[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] such in a patent to land in Kennet Township confirmed on October 23, key national symbols as the wampum belt said to have been pre1701 (Futhey and Cope 1881:179-180). The stream was subse- sented at the meeting, the elm treaty tree preserved until 1810 on quently noted as Pocaupsing Creek in a survey of land in the area land where the city of Philadelphia built Penn Treaty Park in 1893 undertaken in March, 1711 (Futhey and Cope 1881:179-180). (Milano n.d.), and its best known representation, the much-celePocopson’s current spelling bears a resemblance to such similar- brated and even more widely reproduced painting of the non-event, looking Eastern Algonquian place names as Pocosin in South Car- completed in 1771 by Benjamin West, and copied more than a few olina, Poquoson in Virginia, Poquessing just above Philadelphia, times by folk painter Edward Hicks. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 91 Less well known is the mythical identification of Shackamaxon as the place where the Iroquois forced the Delawares to accept the ceremonial sobriquet of woman. The tradition arose from below the old junction of the Tacony and Wingohocking creeks is known as Frankford Creek, after the community located near the place where the stream flows into the Delaware River since the late 1600s. The name Tacony also graces the Tacony-Palymyra Bridge (opened in 1929) that crosses the Delaware River in the Frankford neighborhood. TAMANEND (Schuylkill County). The community of Tamanend in Schuylkill County bears the name of the Delaware sachem more SKIPPACK (Montgomery County). Heckewelder (1834:356) widely known as Tammany (see Tamiment in Pennsylvania North wrote that Skippack sounded very much like a Delaware Indian above). word, schkipeek, “standing, stinking pool of water.” Whritenour points out that Heckewelder’s word literally means “piss water.” TAMAQUA (Monroe and Schuylkill counties). Similar in appearToday, the name Skippack adorns the sixteen-mile-long creek flows ance and meaning to Tamaques (see in New Jersey North above), into Perkiomen Creek (see above) at the hamlet of Skippack in Tamaque Lake in the Monroe County Township of Tobyhanna and Skippack Township three miles above its junction with the the Borough of Tamaqua in Schuylkill County commemorate the Schuylkill River. memory of eighteenth-century Ohio Valley Delaware leader King Twenty years later, Delaware warriors launching attacks along the Pennsylvania frontier made Tulpehocken a byword for Indian vengeance. The valley that provided a corridor for attack subsequently became a major road, canal, and rail route linking the Susquehanna and Schuylkill river valleys. Today, the name Tulpehocken that graces a number of places in and around Berks County also occurs a transfer name in the City of Philadelphia and in states whose numbers include California and New Jersey (see in Part 3). UNAMI (Monroe and Montgomery counties). Goddard (2010:277nn.2) writes that wënáamiiw is a Munsee word meaning “speaker of Unami,” literally “downriver person”; wihwënaamíiwëw, “he or she speaks Unami.” Several places given the name in areas where Unami was spoken include the seven-mile-long Unami Creek tributary of Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County and Unami Path (and, possibly, nearby Watami Road) in the Arrowhead Lake development in Coolbaugh Township. WATAMI. See UNAMI 93 WECCACOE (Philadelphia County). Whritenour thinks Weccacoe sounds like a Southern Unami word, *wikwakwink, “at the end of the trees.” Weccacoe Avenue is located near the banks of the Delaware River in the Queens Village-Pennsport waterfront area of south Philadelphia. The name first appeared as Wigquachkoingh, a tract on the west bank of the Delaware River purchased by the Dutch from “Megkirehondom, sachem of Pemippachka” (see Pennypack above) on September 25, 1646 (Gehring 1981:16-17). The place was subsequently identified as Wickakee in Upland Town records in 1671 (State of Pennsylvania 1838-1935, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series 5:639). Variously noted as Witka Coo in 1673 (State of Pennsylvania 1838-1935, Pennsylvania Archives, Colonial Records 7:806) and Wicaco on November 13, 1677 (Armstrong 1860:67), and popularly applied to Old Swedes Church and other places in the neighborhood, Weccacoe Avenue is the only example of the name in Philadelphia on present-day maps. the banks of the Chemung River. These Valley mixed expatriate Indian communities largely consisting of factors account for the widespread occurrence of places named Munsee and other Delaware Indian people during the late 1750s Chemung and Shamong (see in Part 3). and early 1760s. Most of the Delawares living in these towns moved MONTOUR (Broome and Schuyler counties). The Town of Montour and the Village of Montour Falls bear the name of Catherine, sister of Esther Montour (see Queen Esther below) who became the leader of Catherine’s Town in Seneca Country at Montour Falls. A road named Montour Street located in the City of Binghamton also bears the family surname. OUAQUAGA (Broome County). Although Ouaquaga is often identified as an Iroquois word, the similar-looking Munsee place name Anguagekonk (see the entry for Waughkonk in New York in