[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] of noted seventeenth-century sachem Ockanickon came from a Delaware Indian word, wôâkenícan, “an iron hook, pot hook.” Ockanickon was one of several brothers and other relatives, whose number included Sehoppy (Heckewelder thought that the latter man’s name may have come from the Delaware Indian words, schiwachpí, “tired or staying [in one place],” or schéyachbi, “along the water’s edge or sea shore”), who served as leaders of communities located between New York Harbor and the midDelaware River valley. Ockanickon’s 1682 eloquent deathbed speech, in which he disowned his designated successor Sehoppy in favor of his brother’s son, Jahkursoe (Cripps 1682) made the sachem’s name famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Today, his name adorns the Ockanickon Boy Scout camp in the Tohickon River valley (see below). OKEHOCKING (Chester County). Okehocking is currently the name of a small run, a development built in 1986 named Okehocking Hills, and a nearby 180-acre preserve established in 2001 by Willistown Township. All are located south of the 500-acre tract that William Penn set aside for the local Okehocking Indian community in 1703. Farms and mills built after the Indians left in the 1720s gave way to high style homes located in and around the present-day Okehocking Historic District. Pipe (see in Indiana in Part 2 below) and Captain Chipps in their response to a questionnaire circulated by Michigan territorial governor Lewis Cass between 1821 and 1822 (in Weslager 1978:165). PASSYUNK (Philadelphia County). Nora Thompson Dean (in Kraft and Kraft 1985:45) thought that Passyunk sounded much like a Southern Unami word, pahsayung, “in the valley.” The name first appeared in a reference to a June 5, 1654, meeting between New Sweden’s governor Johan Risingh and Indians from “Passajungh (where the principal sachems, i.e., chiefs or rulers of the savages now live). . .” (in A. Johnson 1925:126). Lindeström placed Passajungh where the present-day Passyunk neighborhood is presently located in South Philadelphia on his 1655 map (in A. Johnson 1925: Map A, 369). The name subsequently appeared in such forms as Passayonck, Pesienk, and Passyunk (the latter located at the southeastern corner of the mouth of the Schuylkill River in the 1792 Howell map). Established as a township in 1741, Passyunk was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia under the terms of the Act of Consolidation in 1854. Today, the name continues to adorn a number of streets and other places in and around the center of the old township at Passyunk Square. 90 PENNYPACK (Montgomery and Philadelphia counties). Heckewelder (1834:356) thought that Pennypack sounded much like a Delaware Indian word, pemapéek, “pond, lake or bay; water having no continual current; a narrow long pond.” The Lenape Talking Dictionary contains entries for pèmikpeka, “where the water flows,” and pënëpèkw, “where the water flows downward” (Lenape Language Preservation Project 2011). Whritenour suggests a possible Southern Unami cognate of the Northern Unami word pemapachge, “a rock.” The name first appeared as the home of Megkirehondom, the sachem of Pemipachka who sold land on the west bank of the Delaware River at Wigquachkoingh (see Weccacoe below) in present-day Philadelphia to the Dutch on September 25, 1646 (Gehring 1981:16-17). Pennypack Creek was initially noted as Penickpacka Kÿl in the 1655 Lindeström map (in A. Johnson 1925). In 1683, William Penn (in Myers 1912:238) listed the stream he called Pemmapecka among the lesser creeks and rivers in what he termed “the freshes” of his province. Spelled in such ways as Pemecacka, Pemibaccan, and Pemopeck, the stream was also noted as the Dublin creek and children along its banks (in R. Dunn et al. 1981-1986 3:132, 179). On February 17, 1700, Penn directed the survey of a 10,000-acre tract that he named the Manor of Perkesey. Penn shortly thereafter ordered that the manor be conveyed to his newborn son, John (Buck 1888:242, 367). The land was subsequently divided up among all of Penn’s children. In 1759, one parcel of the tract was given to the University of Pennsylvania for its support under the provision that it never be sold to someone not belonging to the proprietary family. Modern-day Perkasie has long been regarded as the location of an Indian town where Penn met to sign a treaty with Delaware chiefs. Local historians cite a statement made during the 1740s by Delaware leader Sassoonan (also called Allumapies; see Shamokin in Pennsylvania central in Part 2 below) recalling his attendance at Penn’s first meeting with the sachems at the Perkasie locale when he was a boy (in Myers 1970:83). Perkasie was an established colonial community called Perhaessing by its residents at the time Sassoonan made his statement. It is difficult at this far reBeyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet move in time to determine whether Sassoonan was identifying an Indian town of Perkasie as the meeting locale or specifying the colonial settlement of Perkasie as