[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] County). Narraticon was among the Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet first Delaware place names documented in present-day southern New Jersey, appearing in some of the earliest Dutch maps of the region drafted during the 1630s (cf. Stokes 1915-1928 1: Color Plate 3, 39-40). English colonists subsequently noted that “Usquata sachem or prince of Narrattacus” was one of the Indians who sold land on the east bank of the Delaware River between today’s Raccoon Creek and Cape May to the colony of New Sweden in April 1641 (in A. Johnson 1925:209). Swedish cartographer Lindeström noted a stream he called the Narraticons Kijl at the location of present-day Raccoon Creek and another place he identified as Narraticon’s Island (present-day Raccoon Island) near the mouth of the Narraticons Kijl in his 1655 map (in A. Johnson 1925: Map A). The locale was subsequently documented as Navatikonck in the 1696 Thornton map. Five-mile-long Narraticon Run currently flows into Raccoon Creek in the Borough of Swedesboro. The name also adorns Lake Narraticon, created when a stretch of Narraticon Run was the Civilian Conservation Corps flooded Meisle Cranberry Bog during the 1930s), all bear the name of an Indian man called Nummy. He was initially mentioned in the area as a party involved in an unauthorized sale of a harpooned dead beached whale in a September 4, 1685, Cape May court action (in Stewart 1932:21). He was later noted as Mr. Tom Numimi in an April 13, 1688, deed to land in the area (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:424). The similarlooking name of nearby No Mans Island in Grassy Sound may link 73 Nummy with Naaman, a contemporary lower Delaware River val- Map A). Pochack was first mentioned by name on August 7, 1682 ley sachem (see in the state of Delaware below). as a locality called Putshack in the Third Tenth of West Jersey (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:398). The Camden Water Department OBHANAN (Ocean County). Obhanan Ridgeway Branch is a continues to formally identify Pochack as the Puchack Run and Well three-mile-long upper reach of Ridgeway Branch, a major Toms Field. River tributary. The stream flows almost entirely within the Colliers Mills Wildlife Management Area. The name was first mentioned as POMPESTON (Burlington County). The name Pompeston first “a cedar swamp commonly called Onhoman” in a July 12, 1734 appeared as Poenpissingh between the Rancoqueskÿl (see Rancocas deed to land in the area signed by several Indians whose numbers below) and Sinessingh (see Cinnaminson above) on the 1655 Linincluded Teteuskund, a minor signatory later widely known farther deström map (in A. Johnson 1925: Map A, 376.). Identified as west in Pennsylvania as the Delaware Indian King Teedyuscung Pumpissinck Creek on a deed to land in the area dated November (M. Becker 1992:56). 1-2, 1682 (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:399), eight-mile-long Pompeston Creek presently flows in Cinnaminson Township OCKANICKON (Burlington County). Camp Ockanickon is a through the town center into the Delaware River at the Borough of YMCA camp for boys founded in 1906 near Medford named for Riverton. the prominent seventeenth-century Delaware River valley sachem discussed below in Pennsylvania. PORICY (Monmouth County). Poricy is currently the name of a brook, a pond, a lane, and a 250-acre park. The name first appeared PATCONG (Atlantic County). Present-day 15-mile-long Patcong as Porisy Run in a patent for land near present-day Middletown enCreek flows from its place of beginning at the forks of the Mill tered on January 10, 1677 (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:26). Brook and Cedar Brook through Lake Patcong to Bargaintown. The Regarded as an Indian place name, it also strongly resembles Porstream below Bargaintown is a tidal river that flows into Great Egg tici, the name of a palatial royal Italian villa located on the slopes Harbor Bay at the Patcong Inlet. The name first appeared as Pat- of Mount Vesuvius noted for its elaborately landscaped gardens. conck Creek in a November 10, 1695, deed to land in the area (State Colonists in several provinces, hoping to attach some of the grace of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:670). can, “parsnip” and its Southern Unami cognate *pinseokan. Noting shark teeth, and other animal remains exposed along the brook’s that parsnips were unknown in the Americas before the coming of banks. the Europeans, Whritenour suggests that the Unami word may have originally referred to a similar-looking native wild root. PORT-AU-PECK (Monmouth County). Whritenour thinks that all Pennsauken Creek is a four-mile-long tidal tributary of the spellings of this place name sound very much like a Northern Delaware River formed by the junction of its 20-mile-long North Unami word, putpeka, “deep still water or bay.” Today, Port-auand South Branches at East Pennsauken. Pennsauken was first Peck is the name of a neighborhood in the Borough of Oceanport. chronicled as on May 13, 1675