[FN-1] Basha's Kill, so called from a place called Basha's land, which see.
[FN-2] _Kamik,_ Del., _Komuk,_ Mass., in varying orthographies, means "Place" in the sense of a limited enclosed, or occupied space; "Generally," wrote Dr. Trumbull, "An enclosure, natural or artificial, such as a house or other building, a village, or planted field, a thicket or place surrounded by trees"; briefly, a place having definite boundaries. _Maghkaghk_ is an intense expression of quality--perfection.
Nepeneck, a boundmark so called in the Swartwout-Coddebeck Patent of 1697--Napenock, Napenack, Napenough, later forms--given as the name of the western or southwestern bound of the Maghaghkamick tract, is described: "Beginning at the western bounds of the lands called Nepeneck." The place is presumed to have been at or near Carpenter's Point, on the Delaware, which at times is overflowed by water. It disappears here after 1697, but reappears in a similar situation some twenty miles north at the junction of the Sandberg and Rondout kills. It is probably a generic as in _Nepeak,_ L. I., meaning, "Water land," or land overflowed by water. "_Nepenit_ 'In a place of water.'" (Trumbull.) Carpenter's Point or ancient Nepeneck, is the site of the famous Tri-States Rock, the boundmark of three states.
[Illustration: On The Delaware, Tri-States Rock Port Jervis, N.Y.]
Assawaghkemek, the name entered as that of the northeast boundmark of the Swartwout-Coddebeck Patent, and described therein, "To a small run of water called Assawaghkemek . . . and so along the same and the lands of Mansjoor, the Indian," is known by settlement, to have been _at_ and _below_ the junction of Basha's Kill and the Neversink, from which the inference seems to be well sustained that "the lands of Mansjoor, the Indian" were the lands or valley of Basha's Kill, which the name describes as an enclosed or occupied place "beyond," or "on the other side" of the small run of water. The prefix _Assaw,_ otherwise written _Accaw, Agaw,_ etc., means "Beyond," "On the other side." The termination _agh,_ or _aug,_ indicates that the name is formed as a verb. _Kemek_ (Kamik) means an enclosed, or occupied place, as already stated. The translation in "History of Orange County," from _Waseleu,_ "Light, bright, foaming," is erroneous, as is also the application of the name to Fall Brook, near the modern village of Huguenot. In no case was the name that of a stream, except by extension to it.