[ [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.
[ [68] Heckewelder, in his unpublished MSS, asserts that both these names mean "Opossum". It is true that the name of this animal in Lenape is woapink, in the New Jersey dialect opiing, and in the Nanticoke of Smith oposon, but all these are derived from the root wab, which originally meant "white," and was applied to the East as the place of the dawn and the light. The reference is to the light gray, or whitish, color of the animal's hair. Compare the Cree, wapiskowes, cendré, il a le poil blafard Lacombe, Dictionnaire de la Langue des Cris s v
[ [69] On Indian Names, p. 375, in Trans American Philosophical Society, Vol. III, n. ser