 This land is now Cliffwood and Cliffwood Beach in Aberdeen Township.It may originate from the Southern Unami "Matawonge", "bad riverbank" or "bad hill", a possible reference to bluffs along Raritan Bay which were subject to erosion and collapse prior to the construction of a seawall in the 1970s.Another possible source is "Matawan", Northern Unami for "bad fog", which may have referred to fog generated on Raritan Bay.