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51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the point or promontory."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To meet, _Amhannes_ means"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A small river, and the suffix _-ing_ is locative. The composition reads:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A place where streams... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Highland Indians"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Armed men."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 427.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Affinity,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Montauks and others of Long Island, Wappingers of Duchess County, Esopus, Papagoncks, &c., of Ulster County, generally denominated River Indians, spok... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the Sackett Patent, was translated by Dr. Trumbull, from Conn. Records:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "_pog_ (paug),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and _att_ locative--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beginning at the (a) long pond. The na... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and _meek_"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great rock, and belongs to the hill, which rises 400 or 500 feet above the valley and is crowned with a mass of naked rock, described by one writer as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A waterfall near the bank of the river called Pooghkeepesingh; [FN-1] in petition of ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This fifth day of May, 1683, appeared before me . . . a Highland Indian called Massang, who declared herewith that he has given as a free gift, a bouwery (farm) to Pieter Lansingh, and a bouwery to Jan Smeedes, a young glazier, also a waterfall near the bank of the river, to bui... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "etc. The deed to Livingston conveyed lands"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On both sides of Roelof Jansen's Kill, [FN-1] called by the Indians Sauk-henak, including lands"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the Livingston Patent of 1684:"
},
{
"fro... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fast or steady reach or sailing course,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which, with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "were included in the first purchase by Livingston, and described as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Situate on both sides of... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A dry gully at Hudson's River. It is located about opposite Sawyer's Creek, north of the present Saugerties or Esopus Creek. _Sasco,_ or as written _Saaska,_ means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A swamp; _Assisku_ (Del.),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To the high woodland called Wawanaquasik, and in the Livingston Patent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The heap of stones here was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and other paths diverged, showing that the place was a place of meeting."
},
{
"fro... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rock, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as qualified by the adjectival prefix, _Onap'sk,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Standing rock."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A meeting point,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stoneheap Pa... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--specifically by the surveyor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To a heap of stones laid together on a certain hill called by the Indians Ahashawaghkik, by the north end of Taghanick hill or mountain --has been translated from _Nash-ané-komuk_ (Eliot),"
},
{
"... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is written _Tachkanick_ in the Indian deed of 1685; _Tachhanick_ in the Indian deed of 1687-8;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Land called _Tachhanick_ which the owners reserved to plant upon when they sold him _Tachhanick,_ with the land called Quissichkook; _Tachkan... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Moravian missionaries wrote, in 1744, _W'takantschan,_ which Dr. Trumbull converted to _Ket-takone-wadchu,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great woody mountain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of which Ahashawagh-kameck was the north. _Wichqua_ is su... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "known later as Claverack Creek. It may be translated from _Sóhk,_ Mass.,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and _ûk,_ locative,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the outlet"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clover reach--a sailing course or reach, so called from three bare or open fields which appear on the land, a fancied resemblance to _trefoil_ or three-leaved clover, wrote Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter in their Journal in 1679-80. Presumably the places are specifically locat... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Major Abraham was Major Abraham Staats, who located on a neck of land on the north side of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Major Staats' Creek, now Stockport Creek. (See Ciskhakainck.)"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "West of Taghkanick, probably refers to... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lying north of Claverack [Hudson], on the east side of the river, along the Great Kill [Kinderhook Creek], to the first fall of water; then to the fishing place, containing two hundred acres, more or less, bounded by the river on one side and by the Great Kill on the other. Majo... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at an Indian burying-place hard by Kaphack, probably means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A separate place --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The tract began at"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and presumably took its name therefrom. ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, wrote Brodhead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Latitudes were not as easily determined in those days as they are now; and a careful computation of the distances run by the Half-Moon, as recorded in Juet's day-book, shows that on the 18th of September, 1609, when... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gesmessecks, etc., which extended north to Negagonse,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The northern limit seems to have been Unuwat's Castle on the north side of a stream flowing to the Hudson north of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_Sicajoock_ (Dutch not... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She bear, usually called Bear's Island. De Laet wrote"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beeren"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Indians frequently designated places by the names of esculent or medicinal roots which were there produced. In the Algonquin l... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Petanac, the mill stream ; in other records,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "De Laet's Marlen Kil and Waterval. _Petanac,_ the Indian name, is an equivalent of Stockbridge _Patternac,_ which King Ninham, in an affidavit... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "correctly, Whalefish Island. [FN] This island is now overflowed by the raising of the water by the State dam at Lansingburgh. The Indian name does not belong to the woodland; it locates the tract near the island, in which connection it is probably an equivalent of _Paugasuck,_"
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whale-fishing Island is a mistranslation of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walvish Eiland (Dutch), meaning simply"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whale Island."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine, handsome, good, etc., from which in the Delaware, Dr. Brinton derived _Wálám,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Painted, from the sense to be fine in appearance, to dress, which the Indians accomplished by painting their bodies, and _-'ompsk_ (Natick), with the r... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Green Mountains, presumably from their verdure, but actually from the appearance of the hills at a distance from the color of the rocks reflected in the atmosphere. To the Indian they were Wal'ompskeck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The termination _'chaik'_ signifi... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At a creek called Tomheenecks, beginning at the southerly bounds of Hoosick, and so running up southerly, on both sides of said creek, over the path which goes to Sanckhaick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and _ohke,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Plac... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land on the branch or division of a stream. The locative of the name was at the mouth of Hoosick River on the Hudson, in Washington County. The earliest record (1685) reads,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Land at _Schautecógue_ (-ohke). It is a generic name and appea... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To split,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To divide forcibly or abruptly. (Trumbull.) In Abnaki, _Peskétekwa,_ a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--_Peskahakan_ (Rale),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the Delaware, Zeisberger wrote _Pasketiwi... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lying on both sides of a certain creek called Hoosock, beginning at ye bounds of Schaakook, and so to a fall called Quequick, and thence upward to a place called Nachacqikquat. (Cal. Land Papers, 27.) The name may stand for _Cochik'uack_ (Moh.),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clear land,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dutch Hossuck, an early settlement described in petition of Hendrick van Ness and others, in 1704, as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 27, 74.) The head of the stream appears to have been the outlet of a lake now called _Pontoosuc_ from the nam... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Naked or Hairless Bear, has its culmination at a place"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "where the last one of those fabulous animals was killed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The story, writes Dr. Brinton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "T... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Waterquechey, or Quatackquaohe. Waterquechey (English) means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Moist boggy ground, indicating that _Quatackquaohe_ is an equivalent of _Petuckquiohke,_ Mass.,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Round-land place,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where a hill interposes, between the object spoken of and the speaker. The late Superintendent of the Bureau of Ethnology, Prof. J. W. Powell, wrote me:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From the best expert information in this office, it may be said that the phonetic v... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and by the Dutch _Sewan_ or _Zeewan,_ [FN-3] from _Sewaûn_ (Moh.), _Sueki_ (Nar.),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This money was both white and black (so called), the latter the most rare and valuable. It was in use by the Europeans as a medium of trade with the Indi... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Williams.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps derived from _Mehtauog,_ 'Ear-shaped,' with the generic suffix _hock_ (_hogki, hackee_), 'shell.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Eliot.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From this word the Du... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "etc. _Mash-antack-uk,_ Moh., was translated by Dr. Trumbull from _Mish-untugh-et,_ Mass.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Place of much wood. _Mannaⁿdakōō_ is quoted as the Abn. word for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_Mishquáwtuck,_ Nar.,"
},
{
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Water land, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Land overflowed by water. The beach extends some five miles on the southeast coast of Long Island. The marsh spreads inland from the beach nearly across the neck where it meets Napeak Harbor on the north coast. It is supp... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A tree marked X hard by the northward side of a cove of meadow --means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A cove. It is an equivalent of _Aucûp_ (Williams),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A little cove or creek."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whiteneymen, sachem of Mochgonnekonck, situate on Long Island. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv, 60.) Whiteneymen, whose name is written Mayawetinnemin in treaty of 1645, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Meantinnemen, alias Tapousagh, chief of Marsepinck and Rechawyck, in 16... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which reads:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The name of the pond is Quaunontowunk on the north and Konkhonganik on the south. Dr. Tooker translated the former from _Quaneuntéow-unk,_ (Eliot),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where the fence is, the refere... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The north fence from the pond to the sea, shall be kept by the town; the south fence, to the sea, by the Indians."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At or in the swamp, or marsh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the other side, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beyond the river, from _Awossi,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over, over there, on the other side, beyond, and _-tuck,_"
},... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cleared of trees,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Greatest field,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where the stream ebbs and flows."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the dry land. Old Man's Bay takes that name from the Great Neck called Cataconche, otherwise known as the Old Man's Meadow, and as the Old Field."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The two neckes or hoeces (hooks) of meadow that lieth next beyond the Old Man's Meadow ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Small-stone land"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where they divide in two. The name was early extended to a clan known as the Pochoughs, later Patchoogues, who seem to have been a family of the Onchechaugs, a name probably the equivalent of _Ongkoué_ (Moh.),"
},
{... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--_Namohs,_ Eliot; _Namés,_ Abn., _Namaes,_ Heck.; _Namees,_ Zeisb.; with suffix _-aki, -ohke,_ etc.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "place or country. _Améessok,_ Zeisb.; _Anmesooak,_ Abn., _Aumsûog,_ Mass.,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a generic s... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The beginning place. The description (1630) reads,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beginning at a place called, _i. e._ an object or feature which would definitely locate a boundmark--apparently an equivalent of _Schiechi-kiminschi-aki,_ Lenape,"
},
{
"from": ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the lands from Rockaway eastward to Sicktew-hackey, or Fire Island Bay ;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the south coast of Long Island, at a place called Sicktewacky, or Secontague, near Fire Island Inlet (Brodhead); Seaquetauke, 1659; Setauck Neck, the south ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--the name of the Thompson estate in Islip--probably means,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where the stream branches or divides, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the branch, referring to Thompson's brook. The suffix _-oos_ evidently stands for"
},... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "roots (Mass. _P'tuckweōō_), possibly the Golden Club, or Floating Artmi, a root described"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They also roasted and ate the acrid cormus of the Indian turnip, in Delaware _taw-ho, taw-hin_ or _tuck-ah,_ and collected the seeds of the Golden... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eastward to ye great creek called Massepe. The name is fully explained by the description,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great creek. _Massepe-auke_ means"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great creek (or river) land, or place; _Mas-sepe-ink,_"
},
{
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The meadow called Quaquunantuck --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of the boundmarks is described as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "indicating that it had been a marsh from which the trees had been remove... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marechkawicks, Nayecks, and their neighbors ; in the treaty of 1656,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rockaway and Canorise."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Near unto ye beaver pond called Jamaica, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "are of record, the latter presumably correct. The name is a pronunciation of _Tomaque,_ or _K'tamaque,_ Del., _Amique,_ Moh.,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jasper Dankers wrote in 1679:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the south (of Staten Island) is the great bay, which is enclosed by Najaq, t' Conijen Island, Neversink, etc. Conijen (modern Dutch, Konijn), signifies"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rabbit... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "about thirty miles from Brooklyn and midway between the north and south sides of the island--has been interpreted from its equivalent, _Manitou,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hill of the Great Spirit, but means strictly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A certain swamp where the water runs over the stones, and, in a subsequent deed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the sweet marsh (Hist. of Brooklyn), is an orthography of _Winnegackonck,_ meaning"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the sweet place,"
}... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good enclosed place, from _Winne,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good, fine, sweet, beautiful, pleasant, etc., and _-komuck,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Place enclosed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A point or corner. (_Nâïag,_ Mass., ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mechowout, chief sachem of Marossepinck, Sint-Sink and dependencies, and also extended to an Indian clan known as Marsepings, is no doubt an orthography of _Massepe_ and _-ing,_ locative. It means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At, to or on the great river. _Mas_ is ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Formerly called Cow Neck, and by the Indians Sint-Sink, was the name of a place now known as Manhasset. (Col. Hist. N. Y.) It means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Place of small stones,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Martin Garretson's bay. Garretson wa... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Martin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(Col. Hist. N. Y.) _Koo-menakanok-onck_ was the largest of two islands in the Delaware and was particularly identified by the Indian name, which means"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pine-tree-islands place."
},
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ending creek, because it was the end or boundary of the tract."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Called by the Indians Nackaquatok, and by the English Cold Spring. (Huntington Patent, 1666.) _Wanashque,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The tip or extrem... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Southold Records.) Hashamomock or Nashayousuck. (Ib.) The adjectivals _Hash_ and _Nash_ seem to be from _Nashaué,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Between, and _-suck,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The mouth or outlet of a brook. The suffix _-momuck,_... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A swamp at Potunk, is another entry. Dr. Trumbull quoted it as a form of _Po'dunk,_ Conn., which is of primary record,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Called _Potaecke,_ and given as the name of a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Brookfield, Mass., a br... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All that their island of _Ahaquasu-wamuck,_ otherwise called _Manhansack._ _Ahaquasu-wamuck_ is no doubt the equivalent of _Aúhaquassu_ (Nar.),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sheltered, and _-amuck_ is an equivalent of _amaug,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the point, comer, or promontory. The root _Ne_ (English _Nâï_), means,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To come to a point,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To form a point, or, as rendered by Dr. Trumbull,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A co... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The delegates from all the savage tribes, such as the Raritans, whose chiefs called themselves Oringkes from Orange. _Oringkes_ seems to be a form of _Owinickes,_ from _Owini,_ N. J. (_Inini,_ Chip., _Lenni,_ Del.), meaning"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Original, pu... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bushnet fishing place. Zeisberger wrote"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The locative was a point of land formed by a bend in Pasaeck River on the east side, now included in the City of Paterson. Jasper Bankers and Peter Sluyter wrote, in 1679-80:"
},
{
"from":... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hill or mountain, and _-unk,_ locative,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_Wachtsûnk,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the mountain (Zeisb.); otherwise written _Wakhunk._ The original application was to a hil... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Trumbull.) Rev. Thomas Campanus (Holm), who was chaplain to the Swedish settlements on the Delaware, 1642-9, and who collected a vocabulary, wrote _Hócküng_ (_ueug_),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hook. This sound of the word may have led the Dutch to adopt _Hackin... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first is a participle, meaning _Hooking,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "by metonymie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was used in that sense by the early Dutch as a substitute for Lenape _Hócquan,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in Ha... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the cliff as of"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A piece of land called Awiehaken, situate on the west side of the North River, bounded on the south by Hoboken Kil, and running thence north to the next kil, and towards the woods with the same breadth, altogether fifty morgens of land. [FN] (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 22.) The"
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "suggesting that it was from the Lenape radical _Tauwa,_ as written by Zeisberger in _Tauwi-échen,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open; as a noun,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open or unobstructed space, clear land, without trees. Dropping the initial... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "High, and _-ink,_ locative,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At or on a high place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Salt sedge marsh. (Gerard.) The Dutch found snakes on Snake Hill and called it Slangberg, literally,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Divided, broken, and _-ápuchk,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rock. Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, who visited the falls in 1679-80, wrote in their Journal that the falls were"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is this rock and chasm to which the nam... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are towns."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A certain tract of land in Orange County called Ramepogh, being upon Pompton Creek, about twenty miles above ye mouth of said creek where it falls into Pequanneck River, being a piece of low land lying at ye forks on ye west side of ye creek, and going down the said creek for ye... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is the name of the stream and the name of the settlement (in Rockland County, near the New Jersey line), and the land is low-lying, and along the creek, and above a forks, _i. e._ above the forks at Suffern. On the 1774 map in my possession, Romapock is certainly the prese... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Small lake or pond,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Small water-place."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A barren plain, in the Kakiate Patent, is probably from Wisachgan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bitter, sad, distressing, pitiable. Ziesberger wrote,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wisachgak, Black oak, the bark of which is bitter and astringent. A bl... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upland and meadow, so described in Indian deed, 1702, and included in the Cheesek-ook Patent, covering parts of the present counties of Rockland and Orange. It is now preserved as the name of a hill, to which it was assigned at an early date, and is also quoted as the name of ad... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "En effen veldt (a flat field), the general character of which probably gave name to the Indian village. Primarily, it was a district of low, soft land, abounding in marshes and long grasses, with little variation from level, extending along the Hudson from Tappan to Bergen Point... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dutch, trench, moat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sloops could enter the mouth of the creek, if lightly laden, at high tide, through what, from its resemblance to a ditch, was called the Slote."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rockland County, describe two different features. _Mattaconck_ was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "lying on the west side of Quaspeck Pond, from whence the line ran north, 72 degrees east,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "called Mattasinck. In the surveyor... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cove or Nyack Patent, near or on which the present village of Nyack has its habitations. It means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Land or place at the angle, point or corner, from _Néïak_ (Del.),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where there is a point.... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where water is, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Place of water. (Trumbull.) Quassa-paug or Quas-paug, is the largest lake in Woodbury, Ct. Dr. Trumbull failed to detect the derivative of _Quas,_ but suggested, Kiche,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gre... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The New Northwest Line."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sessegehout, chief of Rewechnong of Haverstraw. In Col. Hist. N. Y.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keseshout [FN-1] chief of Rewechnough, or Haverstraw,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curruppin, brother, and representative of the chief of Rumachnanck, ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sheriff. _K'schi-sakima,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chief, principal, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oat straw,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A piece of land and meadow lying upon Hudson's River in several parcels, called by the Ind... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A small rivulet of water called _Assin-napa-ink_ (Cal. N, Y. Land Papers, 99), from _Assin,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; _Napa,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or place of water, and _-ink,_ locative, literally,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A certain tract of land on the west side of Hudson's River, beginning on the south side of a creek called Assinapink, together with a certain island and parcel of meadow called Manahawaghin, and by the Christians Salisbury Island. The island lies about one mile south of directly... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turned down to the edge of the mountains, or the northernmost of the mountains, and anchored, because the high lands hath many points, and a narrow channel, and hath many eddie winds. So we rode quietly all night."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Near to a place called _Quasaik,_ 1709-10; _Quasseck,_ 1713;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "1714. It was employed to locate the place of settlement of the Palatine immigrants in 1709--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Parish of Quassaick, later,"
},... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think your reading of _Muchattoos_ as an orthography of original _Matchatchu's,_ is very plausible. I think _Massachusetts_ is the same word, plus a locative suffix and English sign of the plural. It was formerly spelled in many ways: Mattachusetts, Massutchet, Matetusses, etc... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A tortuous pool, puddle, marsh, at or near which the chief may have resided. _Rombout_ (Dutch) means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bull-fly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Place of red cedars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A wild, rugged a... |
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