ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK I57 



journal. One village of this name had been deserted and a new one 

 built. 



Gan-na-ga-ro was the printipal Seneca town in 1677, though De 

 Nonville thought Totiakton larger 10 years later. It was on Bough- 

 ton hill and was the mission of St James. If corrupted it may have 

 been originally great village. A. Cusick thought it might mean she 

 lived there^ or else had a reference to many animals. It had other 

 names, and occupied a commanding situation. 



Ga'-noon-daa-gwah', a chosen tozvn, is given by Marshall for 

 Canandaigua. He derived it from gan-on-da, toimi, and gaa-gwah, 

 it was selected. 



Ga-non'-da-eh, village on a hill, is Marshall's name for a place 

 on the east bank of Honeoye creek, where the turnpike crosses the 

 stream. This has also been written Ga-nun'-da-ok. 



Ga-o'-sa-ga-o, in the hassn'ood country, is Morgan's name for 

 Boughton hill and Victor. Mr O. H. Marshall had this name, 

 slightly varied, from the Seneca chief Blacksnake. It was Ga-o'- 

 sa-eh-ga-aah, the basszuood bark lies there. According to the old 

 chief the fine spring on the hillside supplied the whole town, bass- 

 wood bark conductors bringing the water to convenient points. 

 This seems improbable from the situation. After long occupation 

 the town was burned in the French invasion of 1687. 



Gar-naw-quash is placed on the site of Kashong on Morgan's 

 map. 



One journal of the Sullivan campaign calls Canandaigua lake 

 Genesee, and another has it Chinesee lake. 



Hach-ni-a-ge lake and town represent Honeoye in Cammerhofif's 

 journal. 



Hon-e-o-ye is Ha'-ne-a-yah, Unger lying, in Morgan's list. There 

 was an early town near the lake of this name. Marshall wrote it 

 Hah'-nyah-yah', adhere the finger lies, deriving it from hah-nyah, 

 his Unger, and ga-yah, it lies there. He said an Indian, picking 

 strawberries near the foot of Honeoye lake, had his finger bitten 

 by a rattlesnake. He cut off the finger with his tomahawk and 

 left it lying there. The name varies much, and Hanyaye, Han- 

 neyauyen and Anyayea are some of these. Onaghe suggests it, 

 but is much farther east. Major Fogg, in a journal of 1779, said of 

 Annaquayen, " This took its name from a misfortune which befell 



