[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 (Gehring 1977:71-72) as Sawkin, The name is a French-sounding alteration of a native name of a the home of a sachem residing on the east side of the Delaware place identified in documents chronicling Indian land sales in the River associated with chiefs from “Rancokes Kill” (see Rancocas area as Potpocka on December 12, 1663 (O’Callaghan and Fernow below). The place was subsequently referred to as an Indian town 1853-1887 13:316-317), Pootopecke on October 17, 1664 identified as Pemisoakin situated between two branches of Cimiss- (Christoph and Christoph 1982:53), and Pootapeck in the final title inck Creek (see Cinnaminson above) in a November 14, 1682, sur- transfer documents validating the earlier sales registered on April vey return. It was later identified as a place called Pemisoakin in a 7, and June 5, 1665 (Municipal Archives of the City of New York, June 11, 1685 deed (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:353), as Gravesend Town Records, Deeds:73-74). A variety of spellings that “Pensokin Creek alias Cropwell River,” in a deed dated October 6, included Poitipeck, Pottytuck, Portipeck, Portapeag, and “Portapeck 1696 (State of New Jersey 1880-1949 21:407), and as Pinsoakin alias Racoun Island” were used to identify a neck and an island near nial chronicles penned between the 1750s and 1770s as a Christian convert, a Princeton College graduate, a translator, and a frontier diplomat. His name also has adorned nearby Pumpshear Swamp and Pumpshear Brook, a small stream whose waters run from the swamp past Pumpshire Road into Silver Bay (formerly known as Mosquito Cove), an inlet of Barnegat Bay (Zinkin 1976:148). RAMANESSIN (Monmouth County). Whritenour thinks that Ramanessin means “paint stone,” from the Munsee words wallamman, “paint,” and achsin, “stone.” Rementer (in Boyd 2005:438) suggests a Southern Unami equivalent, olàmànahsen. In the same source, Rementer thought that the name also might mean “place of fish,” a combination of namèes, “fish” and the locative suffix -ink. Often called Hop Brook, Ramanessin Brook is a seven-mile-long tributary of the Swimming River that rises at Telegraph Hill at the northeastern end of the Mount Pleasant Hills. From there, the stream flows south through the 227-acre Ramanessin Tract Preserve into the Swimming River Reservoir and on into the Navesink River. Sachems of a place variously identified as Ramanessin on June 18, 1675 (New Jersey Archives, Liber 1:290[49]-289[50] on verso), Ramesing on May 22, 1676 (Monmouth County Records, Deed Book B:11-14), and Wromansung in documents dated August 12, 1676 (New Jersey Archives, Liber I:401-402), and September 29, 1676 (Monmouth County Records, Deed Book B:33-35), participated in land sales in the area. These ultimately led to the sale of their town site, identified as Romanese, on March 23, 1677 (New Jersey Archives, Liber 1:365[74] on verso). The stream name, now spelled Ramanessin, has remained on local maps along with its to visitors brought to the area by the New York and Long Branch Railroad. The hotel burned down during the 1930s. A namesake hotel that opened in 1921 at the Catskills resort town of Fleischmanns in upstate New York suffered the same fate in 1971. The Takanassee Beach Club currently occupies the site of the Takanassee Coast Guard Station (formerly U.S. Life Saving Station Number 5) deactivated in 1928. WAACKAACK (Monmouth County). Whritenour thinks that Waackaack sounds very much like a Munsee word, waakeek, “that which is curved or bent.” Waackaack Creek is a two-mile-long tidal stream that runs north from its junction with Mahoras Creek (see above) to the place where it flows into Raritan Bay at Keansburg. The name was first mentioned as “Waycack upon the sea coast” in the boundary description written into the June 5, 1665, Indian deed (Municipal Archives of New York City, Gravesend Town Records:74) to land at Navesink. Residents referred to their community as Waycake until Thomas Tanner erected a pier at the creek mouth that was subsequently known as Tanner’s Landing. Area tradition holds that local farmers bringing grain to be ground at Philips Mill located on banks of the creek started calling the place Granville sometime during the 1820s. Community residents finally adopted the name Keansburg in 1884 in honor of the prominent Kean family. Growth stimulated by an upsurge in tourism and fishing fueled the