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Nes-ti-gi-0-ne patent was granted in 1708. It was also called 

 Connestigune, Held covered with corn. 



Nis-ka-yu-na is from the last, and this great corn land extended 

 into Albany and Schenectady counties. • 



The Saratoga patent was called Och-se-ra-ton-que and Och-se- 

 chra-ge by the Mohawks" in 1683. The present name may have 

 come from the former, and both seem descriptive of Cb cold country. 



O-i-o'-gue, at the river, was a place where Father Jogues crossed 

 the Hudson in 1646. A similar name was applied to the Mohawk. 



Os-sa-ra-gas was a name for Wood creek. 



Os-sa-ra-gue closely resembles the last, and was applied to a fish- 

 ing place on the Hudson in 1646, south of Glens Falls. It was 

 probably transferred to a new fishery. Oseragi is an old Mohawk 

 word for winter, but A. Cusick thought this name meant place of 

 a knife, which is a good interpretation. Jogues mentioned the 

 place, 



Ots-kon-da-ra-o-go-o, a creek on the north side of the Mohawk 

 and near the Canastagione tract. It was on the Niskayuna land 

 bought in 1682, and opposite the tract mentioned. 



Qua-he-mis-cos was the Mahican name of Long island, near 

 Waterford. 



Sa-con-da'-ga, much water, equivalent here to drowned lands. 

 Spafford defined it swamp or marsh, which will do as well. Stone 

 incorrectly made it place of roaring water. 



Sar-a-to'-ga. A great many forms and supposed meanings of 

 this are on record. Morgan wrote it S'har-la-to'-ga, without a defi- 

 nition. Spafford said : " E. Williams, descended from the St Regis 

 Indians, a man of mixed, blood and some literature, tells me that 

 the Indian phrase, from which this name has been formed, is 

 O-sah-rah-ka, the sidehills." Ruttenber derived it from soragh, salt, 

 and aga, place; Xhence salt springs, but this is erroneous. Schoolr 

 craft thought it came from assarat, sparkling waters, and aga, place. 

 There is no foundation for this, and both these definitions refer to 

 the springs, while Saratoga was originally at Schuylerville on the 

 Hudson. Mr W. L. Stone, considering this, derived it from saragh, 

 swift water, and aga, a place or people, making it equivalent to 

 Kayaderoga and Saraghoga, and illustrating his definition by calling 

 Sacondaga, place of roaring wa/^r;.Ticonderoga, place where the 



