ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 27 



Sis-to-go'-a-et is the name for part of Genesee river on Pouchot's 

 map. 



Tagh-roon-wa'-go, a Seneca town of 1779, seems to have been in 

 Pennsylvania. 



Wig'- warn creek. This Algonquin word means house. 



Wis-coy postoffice is on Wiscoy creek. 



The migration of the Delawares in the i8th century brought 

 many Algonquin names into southwestern New York. 



BROOME COUNTY 



The Indian names in this county are nearly all quite recent, 

 those of the Susquehanna being the only ones known which ante- 

 date the 1 8th century. In that century the Iroquois began to 

 settle on that river, and before its close had several colonies of 

 subject tribes on or near its banks. Intercourse with Pennsylvania 

 increased and names of places naturally came with this. 



A-no'-ka seems a fanciful name, but it may be a survival of 

 Onoto. Boyd, however, gives it as the name of a village in Min- 

 nesota, meaning on both sides of the river. 



An-o-jot'-ta was the name given to the Moravians for Chenango 

 river above Chenango Forks, it being so called from leading to 

 Anajot or Oneida. 



Che-nan'-go is the name of the river, forks and lake. Bingham- 

 ton was long known as Chenango Point. Morgan derived this 

 from O-che-nang, bull thistles, and the Onondagas thus interpret 

 this now. In colonial days the Onondaga and Nanticoke village^5, 

 between Chenango Forks and the Susquehanna were collectively 

 known as Cheningo, Otseningo and Zeniinge. The second was 

 the common form — Sylvester mistook in defining Chenango as 

 water ffozving south. 



There are Little and Big Choconut creeks. The name is from 

 Chug-nutts, variously spelled. In 1755 the Onondagas intended 

 placing the Shawnees there. It was burned in 1779 and was then 

 called Cokonnuck and Chukkanut. The name may be from Cho- 

 kohton, blisters, a name for the balsam fir, but A. Cusick thought 

 it was place of tamaracks. 



Co-hon-go-run'-to, a name of the Susquehanna, according to 

 Colden, which may mean either a river in the woods, or one which 



