[FN-1] ". . . We have, therefore, gathered information from the Mahicanders, who thought we knew of it, that more than fifteen days ago some Esopus [Indians] had been at Keessienwey's Hoeck who wanted to come up [to Fort Orange], but had been prevented until this time, and in order to get at the truth of the matter, we have concluded to send for two or three sachems of the Katskil Indians, especially Macsachneminanau and Safpagood, also Keesienwey, to come hither." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 309.)
[FN-2] "May 24, 1660. To-day appeared [at Fort Orange] three Mahican chiefs, namely, Eskuvius, alias Aepjen (Little Ape), Aupaumut, and Keessienway, alias Teunis, who answered that they came in the name of the Esopus sachems to ask for peace."
Machawameck, the south boundmark of Kaniskek, was not the name of Barrent's Island, as stated in French's Gazetteer. It was the name of a noted fishing place, now known as Black Rock, in the south part of Athens. The prefix _Macha,_ is the equivalent of _Massa_ (Natick _Mogge_), meaning "Great," and _-ameck_ is an equivalent of _-ameek_ (_-amuk,_ Del.), "Fishing-place." As the root, _-am,_ means "To take by the mouth," the place would seem to have been noted for fish of the smaller sort. The Dutch called the place _Vlugt Hoek,_ "Flying corner," it is so entered in deed. Qr. "Flying," fishing with a hook in the form of a fly.
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._