Kitchiwan, modern form; _Kitchawanc,_ treaty of 1643; _Kichtawanghs,_ treaty of 1645; _Kitchiwan,_ deed of 1645; _Kitchawan,_ treaty of 1664; the name of a stream in Westchester County from which extended to an Indian clan, "Is," writes Dr. Albert S. Gatschet of the Bureau of Ethnology, "an equivalent of _Wabenaki-ke'dshwan, -kidshuan,_ suffixed verbal stem, meaning 'Running Swiftly,' 'Rushing water,' or current, whether over rapids or not. _Sas-katchéwan,_ Canada, 'The roiley, rushing stream'; _assisku,_ 'Mud, dirt.' (Cree.) The prefix _ki_ or _ke,_ is nothing else than an abbreviation of _kitchi,_ 'great,' 'large,' and here 'strong.' Examples are frequent as -kitchuan, -kitchawan, Mass.; kesi-itsooaⁿn or taⁿn, Abn., Kussi-tchuan, Mass., 'It swift flows.' The prefix is usually applied to streams which rise in the highlands and flow down rapidly descending slopes." The final _k_ in some of the early forms, indicates pronunciation with the guttural aspirate, as met in _wank_ and wangh in other local names. [FN] The final _s_ is a foreign plural usually employed to express "people," or tribe. The stream is now known as the _Croten_ from _Cnoten,_ the name of a resident sachem, which by exchange of _n_ and _r,_ becomes _Croten,_ an equivalent, wrote Dr. Schoolcraft of _Noten,_ Chip., "The wind." "Bounded on the south by Scroton's River" (deed of 1703); "Called by the Indians Kightawank, and by the English Knotrus River." (Col. N. Y, Land Papers, 79.) * * * * * [FN] Dr. Trumbull wrote in the Natick (Mass.) dialect, "_Kussitchuan, -uwan,_ impersonal verb, 'It flows in a rapid stream,' a current; it continues flowing; as a noun, 'a rapid stream.'" In Cree, _Kussehtanne,_ "Flowing as a stream" In Delaware, _-tanne_ has its equivalent in _-hanne._ "The impersonal verb termination _-awan, -uan,_ etc., is sometimes written with the participial and subjunctive _k_" (_ka_ or _gh._) (Gerard.) The _k_ or _gh_ appears in some forms of Kitchawan. (See Waronawanka.) Titicus, given as the name of a branch of the Croton flowing from Connecticut, is of record Mutighticos and Matightekonks, translated by Dr. Trumbull from _Mat'uhtugh-ohke,_ "Place without wood," from which extended to the stream. (See Mattituck and Sackonck.) Navish is claimed as the name of Teller's (now Croton) Point, on a reading of the Indian deed of 1683: "All that parcel, neck or point of land, with the meadow ground or valley adjoining, situate, lying and being on the east side of the river over against Verdrietig's Hooke, commonly called and known by the name of Slauper's Haven and by the Indians Navish, the meadow being called by the Indians Senasqua." Clearly, Navish refers to Verdrietig Hook, on the west side of the river, where it is of record. It is an equivalent of _Newás_ (Len.), "promontory." (See Nyack-on-the-Hudson.)