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OSSUARY OSWEGO TEA 



[b. a. e. 



Jes. Rel. 1639, 88, 1858 (changed in errata to Ossos- 

 sane). Ossosandue.— Jes. Rel. 1637, 70, 1858. Osso- 

 sane. — Ibid., 131. Ossossandue. — Ibid., 70. Ossos- 

 sane. — Jes. Rel. 1636, 123, 1858. Ossossarie. — Jes. 

 Rel. 16-10, 63, 1858 (misprint), ftuevindoyan.— 

 M6moire of 1637 in Margry, DC-c, i, 4, 1875 

 (sig. 'at the base of the mountain.' — Hewitt). 

 Quieuindohain.— Sagard (1686), Can., ll, 422, 1866. 

 Quieuindohian. — Ibid., i,200, 1866. Sainct Gabriel. — 

 Ibid., note. Tequenonquiaye.— Champlain (1615), 

 CEuvres, IV, 28, 1870. Tequeunoikuaye. — Sagard 

 (1636), Can., l, 200, 1866. Tequeunonkiaye.— Sagard 

 misquoted in Champlain, CEuvres, iv, 28, note, 

 1870. 



Ossuary. See Mortuary customs. 



Osswehgadagaah ('hawk'). A clan of 

 the Seneca. 



Canonchahonronon. — French writer (1666) in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., IX, 47-48, 18.55. Os-sweh-ga-da-ga'- 

 ah. — Morgan, League Iroq., 80, 18.51. 



Ostimuri. A pueblo of the Nevorne, 

 with 57 inhabitants in 1730; apparently 

 situated in Sonora, Mexico, e. of Ion. 

 109° and n. of lat. 29. It seems to have 

 been a visita of and near the mission of 

 (Santa Rosalia) Onopa, q. v. 



S. Ildefonso Ostimuri.— Rivera (1730) quoted by 

 Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, 514, 1884_. 



Ostogeron. A former Iroquois village, 

 apparently under Oneida jurisdiction, 

 situated, according to the Srion de la 

 Tour map of 1781, above Tuskokogie, on 

 the E. bank of the e. branch of the Sus- 

 quehanna r. This is probably an error 

 for Chenango r. in N. Y. (j.-n. b. h.) 



Octageron. — Lattr#, Map, 1784. Ostogeron. — Es- 

 nauts and Kapilly, Map, 1777. 



Ostonwackin. A village occupied by 

 Delaware, Cayuga, Oneida, and other 

 Indians under Iroquois control on the w. 

 branch of the Susquehanna, at the mouth 

 of Loyalsock cr., at the site of the present 

 Montoursville, Lycoming CO., Pa. It was 

 at one time the home of the celebrated 

 Madam Montour, q. v. 



French Town. — Darlington, Christopher Gist's 

 Jour., 155, 1893. Ostanghaes.— Albany conf. (1722) 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., v, 675, 1855 (the inhabit- 

 ants). Ostonwackin.— Loskiel (1794) quoted by 

 Day, Penn., 525, 1843. Ots-on-wacken. — Darling- 

 ton, op. cit. Otstonwackin. — Loskiel, Hist. Miss. 

 United Breth., pt.2, 32, 1794. Otstuago.— Darling- 

 ton, op. cit. 



Ostrovki (Russian: 'little islands'). A 

 Kaniagmitit Eskimo village on Kachemak 

 bay, w. coast of Kenai penin., Alaska; 

 pop. 74 in 1880.— Petroff in 10th Census, 

 Alaska, 29, 1884. 



Ostyalakwa. A former pueblo of the 

 Jemez of New Mexico; definite location 

 unknown. Asserted to be distinct from 

 Astialakwa. 



Osht-yal-a. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 

 207, 1892. Ost'-yal-a-kwa.— Hodge, field notes, B. 

 A. E., 1895. 



Osuktalaya ( Osak-talaya, ' hickory 

 grove'). A former Choctaw town of 

 the Oklafalaya, or Western party, on 

 the headwaters of Chickasawhay r., in 

 Neshoba or Kemper co.. Miss. See Hal- 

 bert in Pub. Miss. Hist. Soc, vi, 427, 

 1902. 



OsunkMrMne, Pierre Paul. An Ab- 

 naki Indian of St Francis, near Pierre- 

 ville, Quebec, noted for his translations, 

 especially of religious works, into the 



Penobscot dialect of the Abnaki lan- 

 guage, published from 1830 to 1844. He 

 received a good education at Moore's 

 Charity School, Hanover, N. H., and 

 returned to his home as a Protestant 

 missionary. In some of his published 

 works (Pilling, Bibliog. Algonq. Lang., 

 539-40, 1891) his name appears as Wzok- 

 hilain, because it could not be more ex- 

 actly transliterated into the Abnaki 

 language. 



Oswegatchie ( 'at the very outlet' ). A 

 former village of Catholic Iroquois under 

 French influence, on the site of Ogdens- 

 burg, St Lawrence co., N. Y., at the mouth 

 of the Oswegatchie. In 1748 Father Pic- 

 quet began there La Presentation mis- 

 sion, which grew so rapidly, mainly by 

 recruits from the Onondaga and Cayuga, 

 that three years later the settlentent num- 

 bered 3,000. The French fort La Gallette 

 was built there about the same time. In 

 spite of the opposition of the Iroquois con- 

 federation the mission prospered, and at 

 the breaking out of the French and In- 

 dian war in 1754 the Oswegatchie and 

 other Catholic Iroquois sided with the 

 French against their former brethren. 

 The settlement was invaded the next year 

 by smallpox, which carried off nearly 

 half the population. In 1763 they were 

 estimated at al)otit400. They joined the 

 British in the Revolution and at the close 

 of the war the disorganized remnant was 

 settled temporarily at Johnstown and 

 later at Indian Point near Lisbon, not far 

 from their old settlement. About the 

 year 1806 the survivors finally joined the 

 Onondaga and St Regis. (j. n. b. h. ) 

 La Gallette.— Writer of 1756 in Ma.ss. Hi.st. Soc. Coll., 

 1st s., VII, 99, 1801. La Gattell.— Johnson (1763) in 

 N.Y.Doc. Col. Hist., vn,.573,1856(transposed). La 

 Presentation. — Quebec conf. (1751), ibid., x, 237, 

 1868(mis,sion name). Osevegatchies. — Imlay,West. 

 Ter., 293,1797(misprint). Osswegatche. — Johnson 

 (1763)in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vix, 573, 1856. Oswa- 

 gatches.— Boudinot, Star in the West, 128, 1816. 

 Oswagatic. — Writer of 1756 in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 1st s., VII, 99, 1801. Osweatchies.— Jefferson, 

 Notes, 282, 1825. Osweegachio.— Albany conf. 

 (1754) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., Vl, 862, 1855. Os- 

 weegchie. — Ibid., 887. Oswegachys. — Johnson 

 (1763) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, vi, 270, 1857. 

 Oswegatches. — Croghan (1765) in Monthlv Am. 

 Jour. GeoL, 272,1831. Oswegatchie.— Wraxali( 1754) 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., v, 23, 1836. Oswe- 

 gatchy.— Eastburn (1758) in Drake, Trag. Wild., 

 270, 1841. Oswegatsy.— Ft Johnson conf. (1756) 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vii, 47, 1856. Soegatzy.— 

 Document of 1749, ibid., x, 203, 1858. Sweega- 

 chie.— Mt Johnson conf. (1755), ibid., vi, 968, 1855. 

 Sweegassie. — Albany conf. (1754), ibid., 8.56. Swee- 

 gochie.— Wraxall (1756), ibid., vii, 20, 1856. Swe- 

 gaachey.— Johnson (1753), ibid., Vl, 779, 1855. Swe- 

 ga'-che. — Morgan, League Iroq., 26, 1851. Swega- 

 chee.— Johnson (1756) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vii, 

 90, 1856. Swegachey.— Mt Johnson conf. (1753), 

 ibid., VI, 811, 185,5. Swegachie.— Johnson (1''56), 

 ibid., VII, 132, 1856. Swegachy. — Canajoharieconf. 

 (1759), ibid. ,382. Swegatsy.— Stoddert (1753), ibid., 

 VI, 780, 1855. Swetgatchie.— Jefferys, Fr. Doms, 

 pt. 1, 141, 1761. Usuoke-haga.— Gatschet, Mohawk 

 MS., 1877 (Mohawk name). 



Oswego tea. A name applied to 3fo- 

 narda didyma, a plant used for medicinal 

 purposes by Indians, and after them 



