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Ke-ti-yen-goo-wah, big szi'amp, is near Tonawanda. D. Cusick 

 gave it as the fort Kea-dan-yee-ko-wa, now Tonawanda plains. 



O'-at-ka creek, the opening, is also called Allen's creek. This and 

 the next two are from Morgan. 



O-a'-geh, on the road. Pembroke. 



O-so'-ont-geh, place of turkeys. Darien. 



Roanoke is the name of a village in Stafford, introduced from 

 Virginia. In 1722 the Iroquois called the Roanoke river Konent- 

 cheneke. The disk shell beads are termed Roanoke. 



Ta'-na-wun-da or Tonawanda creek, swift water, from the rapid 

 current for lo miles below Batavia. There is also a Little Tona- 

 wanda creek. This and the next two are from Morgan's list. 



Te-car'-da-na-duk, place of many trenches. Oakfield. This is in 

 allusion to the old earthworks there. 



Te-car'-no-wun-na-da'-ne-o, many rapids. Leroy. 



Te-ga'-tain-e-a-agh-gwe, double fort. The Rev. Samuel Kirk- 

 land received this name in 1788, at a place near Batavia. " He ar- 

 rived at a place called by the Senecas, Tegataineaaghgwe, which 

 imports a double-fortiiicd town, or a town with a fort at each end. 

 Here he walked about ^ mile with one of the Seneca chiefs, to 

 view one of the vestiges of this double-fortified town. They were 

 the remains of two forts," which he thought were 2 miles apart. 



GREENE COUNTY 



As-sis-ko-wach-keek or As-sis-ko-wach-kok, was the fourth of 

 five plains mentioned in the Catskill patents of 1678 and 1680, just 

 beyond the stone bridge at Leeds. It may mean place of three 

 fires. Arthur C. Parker says that as'-sis-ko-wach-kek is rush land in 

 Abenaki, a-sis-ko-wach meaning scouring rushes and kek or ki land 

 or place. 



Ba-sic creek is a variant of a frequent name. 



Can-is-kek, a plain west of Athens, was sold in 1664, and is some- 

 times written Kaniskck. It was opposite Claverack and behind 

 Baeren or Machawameck island. 



Chough-tig-hig-nick, in Windham, is given by French as the 

 original name of Batavia kill. 



Cox-sack-ie, now applied to a creek and town, has been written 

 Kuxakee and Coxackie. Ruttenber derived it from co, object, and 



