Or: "I am a true man of our people." _Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc._, Vol. IV, N. Ser., p. 381. [54] Mr. Eager, in his _History of Orange County_, quotes the old surveyor, Nicolas Scull (1730), in favor of translating _minisink_ "the water is gone," and Ruttenber, in his _History of the Native Tribes of the Hudson River_, supposes that it is derived from _menatey_, an island. Neither of these commends itself to modern Delawares. [55] See _Penna. Archives_, Vol. I, pp. 540-1. [56] Proud, _History of Penna_, Vol. II, p. 297, S Smith, _Hist of New Jersey_, p. 456; Henry, _Dict. of the Delaware Lang._, MS., p. 539. [57] Delaware Vocabulary in Whipple, Ewbank & Turner's _Report_, 1855. The German form is _tsickenum_. [58] _A Brief Relation of the Voyage of Captayne Thomas Yong_, in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls._, 4th series, Vol. IX, p. 119. [59] See the original Warrant of Survey and Minutes relating thereto, in Dr. George Smith's _History of Delaware County, Pa._, pp. 209, 210 (Phila., 1862). The derivation is uncertain. Captain John Smith gives _mahcawq_ for pumpkin, and this appears to be the word in the native name of Chester Creek, _Macopanackhan_, which is also seen in _Marcus_ Hook. (See Smith's _Hist. Del. Co._, pp. 145, 381.) I am inclined to identify the _Macocks_ with the _M'okahoka_ as "the people of the pumpkin place," or where those vegetables were cultivated. [60] The Shawnee word is the same, _pellewaa_, whence their name for the Ohio River, _Pellewaa seepee_, Turkey River. (Rev. David Jones, _Journal of Two Visits Made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio in 1772 and 1773_, p. 20.) From this is derived the shortened form _Plaen_, seen in _Playwickey_, or _Planwikit_, the town of those of the Turkey Tribe, in Berks county, Pa. (Heckewelder, _Indian Names_, p, 355.) [61] Heckewelder, _Hist. Indian Nations_, pp. 253-4. [62] Lewis H. Morgan, _Ancient Society_, pp. 171-2. [63] _Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania_, July 6th, 1694. [64] Master Evelin's Letter is printed in Smith's _History of New Jersey_, 2d ed. Some doubt has been cast on his letter, because of its connection with the mythical "New Albion," but his personality and presence on the river have been vindicated. See _The American Historical Magazine_, Vol. I, 2d series, pp. 75, 76. [65] _New Jersey Archives_, Vol. I, p. 183. [66] Ibid, Vol. I, p. 73. [67] Ruttenber, _Hist. of the Indian Tribes of Hudson River_, s. v.