[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 on modern-day maps as Chingarora Creek and as the name of Chin- CONASKONK (Monmouth County). Nora Thompson Dean (in garora Avenue in Keyport. Kraft and Kraft 1985:45) thought that Conaskonk came from a Southern Unami word, kwënàskung, “place of tall grass.” WhriteCINNAMINSON (Burlington County). Nora Thompson Dean (in nour concurs, suggesting a Northern Unami equivalent consisting Kraft and Kraft 1985:45) thought that the name of present-day Cin- of gun, “long or tall,” askw, “grass,” and the locative suffix -onk. naminson Township sounded like a Unami word, ahsënamènsing, Today, Conaskonk Point juts into Raritan Bay in the Borough of “rocky place of fish.” The name first appeared as Sinessingh just to Union Beach. A place identified as Conneskonck was first menthe south of another place noted as Poenpissingh on the 1655 Lin- tioned as one of the tracts of land just south of the bay sold by local deström map (in A. Johnson 1925: Map A). It was next mentioned Indians on August 5, 1650 (New Jersey Archives, Liber 1:6-7). Indian town of Quoexin, on one of the branches of Ancocus River south of Crosswicks and given to the surrounding town when it in[see Rancocas below]” (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:374). corporated in 1798. Colonists first used the name Crosswicks to The stream was subsequently identified as “Mill Creek or Thomas identify the “small river called Croswicksum” and the Indian town Evans Run [now the Southwest Branch of the Rancocas River also on its banks mentioned in a deed to land in the area dated January known in the past as the Middle Branch and as Ayres Mill Creek] 14, 1686 (Salter and Beekman 1887:250). near the Indian town called Coerxing” in the December 14, 1749, Crosswicks Creek became a well-known stream to adjustment of the border separating what were then known as Ever- colonists who repeatedly referred to it as a boundary line in subsesham (today’s Evesham) and Northampton (present-day Southamp- quent land purchases made between 1689 and 1709. David Brainerd ton and Mount Holly) townships (in Flemming 2004:97). Flemming preached to Delaware Indians living at Crosswicks between 1744 went on to note that the Coaxen Run mentioned in the October 8, and 1746 (see Brainerd above). The locale later served as a treaty 1740 Indian purchase of land along its banks was probably mod- site where Indians from southern New Jersey concluded a separate ern-day Little Creek (New Jersey Archives, West Jersey Deeds, peace agreement with the provincial government on January 9, 1756 Liber E-F:76). The Indians returning to the area after being evicted (New Jersey State Library). The Indian parties to the treaty, whose from the Forks of Delaware by Pennsylvania authorities following numbers included several people identified as Crosswicks Indians, the Walking Purchase of 1737 used the deed to help secure their agreed to settle outstanding disputes, surrender title to all remaining title to unsold lands in New Jersey they had earlier left in 1727. lands, and accept a reservation. Coaxen became one of several Indian towns located within Terms agreed to at a subsequent meeting at Crosswicks what became known as the Wepink Tract (others included Wepink held on February 23, 1758 (New Jersey Archives, Liber I-2:45-47), and Alumhatta) that served as a central place for local native people set the groundwork for the general treaty agreement signed at Easbelonging to the Presbyterian congregation ministered to by John ton on the following September 12 (New Jersey Archives, Liber Brainerd (see Brainerd above). Many of these people began moving O:458-464). These terms specified that the Indians give up all to the Brotherton Reservation established a few miles farther east claims to land in the province below a line running from the Raritan in 1759 (see Indian Mills below). Most, but not all, left New Jersey River westward to Lamington (see in New Jersey North above) and following the sale of Brotherton in 1801 by the time the New Jersey on to the Delaware Water Gap. In return, they agreed to accept a legislature passed an “act appointing commissioners to take in reservation established for them in the Pinelands at Edgepillock, charge the Coaxen Lands” on March 13, 1806 (State of New Jersey soon named Brotherton, in