[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 (Sussex County). Nora Thompson Dean (in Weslager 1976:145) thought that Sekatarius, one of the many simKIAMENSI (New Castle County). Whritenour thinks that ilarly spelled names used to refer to a lower Hudson Valley sachem Hwiskakimensi, first mentioned in the 1655 Lindeström map (in A. originally identified as Sukkurus who moved south along the Jersey Johnson 1925: Map A), sounds very much like a Delaware Indian Shore to Delaware adorns Sockorockets Ditch, a small headwater of Indian Creek within land traditionally identified as Nanticoke territory. WHITE CLAY (New Castle County). The 3,300-acre White Clay Creek State Park, and the 19-mile-long White Clay Creek and its East, Middle, and West Branches that flow into Delaware from Pennsylvania, bear the English version of the Delaware Indian place name Opasiskunk. Whritenour translates Opasiskunk as “place of white clay.” Opasiskunk was noted as the home of the sachem Kekelappan who sold half of his interest in lands between the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers to William Penn’s agents on September 10, 1683 (State of Pennsylvania 1838-1935, Pennsylvania Archives, 1st Series 1:67). 78 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet a year later. Americans moving to new homes built at the lower end of Aquashicola Creek in 1806 named their community Millport. Local residents adopted the name Aquashicola after resorts opened along the creek during the 1850s became popular Pocono region tourist destinations. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet BUCKWHA (Carbon and Monroe counties). Buckwha is a relocated contraction of pockhápócka, a variation of Pohopoco (see below) that Heckewelder (1834:358) identified as a Munsee name for the Lehigh Gap. That name first appeared as Buckabuka in an April 6, 1744 entry in a journal kept by Moravian missionaries John Martin Mack and Christian Froelich documenting a trip to the Susquehanna River valley (in F. Johnson 1904:31). Today, Buckwha is the name of a 13-mile-long creek that flows into Aquashicola Creek (see above). It is possible that an even more altered form of pockhápócka may have traveled farther east to Buckabear Pond, one of a cluster of bear-themed place names in the Passaic County Thomas De Kay was sent to what he called Cashighton in December 1745, during the height of the third French and Indian War. De Kay was ordered to find out the truth behind a rumor that Indians at the place were getting ready to support a forthcoming French and Indian attack. Arriving at the town, he found between 90 and 100 men and their families who had fled from their homes farther east in Orange and Ulster counties in fear of an English assault. Agreeing that all attack fears were unfounded, De Kay convinced the Indians to meet with provincial authorities to formally reaffirm friendly relations in the spring. The Indians subsequently came to the Orange County seat of Goshen, where they put their marks to a treaty with New York and signed deeds that finally surrendered the vast expanse of Hardenbergh Patent lands in the Catskills that colonists had claimed since 1707 (Ruttenber 1906b). Required to leave their lands on the New York side of the Delaware River after signing the deeds at Goshen, many Indians who had lived in and around the Catskills moved to the Indian town of Cochecton across the river in Pennsylvania. Sachems from that town, whose numbers included Nutimus, Teedyuscung, and Kappus (see Kappus in New Jersey Central above, Netimus and Teedyuskung below, and Capouse in Pennsylvania Central in Part 2), were among the Indians who later sold all of their remaining lands to the west of the Delaware River north of the Delaware Water Gap to New Englanders in three deeds signed between December 20, 1754, and October 27, 1755 (Boyd and Taylor 1930-1971 1:196200; 260-271; 308-314). These sales occurred just as many Delawares, inspired by early French and Indian victories over the LACKAWAXEN (Pike County). Like Lackawack in New York, Heckewelder (1834:359) thought that Lackawaxen came from a Delaware Indian word, lechauwêksink, “the forks of the road, or the parting of the roads; where the roads take off in various directions.” Basing his etymology on the name’s earliest recorded form, Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet Lechawachsein, Whritenour thinks it more likely that Lackawaxen was originally a Munsee word, (eenda)