[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] and Swedish records as a term identifying Susquepurchase (Dunlap and Weslager 1961:283). Today, Alapocas Run hannock Indians. Present-day Appoquinimink and Christiana creeks is a one-half-mile-long stream that flows entirely through parkland were variously known as Minquas Creek or Kÿl during colonial into Brandywine Creek at the community of Alapocas just across times. The name has also been resurrected in Delaware to adorn the the Wilmington city line. Places bearing the run’s name include 145- Minquadale and East Minquadale communities. acre Alapocas Run State Park, the recently designated Alapocas Woods Natural Area located in a section of the park first acquired MISPILLION (Sussex County). The present-day Mispillion River in 1910, and Alapocas Drive, built to provide scenic access into and is a 15-mile-long stream that flows into Delaware Bay from its headwaters west of Milford. William Penn listed Mespilion among through the area. the waterways in his province located below Philadelphia in 1683 APPOQUINIMINK (New Castle County). The present-day Ap- (in Myers 1912:238). The name most closely resembles what Robert poquinimink River in Delaware is a 15-mile-long stream that flows Evelin described as “a creek called Mosilian” located much farther from the Town of Townsend eastward into Delaware Bay. The name up the Delaware River near “the Fals made by a rock of limestone. was first mentioned as Apoquemena Kill in New Sweden governor . . about sixty and five leagues from the sea” in his letter of 1634 Johann Risingh’s report for 1654 (in Myers 1912:140). Lindeström published in 1648 (in Force 1836-1846 2:22). Although Weslager presented the stream’s Swedish, French, and Delaware names in his (1972:36) wrote that the position of Evelin’s Mosilian matches that reference to the “Minques Kÿl, La Riviere de Minques, or Apoquen- occupied by Crosswicks Creek (see in New Jersey South above) ema,” in his 1655 map (in A. Johnson 1925, Map A, 305-306). Ren- below the Falls of the Delaware at present-day Trenton in the text dered in a wide variety of differently spelled variants during the of his book, it was placed just southeast of Minisink (see above) in colonial era (such as Opapeumany in the 1696 Thornton map), the the volume’s “Lenape Heartland” map, a position repeated on later name was regularized into its current form following its appearance maps (e.g., “Lenape Bands in the Seventeenth Century,” in L. Williams 2009:84). as Apoquininunk Creek in the 1778 William Faden map. DELAWARE. The name adorns the state, the river that runs along NAAMAN (New Castle County). Naaman was the name of a its northeastern boundary, Delaware City in New Castle County, Delaware Indian leader who spoke for ten sachems from four Indian communities meeting with the newly arrived director general of and many other places. New Sweden, Johan Risingh, at Tinicum (see below) near presentDUCK CREEK (Kent County). Present-day three-mile-long Duck day Philadelphia in 1654. The name was probably a nickname, playCreek runs from Duck Creek Pond through the City of Smyrna to ing perhaps on some peculiarity in his name, appearance, or its confluence with the Smyrna River. The stream was noted in a demeanor that summoned up the image of Naaman, a Syrian general July 2, 1685, Indian deed as “Quing Quingus called Duck Creek” who, the bible says, adopted the Hebrew faith after a miraculous (State of Pennsylvania 1838-1935, Pennsylvania Archives, 1st Se- dip in the River Jordan cured his leprosy. Risingh’s chief engineer, ries 1:95). Heckewelder (1834:356) later wrote that quing quingus Peter Lindeström, subsequently noted a stream that he identified as was a Delaware Indian word for “grey duck.” The very similar- Naamans Kÿl and a waterfall near its headwaters adorned with the looking place name Quandus Quaricus was noted as an Indian name name of Naamansfallet in his 1655 map (in A. Johnson 1925: Map A). Naamans Creek (sometimes spelled Naaman), an 11-mile-long for Maspeth Creek in 1666 (see in New York above). waterway whose upper branches meander across the Delaware– HOCKESSIN (New Castle County). Whritenour thinks that Pennsylvania border, joins with the Delaware River at Naaman’s Hockessin sounds like a Southern Unami word, hòkèsink, “place of Bridge. The name also identifies the adjoining community of Naatree bark.” The name first appeared as Ocasson in a 1734 deed to man, Naamans Road, and several other places in the area. Places land along the Mill Creek branch of the Christina River (in Weslager named Nummy (see in New Jersey South above) probably refer to 1964:27). The landowner gave his permission to establish what was the Delaware sachem. Others elsewhere, such as Naaman School initially called the Hocesion Meeting House on his property in 1737 Road near Dallas in Garland, Texas, probably refer to the biblical (in Weslager 1964:13). Today, Hockessin is a suburb of Wilmington figure. located some eight miles northwest of the original site of Rocksen. SOCKOROCKET