Koghkehaeje, Kachhachinge, Coghsacky, now Coxsackie, a very early place name where it is still retained, was translated by Dr. Schoolcraft from _Kuxakee_ (Chip.), "The place of the cut banks," and by Dr. O'Callaghan, "A corruption of Algonquin _Kaakaki,_ from _Kaak,_ 'goose,' and _-aki,_ 'place.'" In his translation of the Journal of Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, in which the name is written _Koch-ackie_ (German notation; Dutch, _Kok,_ "cook"), the late Hon. Henry C. Murphy wrote: "The true orthography is probably _Koek's-rackie_ (the Cook's Little Reach), to distinguish it from the Koek's Reach below the Highlands, near New York." Unfortunately there is no evidence that there was a reach called the Cook's north of the Highlands, while it is certain that the name is Algonquian. Dankers and Sluyter gave no description of the place in 1679-80, but their notice of it indicates that it was familiar at that date. In 1718 it was given as the name of a bound-mark of a tract described as "having on the east the land called Vlackte and Coxsackie." (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 124.) _Vlackte_ (Vlakte) is Dutch for "Plain or flat," and no doubt described the Great Nutten Hoek Flat which lies fronting Coxsackie Landing, and Coxackie described the clay bluff which skirts the river rising about one hundred feet. The bluff and flat bounded the tract on the east. From the locative the name may be translated from Mass. _Koghksuhk-ohke,_ meaning "High land." The guttural _ghks_ had the sound of Greek x, hence _Kox_ or _Cox._ Stighcook, a tract of land so called, now in Greene County, granted to Casparus Brunk and others in 1743, is located in patent as lying "to the westward of Koghsacky." In Indian deed to Edward Collins, in 1734, the description reads, "Westerly by the high woods known and called by the Indian name Sticktakook." Apparently from Mass. _Mishuntugkook,_ "At a place of much wood." The district seems to have been famed for nut trees. It is noted on Van der Donck's map "Noten Hoeck," from which it was extended to Great Nutten Hook Island and Little Nutten Hook Island, on which there were nut trees. (See Wieskottine, Kiskatom, etc.) Siesk-assin, a boundmark of the Coeymans Patent, is described as a point on the west side of the Hudson, "opposite the middle of the island called _Sapanakock_ and by the Dutch called Barrent's Island." The suffix _-assin,_ probably stands for _Assin,_ "Stone," but the prefix is unintelligible. _Sapanak-ock_ means, "Place of wild potatoes," or bulbous roots. (See Passapenoc.) Barrent's is from Barrent Coeymans, the founder of the village of Coeymans. The earlier Dutch name was Beerin Island, or "She-bear's Island," usually read Bear's Island.