Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History
[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. a type of chestnut still called a chinquapin in English. CHINTEWINK (Warren County). Whritenour thinks that Chintewink sounds like a Delaware Indian word, tschinktewink, “on the south or sunny side of the mountains.” Uncorroborated local tradition holds that Chintewink was the name of a Lenape Indian village located in present-day Phillipsburg said to have been entered onto a thus far unlocated version of the Jansson-Visscher map printed in Adriaen van der Donck’s Description of New Netherland, published in 1654. Chintewink Alley is the only place bearing the name in the present-day freestanding town of Phillipsburg. The name also occurs as Chintawink Lane several miles north of Phillipsburg in the hamlet of Harmony Station LANOKA (Ocean County). Occasionally regarded as a name of MONONGAHELA (Gloucester County). The name Monongahela Borough of Hopatcong. Brook was imported from Pennsylvania to adorn a small tributary of Mantua Creek (see above in New Jersey South in Part 1) some- PEAHALA (Ocean County). The name of the Long Beach Island time during the late nineteenth century. resort community of Peahala Park is probably a late Victorian adoption of the reputedly Delaware Indian word, pehella, “flood or much MOSELEM (Somerset County). Moselem Springs Road in Mont- rushing water,” found in the apocryphal Walam Olum. gomery Township is an import from Pennsylvania. PECKMAN (Essex County). Named for a local non-Indian family, MUNSEE (Somerset, Union, and Warren counties). Munsee Trail the Peckman River that flows into the Passaic River near Paterson in Branchburg, Somerset County, Munsee Drive in the Union is sometimes identified as an anglicized version of the Delaware InCounty community of Cranford, and the Warren County roads dian word, Pakim, “cranberry.” named Munsee Road in Hackettstown, and Munsee Lane in the hamlet of Harmony Station, are three of many places given this PENNY POT (Atlantic County). Sometimes identified as an angliname in recent years in New Jersey. cized version of a Delaware Indian place name (D. Becker 1964:59), the name that adorns Penny Pot Stream and the Penny MUSKINGUM (Burlington County). Muskingum Brook, Musk- Pot Park and Preserve, located near the place the stream flows into ingum Drive, and, perhaps, McKendimen Road, are imports from the Great Egg Harbor River, may come from the Dutch word paanOhio transplanted in Shamong Township (see Chemung in New pacht, “low, soft, or leased land.” York in Part 2 above). PICATINNY (Morris County). Whritenour thinks that Picatinny NARITICONG (Sussex County). Nariticong Avenue in the Bor- sounds much like a Munsee word, *pikahtunung, “at the crumbling ough of Hopatcong is a transplant of a Delaware Indian place name mountain.” The name, however, is a latecomer in an area already (see Narraticon and Rumson in New Jersey South in Part 1 above) extensively documented by the time Picatinny first appeared in local located elsewhere in New Jersey. records during the eighteenth century. See Grumet (2013:227) for further information. OLENTANGY (Bergen County). Olentangy, a Delaware name from Ohio, adorns a road in the Borough of Franklin Lakes. PLUCKEMIN (Somerset County). Long regarded as a Delaware Brooklyn. the banks of the Beaver Kill in the Town of Hancock. The community was named for Job Chilloway, a Unami Delaware Indian translator and frontier diplomat who, as far as the historic record indicates, never set foot in the community named for him in Delaware County. Job Chilloway was born in southern New Jersey, was converted to Christianity by the Moravian brethren at Wyalusing (see in Pennsylvania Central in Part 2 above), in 1770, and died in Ohio in 1791. The name of one of his sons, Tom Jelloway, graces several places in central Ohio. CROTON (Richmond County). Croton Avenue on Staten Island is an import from the Hudson River valley. HACKENSACK (Dutchess and Warren Counties). Originally from the valley straddling the New York–New Jersey line, the name spread beyond its original location fairly early on. Residents of a little crossroads community south of Poughkeepsie named their post office New Hackensack when it opened in 1836 (Kaiser 1965). Farther upstate, a 1,348-foot-high promontory overlooking the forks of the Hudson and Schroon rivers in Warrensburg was later given the name of Hackensack Mountain. ASPETONG (Orange and Westchester counties). This version of the Connecticut place name Aspetuck became very popular in and around northern Westchester County in New York during the late 1800s. It survives there today as Aspetong Road in Bedford, Old Aspetong Road in Katonah (see above in New York in Part 1), Mount Aspetong in the Town of North Salem, and the still-remembered though since subdivided Aspetong Farm estate built in 1899 HOMOWACK (Ulster and Sullivan counties). Folklorist Charles just across the Hudson River in the Orange County community of Gilbert Hine (1908:101) held that Homowack was an Indian word for “the water runs out.” Other writers have suggested different New Windsor. Delaware