ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK I85 



tenber, who alone mentions it. It may be from seip, a river, and 

 locative. 



Ta-es-ca-me-a-sick is also placed by Rnttenber on the site of 

 Lansingburg, and suggests a ford. 



The Taghkanic mountains extend into this county. 



Tam-shen-a-kas-sick was a piece of woodland bought in 1678, 

 about 5 miles. east of the 1-Iudson. A reference to stones is again 

 seen here. 



Tax-ki-che-nok was a vly near this. 



Tom-han-nock creek is Tomhenuck on Sauthier's map, and may 

 be derived from tomniog, it is flooded, and hanne, a river. Rntten- 

 ber calls it Tomhenack, a tributary of the Hoosick from the south. 

 The first name is represented by a postoffice in Pittstown. 



Tou-har-na is another tributary of the Hoosick. It is an Iroquois 

 word and has been defined as hook or spear caught in the zuater. 

 This seems without foundation and tahioni, zcolf, or teyohrowe, 

 valley, are nearer this name. 



Tsat-sa-was-sa or Tack-a-was-ick creek and lake are placed in 

 the town of Nassau by French. The name may refer to a stone 

 mortar. 



Tus-cum-e-at-ick in O'Callaghan, and Tus-cum-ca-tick according 

 to French, is a name for Greenbush, and may refer to a fording 

 place, as to an island. 



Ty-o-shoke Church, at San Coick, is also called Tiashoke, and is 

 in the town of Hoosick. It suggests an Iroquois word for the 

 meeting of waters, and in fact the name is found in Oneida county. 



Un-se-wats castle is on the Hudson river on an early m,ap. It is 

 an Algonquin word, of course, and may be derived from oosoowe- 

 neat, to szmm, as a place favorable for bathing, or a customary way 

 of crossing. 



Wal-loom-sac river is variously given in old maps and papers. 

 Spafford wrote it Walloomscoic, and Ruttenber, Wallomschock. 



VVau-nau-kau-ma-kack. In 1767 some Indians claimed land from 

 this place, which was a little south of Colonel Hoffman's home, 

 northward to Fort Edward, as appears in a manuscript in the 

 Secretary of State's ofifice at Albany. 



