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There are many early references to it by these names. Sir William 

 Johnson named it Charlotte in honor of that queen. 



As-tra-gun-te-ra was a tributary of the Mohawk branch of the 

 Delaware. The name may be from the Mohawk word atrakwenda,. 

 a Hint. 



A-wan'-da creek, an affluent of the Susquehanna. Awan is Zeis- 

 berger's Delaware word for fog or dew, but the name is suggestive 

 of Iroquois origin, and possibly contracted from Tonawanda. 



Ca-do'-si-a was defined by A. Cusick as covered with a blanket. 



Can-ni-us-kut-ty has been interpreted a creek, and is a tributary 

 of the Delaware in some land papers. French wrote it Camskutty. 



Che-hoc'-ton or Sho-ka-kin, at the forks of the Delaware in 

 Hancock, is said to mean union of streams, but there seems no good 

 reason for this. The first name may be from Geihuhacta, a river 

 bank. 



Chil'-o-way is from the name of a Moravian Indian convert. 



Coke-ose, or oid's nest, was a name for Deposit. Gokhoos, how- 

 ever, is the Delaware word for owl, without reference to a nest. 

 Cookhouse is said to have come from this, being written Kook- 

 house in 1777. 



Cole-ti-en. Some Indians had gone to this place or Auquago in 

 1777. I think they were different places, and that this was called 

 Kloltin, he contends, originating the local name of Croton. 



Cook-qua-go or Cacquago, place of a zvonians or girl's skirt, 

 according to A. Cusick, was a branch of the Delaware river. This 

 name may have been used because the Iroquois called the Dela- 

 wares zvomen, and often made figurative allusions to their clothing. 

 As before said, Boyd derived it from Kekoa, ozul, and gowa, great. 



Cro'-ton creek and village, in Franklin, may have had this name 

 from Westchester county, or it may have had a local origin. It has 

 been derived from kenotin, the zvind, and also from kloltin, he 

 contends. 



Keht-han-ne, principal or largest river, was a name for the 

 Mohawk branch of the Delaware, distinguishing it from the other. 



Len-a-pe-wi-hit-tuck is tJle river of the Lenape or Delawares, 

 Lenape being their word for man, adding wak to express men. 

 It gave the idea that they were men surpassing all others, a feature 

 of several national titles. The Iroquois called them women, claim- 



