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and Reid quotes from the grant made to Adam Voorhees on both 

 sides of the river above Cranesville : " On the south side ten mor- 

 gens (20 acres) opposite a place called by the Indians Juchtanunda, 

 that is ye stone house, being a hollow rock on ye river bank, where 

 ye Indians generally lie under when they travill to and fro their 

 country. The other pieces on the north side of the river, are a 

 little higher than ye said hollow rock or stone house att a place 

 called by the natives Syejodenawadde." At Amsterdam in 1802 

 the Rev. John Taylor said : " Near the center of this town Oucta- 

 nunda creek empties into the Mohawk." In some documents it is 

 written Chucttonaneda. 



Co-wil-li-ga creek was defined Willow creek by French. It is 

 in the town of Florida, and the definition may be from the accidental 

 resemblance in the sound. It may be a corruption of kahoweya, 

 a canoe, or the Oneida word kiowilla, arrozv. 



In 1753 the Indians said they had sold land at Stone Arabia, "no 

 further than the creek called the Cunstaghrathankre, in English the 

 creek that is never dry." 



Da-da-nas-ka-rie is the name given by Simms for a creek in 

 Fonda, on the Hansen patent in 1713. 



Da-de-nos-ca-ra is the same name as given by French, who defines 

 it as trees having excrescences. It is in the town of Mohawk and 

 near Tribes Hill. On the United States contour map it is 

 Danoscara. 



De-ka-no'-ge or Decanohoge was the third castle in 1756, and A. 

 Cusick defined the name as where I live. 



Et-a-gra-gon was a rock on the south side of the river. 



Ga-ro-ga creek, creek on this side; i. e. of the wilderness, there 

 being no Mohawk towns west of this for a long time. It might 

 also be derived from garogon, to make something of zvood. 



Hi-ro-cois or Iroquois was long the French term for the Mohawks 

 in particular, and hence of their country. In 1647 the Jesuits spoke 

 of the Indians here as " Hiroquois or Maquois, as the Dutch term 

 them." 



I-can-de-ro-ga or Jeandarage, forks of two streams, was a name 

 for the mouth of Schoharie creek in 1699, this being a variant of 

 another. 



