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Gan-a-ta-ra-go-in, Big lake. Indian Point, in Lisbon.
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O-sa-ken-ta-ke, Grass lake, accurately represents the present name, and in it the name of Kentucky will be observed.
Kat-sen-e-kwar, Lake covered with yellow lilies. Yellow lake. Tsi-ia-ko-ten-nit-ser-ront-ti-et-ha, Where the canoe must be pushed up stream with poles. Gallop rapid.
Tsi-hon-wi-net-ha, Where the canoe is towed with a rope. Isle au Rapid, opposite Waddington.
Kan-a-ta-ra-ken, Wet village, Waddington.
O-was-ne, Feather island. Sheik's island.
Ti-o hi-on-ho-ken, Place where the river divides. Brasher's Falls.
Kan-a-swa-stak-e-ras, Where the mud smells bad. Massena Springs. Indians seem to have been much impressed with the bad odor of mineral springs of all kinds.
Kan-a-ta-se-ke, New village. Norfolk. The same as the . early name of Geneva.
Te-wa-ten-e-ta-ren-ies, Place where the gravel settles under the feet in dragging up a canoe. Potsdam.
Mas-sa-we-pie lake.
Point aux Iroquois, in Waddington. Charlevoix says that " The name of Iroquois is purely French, and has been formed from the term hiro, 'I have spoken,' a word by which these In- dians close all their speeches, and koue, which, when long drawn out, is a cry of sorrow, and when briefly uttered is an exclama- tion of joy." This really makes it an Indian word compounded by the French, as Ha-wen-ne-yu was formed by them as a name for the Great Spirit. Horatio Hale, however, properly objects that they had this name when Champlain came; and it appears a little later on maps as Irocoisia. He would derive it from Gar- okwa, a pipe, or else from the indeterminate verb Ierokwa, to smoke. The conjecture is ingenious. He suggests, also, less probably, the word Bear, which is ohkwari in Mohawk, okwai
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in Cayuga. On the Dutch map of 1616 Lake Champlain is in. scribed "Hof Meer Vand Irocoisen."
Ni-kent-si-a-ke has also been applied to Grass river, and in- terpreted Full of large fishes.
SARATOGA COUNTY.
The meaning of Saratoga is now purely conjectural, and the conjectures are wild enough. One is Hillside springs ; another Swift water, applied to the settlement near Schuylerville : an. other is Sah-rak-ka for Side hill; but there seems no foundation for any of these. Sar-a-ta-ke, or Sar-a-to-ga, Where the tracks of heels may be seen, from impressions in the rocks, may be better, for an early Iroquois word for heel was E-ra ta-ge. Among other names the place was called Sar-ach ta-gue in 1687: and Schur-o-tac-qua, an early name for a musical pipe, may have some relation to the meaning. The French mentioned it as Sarastau in 1747, and it always varied much in form. Mr. W. 1. Stone, in his "Reminiscences of Saratoga." derives it from Saragh, swift water, and aga, a place or people. He makes it equivalent to Kayaderoga and Saraghoga, and illustrates his de- finition by calling Sacondaga, Place of roaring water ; Ticonder. oga, Place where the lake shuts itself in ; and Niagara, Place of falling waters. These definitions do not agree with the best authorities. Tonawadeh or Kanawaga is the proper term for swift water, and I do not recall the word he gives.
Twek-to-non-do hill was at an angle of the Kayaderosseras Patent.
Nach-te-nack, is applied to Waterford and the mouth of the Mohawk.
Fee-go-wese and Ka-ya-wese creeks.
Can-is-ta-qua-ha, interpreted for me as People of pounded corn. Half Moon.
Chic o-pee, A large spring. Saratoga Springs.
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Chou-en-da-ho-wa, or She-non-de-ho-wa, A great plain. Clif- ton Park. Shan-and-hot is another form.
Os-sar-a-gas, or Wood creek, was mentioned as Os-sar-a-gue, a fishing place between Glen's Falls and the Mohawk river in 1642. The meaning given me is Place of a knife.
Sco-wa-rock-a was the north part of Maxon hill in Greenfield.
Ka-ya-de-ros-se-ras creek flows into Saratoga lake, but the name covers a wide territory.
A-dri-u-cha was a name at Crane's village.
SCHENECTADY COUNTY.
Schenectady is the proper name for Albany, meaning Beyond the pine plains, but it is appropriate here in coming from the east. Several names follow which have been assigned to Schen- ectady, all of which I consider unfounded except the last. Bruyas defined Skannatati as The other side, and One side of a village, considered merely as a noun.
On-o-a-la-gone-na, In the head, has been applied to Schenec- tady. This was defined for me as Big head, but is found else- where.
O-ron-nygh-wur-rie-gugh-re is another name, perhaps like the next.
Con-nugh-ha-rie-gugh.ha-rie, A great multitude collected to- gether, was the ancient Mohawk capital on this spot, according to Macauley. There seems no foundation for this, and the name suggests Canajoharie. Pearson gives the same story, slightly altering the name and meaning to Con-no-cho-rie-gu-ha-rie, Driftwood, which is the meaning of Schoharie. The Mohawks probably never had a town here, and I cannot imagine how the story originated. Oh-no-wal-a-gan-tle is said, by Macauley, to have been a considerable Mohawk town at Schenectady when the Dutch bought lands there between 1616 and 1620, but this happened many years later. As far as known there were no villages east of Schoharie creek.
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Scho-no-we, Great flat, was the name of Schenectady when sold to Corlaer, in 1661.
Tou-a-reu-ne, a name given to the neighboring hills.
Wach-keer-ho-ha, the fourth flat near Schenectady.
Nis-ka-yu-na, Extensive corn flats. A. Cusick called it Corn people, and it is said to be a corruption of Nistigioune, or Con- istigione.
Te-quat-se-ra is Verf kill, translated for me as Wooden spoon.
SCHOHARIE COUNTY.
Scho-har-ie, Driftwood. There are many early forms of this.
Ken-han-a-gara, given me as There lies the river, the traveler having arrived at the Mohawk. Another name of the same creek, at its mouth.
On-con-ge-na, Mountain of snakes, is near Middleburgh.
On-is-ta-gra-wa, Corn mountain, is near the same place.
To-wok-now-ra is now Spring hill.
Mo-he-gon-ter, or a Falling off, is part of Mohegan hill.
Ots-ga-ra-gu, Hemp hill, is a name for Coble's Kill.
As-ca-le-ge, defined for me as Black cloth, is the same place. Gog-ny-ta-nee, a hill in Seward.
O-ne-en-ta-dashe, Round the hill. Another hill in the same town.
O-wa-ere-sou-ere, a hill in Carlisle.
Ka-righ-on-don-tee, defined for me as A line of trees, being a chief's name given to a recent castle in Vrooman's Land.
O-ne-ya-gine, A stone. Stone creek.
Sa-ga-wan-nah, a mountain in this county.
On-its-tah-ra-ga-ra-we, or On-nits-teg-raw, was a name given to Vrooman's Nose in 1711, much like one already mentioned. Kan-jea-ra-go-re, or Can-jea-rag-ra, is a hill south of the last. Kah-owtt-na-re. a hill west of Schoharie creek in 1734. Ga-la-ra-ga. another hill similarly situated.
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Chaw-tick-og-nack, a creek between the Catskills and the Schoharie, on an early map.
SCHUYLER COUNTY.
Ca-yu-ta lake and creek. Che-o-quock. Catharine's town, near Havana. This was burned in 1779. Con-daw-haw. Appletown in Hector, also destroyed in 1779.
SENECA COUNTY.
Sin-ne-ke, or Sen-e-ka, is an Algonquin name for the nation, and appears on the Dutch maps of 1614 and 1616 as Sennecas. Some have identified this with the Sickenanes, which is clearly erroneous, as this was a different name of a New England tribe. Gen. J. S. Clark and Hon. George S. Conover derive it from the Algonquin word stune, to eat; as in We-sin-ne, we eat. The reference then might be figurative, or to their character as men- eaters. Mr. Horatio Hale says that Sinako means stone snakes in the Delaware, but that Mr. Squier was told that, in this con- nection, it meant " Mountain snakes." As the Delawares called all their enemies snakes, they simply added this term to the proper name of the Senecas. The meaning of stone snakes, however, would not be that they were petrified, but that they in- habited rocks or hills. The snake stories of the Senecas may be connected with this translation.
Ca-no-ga is said to mean Sweet water by some, while others interpret it as Oil on the water. It is the reputed birth place of Red Jacket, and is marked by a monument.
Sha-se-ounse, Rolling water. Seneca Falls.
Skoi-yase, Place of Whortleberries, according to Morgan. Waterloo. The name, however, appears, in 1779, with the meaning of Long falls, which is accepted. It is also defined Rapids in the river.
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Skan-na-yu-ten-a-te, a village of 1779, on the west shore of Cayuga lake, near Canoga. A. Cusick rendered this, On the 'other side of the lake, most of the Cayuga towns being on the east side.
Ken-dai-a, a village of the same date, in Romulus.
Swah-ya-wa-na was another near the last, which was defined for me as Place of large fruit.
Oe-yen-de-hit, on the west side of Cayuga lake, on Pouchot's map. The meaning given me was There are favorable signs.
Nu-qui-age, a Cayuga village near Seneca lake, mentioned by Zeisberger.
STEUBEN COUNTY.
Tuscarora creek means Shirt wearers, the Tuscaroras having come from the south, and perhaps needing more clothing than others.
Te-can-as-e-te-o, Board on the water. Canisteo river.
Te-car-nase-te-o-ah, A board sign. Painted Post. The well known painted post was at the confluence of Tioga and Conhoc- ton rivers, and marked the grave of a great chief, who is said to have died of his wounds in the Revolutionary war. On it were painted various rude devices, and it remained for many years after the white settlement. Graves were often marked in this way. In the account of the Iroquois in 1666, it is said of the dead, "When it is a man they paint red calumets, calumets of peace on the tomb; sometimes they plant a stake on which they paint how often he has been in battle : how many prisoners he has taken; the post ordinarily is only four or five feet high, and much embellished." The name of Canisteo, however, was well known before the Revolution.
Con-hoc-ton river, Trees in the water. Morgan makes this Ga-ha-to, Log in the water, and apphes it to this and the Che- mung river.
Michigan creek, in Thurston, is an introduced name.
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Ke-u-ka, a landing on Crooked lake, which is also now quite commonly known by the same name,
Ka-no na, defined for me as On my skin. Five Mile creek. Co-non gue is a name for the Chemung river, the latter name being rendered Big horn, or Horn in the water,
As-sin-nis-sink was a Monsey town of 1750, at or near Painted Post. On Guy Johnson's map of 1771, it is given as Sin Sink. It seems an error to derive it from John Sing Sing, a friendly Indian.
Ga-wan-is-que, Briery. A creek entering the Chemung at Painted Post.
Do-na-ta-gwen-da, or Ta-nigh-na-quan da, Opening in an opene ing. Bath, This is a good description,
Cataw-ba, a southern name introduced.
On Pouchot's map are the villages of Kay-gen, Kna-e-to and Kan-es-ti-o ; and also the Kay-gen river.
SUFFOLK COUNTY.
Pat chogue, from Pochough Indians, It is doubtfully said to mean Where they gamble and dance.
Co-met-i-co is now Old Fiekl Point.
Mi-nas-se-roke is Little Neck. Po-quott is now Dyer's Neck. Cum-se-wogue. Cedar hill cemetery. So-was-sett is now Port Jefferson.
Wo-po-wag, an early name of Stony Brook.
No-no-wau-tuck is now Mount Sinai.
Man-ow-tuss-quott. Blue Point.
Se-tau-ket is Sa-ta-tuck on a map of 1825 ; named from Seca- togue Indians.
Mas-tic was formerly occupied by the Poospatuck Indians. Parts of this large tract are Sabonock, Necommack, Coosputus, Paterquos, Uncohoug and Mattemoy.
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Co-ram is a hamlet named from an Indian chief.
Wamp-mis-sic is an Indian name for a neighboring swamp.
Quaw-no-ti-wock, Great pond.
Konk-hong-a-nok, or Kon-go-nock. Fort pond, near Sag Harbor Mon-cho-nock, or Ma-shon-go-muc. Gardiner's island.
Mon-tauk Point is so called from the Montauk Indians. Is- land country, or perhaps better, Fort country.
Nach-a-qua-tuck. Cold Spring.
Osh-ma-mo-mock, north-west of Greenport.
Sun-quams, an early name of Melville.
Pen-at-a-quit. A small stream.
Con-et-quot river, sometimes written Connecticut.
Sam-pa-wam. Thompson's creek.
Pan-qua-cum-suck. Wading river.
Nom-mo-nock hills. Nominick, near Neapeague.
Mi-a-mog, or Mi-an-rogue. Jamesport.
Man-hon-sack-a-ha-quash-u-wor-nook, An island sheltered by islands. Shelter island.
Ga-wa-na-se-geh, A long island. Long Island, so called by the Five Nations.
Mat-o-wacks, Periwinkle, applied to the same in 1682. Se-con-tagh. Foreland of Long Island.
O-jik-ha-da-ge-ga, Salt water. The ocean. In general. how- ever, the Iroquois term for this was Caniataregowa, Big lake.
Kit-o-a-bo-neck, or Ketch-a-bo-neck.
A-que-bague, or Oc-ca-pogue. A creek.
Ag-wam. Place abounding in fish. Southampton.
Hop-pogue, or Haup-paugs is said to mean Sweet waters. Man-has-set comes from a nation living on Shelter island. Shin-ne-cock bay and hills.
Yen-ne-cock, a part of Southold, east of Cutchogue.
Cut-chogue may be from the Cor-chogue Indians, who lived east of Wading river. The principal place.
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Po-qua-tuck is now Orient. This was bought in 1641. Mat-ti-tuck, Place without wood.
Lake Ron-kon-ko-ma, Sand pond, from the shores.
Ac-ca-po-nack from Occapand'k, a kind of ground nut: Sa-ga- pu-n'ak, another kind ; Se-pu-n'ak bluffs, another kind still, at Shinnecock: Ket-che-pu-n'ak, the largest kind of all, was ap- plied to Westhampton.
I have not undertaken the difficult work of defining names in the shore dialects, but have taken those that came in my way. Mr. W. W. Tooker, of Sag Harbor, has done some good work of this kind.
Other names are Ne-a-peague, Am-a-gan-sett, Mi-an-ti-cutt. Cor-cha-ki, Noy-ack, Quan-tue, Nis-se-quague, Me-cox, Spe-onk Quogue, Pon-quogue, Shag-wan-go, Sagg, and Com-mack or Co-mack.
SULLIVAN COUNTY.
Mon-gaup river is Man-gam-ping or Ming-wing, on some early maps. It has been defined Several streams, in allusion to its three branches.
Cal-li coon river, Turkey. This is Kolli Koen on a map of 1825. Although generally considered an Indian name, with the above meaning. it has been claimed as a derivative from two Dutch words, with some show of reason. I suppose it, however, to have come from the Delaware word Gulukochsoon, a turkey.
Co-chec-ton has been translated Low grounds, and also Fin- ished small harbor, the former being preferable. The Cashigton Indians formerly lived on the Delaware river, near this place.
Ma-ma-ka ting is said to have had its name from an Indian chief, and has been interpreted Dividing the waters. The In- dian village is called Mame Cotink on the map of 1779.
Ne-ver-sink has been interpreted Mad river, and also Water between highlands. as well as Fishing place. Some have thought
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the name merely an English allusion to the waters of the stream. but it is clearly aboriginal. It is also Mahackamack on the map of 1779.
Ki-am-e-sha is now Pleasant pond.
Sha-wan-gunk, from Shongum, white, making the name of the mountains, White stones.
Po-ca-toc-ton, River almost spent.
Kon-ne-on-ga, White lake, in Bethel, so called from its white sands.
Chough-ka-wa-ka-no-e, a small creek mentioned in 1665.
Al-as-kay e-ring is the continuation of the Shawangunk mountains southward.
Ba-sha kill. Basha was an oldl squaw whose husband killed a deer, and left her to bring it home. She fastened it securely on her back, but in crossing the stream fell under her burder, and being unable to disengage herself was drowned.
Other names are Me-ton-gues, Ho-mo-wack, Lack-a-wack. and Wil-low-e-mock, the latter in Rockland township.
TIOGA COUNTY.
Cat-a-tunk creek, or Ti-a-tach-schi-unge.
O-we-go has been translated Swift water, and also given as Ah-wa-ga, Where the valley widens. N. P. Willis mentions Ca- ne-wa-na as a village between his home at Glenmary and Owego. The name has disappeared. There are several early forms of the name of Owego. The village was burned in 1779, to cel- ebrate the union of Clinton's and Sullivan's armies.
Ti-o-ga, At the forks.
Chemung and Susquehanna have been defined before.
Manck-at-a-wang-um, or Red bank, was opposite the site of Barton in 1779.
Ga-now-tach-ge-rage. interpreted for me as There lies the vil- lage. West creek, 1745.
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Gen. J. S. Clark thinks Spanish Hill, at Waverly, the ancient Car-ant-ou-an, a village of the Andastes.
Other names are Nan-ti-coke and Ap-a-la-chin or Ap-pa-la-con.
TOMPKINS COUNTY.
Ca-yu-ga lake and inlet from the nation of that name, who ad- vanced their villages to the Susquehanna after the conquest of the Andastes.
Ne-o-dak-he.at. Head of the lake. Ithaca.
Taug-han-ick, or Taug-han-nock falls, a name from Columbia county.
To-ti-e-ron-no, interpreted for me as Where guns were made, but it is the name of a nation also. The Iroquois placed a southern nation, called Te-de-righ-roo-nas, at the head of the lake in 1747
Co-re-or-go-nel was a village near Ithaca in 1779.
Ga-nont-a cha-rage, was a stream between Ithaca and Owego, in 1745. elsewhere defined.
Some have thought that Poney Hollow came from the name of the Saponeys, who may have had a village there.
ULSTER COUNTY.
E-so-pus, once Sopus, comes from See-pu, a Delaware term for river. It has been called See-pus, Sopers, and So-pus, but the present name prevailed at an early day. The Esopus nation was of Algonquin stock. as all the river Indians were.
At- kar kar-ton, or At-kan-kar-ten, was an early name of Esopus creek and Kingston. and is said to mean Smooth water.
Kuy-kuyt mountain, or Lookout mountain.
Sho kan, a village in Olive.
Mom-bac-cus, Indian name of the town of Rochester.
Shan-da-ken, Rapid water.
Sha-wan-gunk .. White rocks. but some have thought it came
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from Showan or Shawnee, meaning south, and Gunk, mountain, thus making it South mountain.
Wa-war-sing is said to mean, Blackbird's nest. Wa-wa-sink in 1779.
O-nan-gwack creek, east of Rondout creek.
Ker-honk-son, or Ka-hank-sen, 1665.
Ponck-hock-ie, a place near Kingston.
Wilt-meet, an Indian fort supposed to have 'been in Marble- town.
Ka-ha-kas-nik, a stream north of Rondout creek.
Ma-go-was-in-ginck, another north of the last.
Ma-ha-ke-negh-tuc, Continually overflowing water. Hudson's name for Hudson's river, as is said, but it is better Mo-hi-can-it- tuck, River of the Mohicans.
Other names are Ky-ser-ike, Nap-a-nock, Ho-mo-wack, Lack- a-wack, Min-ne-was-ka, Ma-chack-a-mock, Met-ta-ca-honts, and Mo-honk.
WARREN COUNTY.
Te-o-ho-ken, equivalent to Tioga, west branch of the Hudson, and alluding to the forks,
At-a-te-ka, east branch of the same river.
Hor-i-con seems an early misprint, quite doubtfully said to mean Silver water, and sometimes erroneously applied to Lake George. Cooper is responsible for this, his " Last of the Mohi- cans" being a tale of the vicinity. Some old maps had Horicon for Hir-o-coi.
At-al-a-poo-sa, Sliding place. Roger's Slide, but also applied to Tongue mountain.
Ka-yan-do-ros-sa, said to be the Indian name of Glens Falls. A. Cusick translated it Long deep hole, which might apply to the ravine, or the cave below the bridge. Pan-gas-ko-link is also given as a name for this place. Che-pon-tuc, Hard climbing, is another.
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Can-i-a-de-ros-se-ras, the country north of Schenectady, per- haps having a reference to a lake. This or the preceding may give light to the meaning of Kayaderosseras, the patent of which so long caused trouble.
Bou-to-keese. Falls at Luzerne.
Te-kagh-we-an-ga-ra-negh-ton. A mountain west of Lake George, in 1755.
Kah-che-bon-cook. Jessup's falls.
Moos-pot-ten-wa-cha, Thunder's nest. Crane mountain.
Waw-kwa-onk. Caldwell.
Gan-a-ous-ke, Where you get sprinkled, as interpreted for me. Northwest bay in Lake George.
Ti-o-sa-ron-da, Meeting of waters, at Luzerne.
Oregon is an introduced name.
Se-non-ge-wah, Great upturned pot, a mountain four miles from Luzerne.
O-i-o-gue, Beautiful river. The Hudson in the narrative of Father Jogues, who called its upper waters by this name in 1645. Bruyas, however, defined Ohioge, At the river, which may be preferable.
Can-i-a-de-ri oit, Tail of the lake. Lake George, but some- times better applied to the south end of Lake Champlain, where it has a striking significance. I think this the proper application. Father Jogues arrived at Lake George in 1645, an incident de- scribed in the relation of the following year. "They arrived on the eve of Corpus Christi, at the foot of the lake which connects with the great lake Champlain; the Ircquois call it Andiatarocte, which signifies, There where the lake is shut in. The Fathers named it lake St. Sacrement," from the day, referring to the Eu- charist, and not to baptism as some have supposed. Part of the name only, first given, is identical with that mentioned by Jogues.
.Lake Champlain was often called Lake of the Iroquois by
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both the Dutch and French, but it had many names.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
An-di-a-ta-rac-te, Where the lake is shut in. An early name of Lake George before mentioned, Caniadare meaning lake.
On-ja-da-rac-te was mentioned as the head of Lake Champlain in 1688, and a place where the English might build a fort, ap- parently at Ticonderoga. It is the same as the preceding.
O-je-en-rud-de. where the French proposed building a fort in 1701, seems the same name much modified.
" R. Tyconderoge or tale of the lake," appears on the map of New York grants. The lake seems to have had many tails. The place was called Chi-nan-de-roga in 1691, and Di-on-da-ro- ga in 1755.
Cos-sa-yu-na, Lake at our pines. A lake in Argyle.
Wam-pa-chook-glen-o-suck. Whitehall.
Wam-pe-cock creek seems derived from the last.
Kah-cho-quah-na. Place where they dip fish. Whitehall. Lake Rod-si-o-Ca-ny-a-ta-re. Lake Champlain : the last word meaning lake, and the first being the name of a Mohawk chief who was drowned there.
Ta-kun-de-wi-de. Harris' bay, on Lake George.
Ty-o-shoke, a name for part of Cambridge.
Tom-he-nack, a creek in the same town.
Di-on-on-da-ho-wa falls, interpreted for me as She opens the door for them.
Met-to-wee river is the Pawlet.
An-a-quas-sa-cook is the name of a patent granted in 1782.
Pom-pan-uck is said to have been the original form of Pump- kin Hook, and to have been so called from Connecticut Indians who settled there.
Po-dunk is a name introduced from New England.
Kin-gi-a-quah-to-nee was the portage between Fort Edward and Wood creeks.
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On-da-wa means Coming again, according to my informant. White creek.
On-de-ri-gue-gon is a name for the drowned lands of this county.
Tigh-til-li-gagh-ti-kook is the south branch of Batten kill.
Wah-co-loos-en-cooch-a-le-ra. Fort Edward. Fis-quid is a name for the same place on an old powder horn.
WAYNE COUNTY.
As-sor-o-dus has been translated Silver water, but there seems no reason for this. It is Aserotus on a map of 1771, but Sodus bay has other names. On Pouchot's map it is " Baye des Goy- ogoins," or Cayugas, and was commonly known by this title. In 1759 it was termed Osenodus. On a map of 1662 it is Ganaatio which would be Beautiful water. A map of 1688 calls it Char- aton. According to Morgan the name of Sodus Bay creek was Tegahonesaota. Child in a baby frame. The first two syllables simply mean The place at, and Sodus may have come from the last three syllables. This is the simplest theory which occurs to me, but it may have come, in another form, from Asare, A knife. The Indians can now give no meaning to the word. The bay was the Cayuga landing place.
Gan-ar-gwa, A village suddenly sprung up. Palmyra and Mud creek.
Je-don-da-go, a place east of Jerondakat bay, at an early day.
Te-ger-hunk-se-rode, a hill belonging to the Cayugas in 1758, and east of Sodus bay. This may be Morgan's name for Sodus Bay creek above mentioned.
Squa-gon-na. Montezuma marshes. This may have come from the Cayuga, Naskwagaonta, Toad or frog : but more prob ably is an abbreviation of the Onondaga Skahhoosoonah. Yellow cat fish.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
The most of the names in this county will be found in Bol-
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ton's History of Westchester, and they are nearly all Mohegan words, several tribes of this nation having dwelt here.
Os-sin-sing, or Os-sin-ing: Stone upon stone, the name of a Mohegan tribe. It is written Sing Sing, with many other forms.
Sint Sink creek has the same meaning and also Sen-si-nick, or Stony place.
Ma-har-nes river. Me-ha-nas seems the same name.
Weec-quaes-guck. Place of a bark kettle, has many forms, of which Wes-sec-ca-now may be the most extreme, Weckquas- keck representing the medium. Dobb's Ferry.
Ma-cook-nack point.
Ki-wig-tig-nock, an elbow of Croton river, called also Ke-wigh- teg-nack. He-wegh-ti-quack is another form. It is west of Pine's bridge.
Am-a-walk, an abbreviated Indian name for the east part of Yorktown.
Ac-que-a ho-unck. Red cedar tree. Hutchinson's creek.
A-que-a-no-unck, for East Chester creek. seems the same.
Po-nin-goe, Indian name of Rye.
Ma-nur-sing, called Min-ne-wies, or L'ine island. by the In . dians. Another form is Mi-nu-sing, an island.
Mus-coot river. Mus-coo-ta mountain is also near Croton Is- land.
Sach-wra-hung. A brook near West Farms.
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