 1689 (State of New Jersey 18801949 21:390). It next appeared as Wishilimensy, a place near Hockin Creek (see Alexauken above) mentioned in an April 16, 1701, entry for a survey of 3,000 acres of West Jersey Society land (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:388). The name was subsequently mentioned in a November 16, Today, Alloway in southern New Jersey is the name of a creek, a lake, a township, a village, and several roads. New Sweden colonial engineer and mapmaker Pehr Lindeström first noted a stream following the current course of Alloway Creek that he identified as the Oÿtsesingh or Korten Revier (the latter name is Swedish for “short river”) in his 1655 Nova Süecia map (in A. Johnson 1925: Map A). The earliest known occurrences of the name Alloway were documented by colonists recording the participation of a local sachem identified by the same name in deeds signed between 1675 and 1683 conveying land along and around what was first referred to as Allowayes Creek in a deed signed on March 14, 1676 (Stewart ANNARICKEN (Burlington County). Present-day Annaricken 1932:62-66). This 23-mile-long mostly tidal stream, also called Brook is a three-mile-long stream that flows into Assiscunk Creek Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 65 (see below) in Springfield Township just north and east of Fort Dix post-colonial reference to a tract of land “called Ca-ta-nan-gut, near Cohanzey on Dellaware River” mentioned in an Indian sale of land in the area signed on June 25, 1683 (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:575). CHEESEQUAKE (Middlesex County). Nora Thompson Dean (in Kraft and Kraft 1985:45) thought that Cheesequake sounded very similar to a Southern Unami word, chiskhake, “land that has been cleared.” The Lenape Talking Dictionary lists chiskhakink with the same translation (Lenape Language Preservation Project 2011). Today, Cheesequake Creek, Cheesequake State Park, and the nearby neighborhood of Cheesequake are located in Old Bridge Township. Colonists first noted the existence of a creek variously identified as Cheesquakes and Cheesequaques in an Indian deed to land in the area dated February 26, 1686 (Budke 1975a:65A-65B). Residents in the area used the word Cheesequake when talking about the local three-mile-long tidewater creek (Gordon 1834:120). They also employed the name when referring to the Zinckkarowes, the earliest known spelling of the name first recorded in an Indian deed to land in the area signed on August 5, COHAWKIN (Gloucester County). Whritenour thinks that Co1650 (New Jersey Archives, Liber 1:6-7), sounds much like a hawkin sounds like a Delaware Indian word, kuwehòking, “in the Northern Unami word, *chiingaaluwees, “stiff tail.” It later ap- pine tree land.” Present-day Cohawkin and West Cohawkin roads peared as Changororissa in the October 17, 1664, authorization link the communities of Paulsboro and Jefferson in the Mantua (Christoph and Christoph 1982:53) for the June 5, 1665, purchase River valley (see below). The name initially appeared in the forms of land around Changarora (Municipal Archives of the City of New of Quiahocking, mentioned on August 21, 1694, Quihochin, on JanYork, Gravesend Town Records, Deeds:74). uary 24, 1700, and “Peockunck alias Quihocking,” later that year Today, Chingarora Creek is the name of a small tidewater on October 22 (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:606, 608, 627stream that flows into Raritan Bay at Keyport. Clammers harvested 628). Cohawkin was noted in its present-day spelling as a locality particularly succulent Chingarora oysters from beds lying just be- in the Piles Grove Precinct in a will dated January 8, 1723 (State of yond the creek’s mouth that were prized by New York City gour- New Jersey 1880-1949 23:438). The locale was also identified as mands until pollution caused authorities to stop oyster fishing in “Covehauken or ‘Capt. John Neck,’” in a will dated August 20, Raritan Bay during the early 1900s. Although the fame of Chin- 1734 (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 35:506). garora oysters has since faded into forgetfulness, the name remains