Maschabeneer, Masseks, Maskack, Massekex, a certain tract or tracts of land in the present town of Shawongunk, appear in a description of survey, Dec. 10, 1701, of seven hundred and ten acres "at a place called _Maschabeneer Shawengonck,_" laid out for Mathias Mott, accompanied by an affidavit by Jacob Rutsen concerning the purchase of the same from the Indians. At a previous date (Sept. 22) Mott asked for a patent for four hundred acres "at a place called Shawungunk," which was "given him when a child by the Indians." Whether the two tracts were the same or not does not appear; but in 1702, June 10, Severeyn Tenhout remonstrated against granting to Mott the land which he had petitioned for, and accompanied his remonstrance by an extract from the minutes of the Court at Kingston, in 1693, granting the land to himself. He asked for a patent and gave the name of the tract "Called by the Indians _Masseecks,_ near Shawengonck," _i. e._ near the certain tract called Shawongunk which had been granted to Thomas Lloyd. He received a patent. In 1709, Mott petitioned "in relation to a certain tract of land upon Showangonck River" which had been granted to Tenhout, asking that the "same be so divided" that he (Mott) should "have a proportion of the good land upon the said river"--obviously a section of low land or meadow, described by the name of a place thereon called _Maskeék_ (Zeisb.), meaning "Swamp, bog"; _Maskeht_ (Eliot), "Grass." The radical is _ask,_ "green, raw, immature." The suffix _-eghs_ represents an intensive form of the guttural formative, which the German missionaries softened to _-ech_ and _-ck,_ and the English to _-sh,_ and is frequently met in _X._ Heckewelder wrote that the original sound was that of the Greek X, hence Maskex and x in Coxsackie. _Maschabeneer,_ the name given by Mott, is not satisfactorily translatable.