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</font>Saponickan</b> and <b style="">Sapohanican</b> are the earliest forms of a name which appears later Sappokanican, Sappokanikke, Saponican, Shaw-backanica, Taponkanico, etc. “ A piece of land bounded on the north by the strand road, called Saponickan”
(1629); “Tobacco plantation near Sapohanican” (1639); “Plantation situate against the Reed Valley beyond Sappokanican” (1640).
<span style=""> </span>Wouter van Twiller purchased the tract, in 1629, for the use of the Dutch government and established thereon a tobacco plantation, with buildings enclosed in palisade, which subsequently became known as “the little village of Sapokanican---
Sappokanican--- Van der Donck--- and later (1721) as Greenwich Village. It occupied very nearly the site of the present Gansevort market. The “Strand road” is now Greenwich Street. It was primarily, an Indian path along the shore of the river north, with branches
to Harlem and other points, the main path continuing the trunk-path through Raritan Valley, but locally beginning at the ‘crossing-place’ or as the record reads, “Where the Indians cross [the Hudson] to bring their pelteries.” “South of Van Twiller's plantation
was a marsh much affected by wild fowl, and a bright, quick brook, called by the Dutch ‘Bestavar's Kil’, and by the English ‘Manetta Water.’”( Half-Moon Series.) Saponickan was in place here when Van Twiller made his purchase (1629), as the record shows, and
was adopted by him as the name of his settlement. To what feature it referred cannot be positively stated, but apparently to the Reed Valley or marsh. It has had several interpretations, but none that are satisfactory. The syllable pon may denote a bulbous
root which was found there. (See Passapenoc.) The same name is probably met in Saphorakam, or Saphonakan, given as the name of a tract described as “Marsh and canebrake,” lying near or on the shore of Gowanus Bay, Brooklyn. (See Kanonnewage, in connection
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<font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The above all seems to be about New York City. While it's true that the Tutelos and Saponis migrated to Pennsylvania and thence to NY s<font size="3">tate, they<font size="3"> went to northern NY state. There is<font size="3">
nothing in the histories to connect them with Manhattan Island. It's possible that somewhere in the local histories of northern NY there ma<font size="3">y be some trac<font size="3">e of the
<font size="3">Saponis, but none has been found so <font size="3">far.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">>“Four dayes Journey from your forte Southerward is a town called
<i style="">Ononahorne</i>, seated where the river <i style="">Choanock</i> divideth itself into three branches and falleth into the sea of
<i style="">Rawnocke</i> in thirty five degrees. If you make your principall and choise seate you shall doe most safely and richly because you are in the heart of Lands open to the south and two of the best rivers will supply you, besides you are neare to with
Copper mines of <i style="">Ritane</i> and may passe them by one branch of the river, and by another
<i style=""><span style="color:red">Peccareca- micke</span></i><span style="color:red">
</span>where you shall finde four of the Englishe alsoe, lost by Sir Walter Raweley, which escaped from the slaughter of Powhatan of Roanocke upon the first arivall of our Colony and live under the protection of a
<i style="">wiroano</i> call’d <span style="color:red">Sepanocan</span> enemy to Powhatan, by whose consent you shall never receive them, one of these were worth much laboar and if you finde them not, yet search into this contrey it is more probable than towardes
the North.” <span style=""><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style=""><font size="3">This passage is more interesting and may well mention the Saponis. That's about all I can say though.</font></span></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style=""><font size="3"><font size="3">Bob</font><br>
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