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taken as the proper name of the river. Any stream that has become 

 muddy will, at the time it is so, be called Susquehanna. Hecke- 

 w elder, p. 262. 



This is ingenious, but Captain John Smith described the Sasque- 

 hannocks living on that river in 1608, two centuries before Hecke- 

 welder wrote. He called them Sasquesahannocks, a people at war 

 with the Massawomecks, supposed by many to be the Iroquois but 

 probably the Eries. Mr W. W. Tooker would make hanock and 

 its variants expressive of a people. The Susquehannocks sold 

 metallic articles to the Chesapeake Indians, and may have gained 

 these in war. He therefore suggested that Sasquesah might be 

 the equivalent of the New England Sequettah, signifying booty, 

 and rendered the whole word, people of the booty obtained in war. 

 If the terminal were hanne or river, he would then define it river 

 of booty. From the quotation above it will be seen that Hecke- 

 welder did not, as he supposed, suggest " that it was a corruption 

 of the Delav/are Quenisch-ach-gek-hanne , the long reach river." 

 That he gave to the west branch and claimed a very dififerent origin 

 for the name in question. In 1885 some Canadian Delawares said : 

 "We called the Susquehanna, A-theth-qua-nee, the roily river." 

 Simms defined it crooked river. Its Iroquois names will appear 

 elsewhere. 



Ti-ough'-ni-6-ga river has a name which is but a larger form of 

 Tioga, referring to the forks of rivers. Spafiford said : " If I am 

 correctly informed, this name is formed from Te-ah-hah-hogue, 

 the meeting of roads and waters at the same place." One early 

 form was Te-yogh-a-go-ga. The Moravians wrote it Tiohujodha, 

 describing its many forks. On Dwight's map it is Tionioga. It 

 was sometimes called the Onondaga, as an easy highway from the 

 Susquehanna to Onondaga. There is a wrong local pronunciation, 



Ze-ni-in'-ge or Zeninge was the Moravian form of Chenango. It 

 was not a Tuscarora town as De Schweinitz supposed. 



CATTARAUGUS COUNTY 



Al-le-ga'-ny river and town {see Allegany county]- The river 

 was called O-hee'-yo or beautiful river, by the Iroquois. It may 

 be noted that io often combined the idea of grandeur with beauty; 

 something very fine. In this way they probably meant this for the 

 great river. 



