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Young'-haugh was described as being in the open woods of 

 which it was the name in 1779, and 11 miles west of the Indian 

 village just named, but it seems the same word, perhaps given to a 

 large tract of land. 



MADISON COUNTY 



Nearly all this county was in the original Oneida territory, but 

 for a long time they occupied only the southern part, leaving a 

 broad space between them and the Mohawks, which it required 

 several days to pass. When the Tuscaroras came north they were 

 assigned all the territory between the higher hills and Oneida lake in 

 one direction, and reaching from Oneida to Chittenango creek in 

 the other. Near each of these streams the Tuscaroras had a large 

 town, with smaller ones intervening. The names preserved are 

 mostly in the Oneida and Onondaga dialects. Some Algonquin 

 tribes also found a refuge here, but they have left no names of their 

 own. 



Ah-gote'-sa-ga-nage, where the Stockhridges live, refers to a 

 people adopted by the Oneidas and given a home. The name given 

 refers merely to a fact, its meaning being lost. 



Ah-wa'-gee, perch lake, is Morgan's name for Cazenovia lake and 

 village. Variants of this will be given. 



Ca-na-das-se-o-a is on a creek flowing into Oneida lake about 

 midway, and not far e&st of Canassaraga Castle, on Sauthier's map. 

 Accounts of travelers would place it but little west of Oneida creek 

 in 1752. It may have been removed. A. Cusick defined this as a 

 znllage spread out, somewhat as butter is spread on bread. It was 

 a Tuscarora town, and these had wide streets and ample room. I 

 am inclined to think this a corruption of Ganatisgoa, the name by 

 which the Moravians called the most easterly Tuscarora town. 



Ca-na-se-ra'-ga was a name for Cazenovia lake for quite a time, 

 and it thus appears in the act incorporating the village. 



Ca-na-se-ra'-ga creek and village are Ka-na'-so-wa'-ga, several 

 strings of beads with a string lying across, according to Morgan and 

 Seaver. The Onondagas give the same meaning, and the word may 

 allude to some special ceremonial use of wampum. Kanaghseragy 

 was the Tuscarora castle in 1756. The Moravians wrote it Ganoch- 

 sorage a little before that time, but the sound has been quite uni- 



