ABORIGIXAI^ PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK I99 



unsuccessful Mahican attack on Gandawague'. Gen. John S. Clark 

 said : " Kinaquariones is the steep rocky hill on the north side of 

 the Mohawk river, just above Hofifman's Ferry. The ancient 

 aboriginal name is still preserved in the contracted form of Tow- 

 ereoune." Pearson gives two other forms of the name, the three 

 varying in sex and person according to A. Cusick. Canaquarioney 

 is / arrow maker, Hinquariones he arrozv maker, Kinaquariones, 

 she arrow maker," as though the one or the other dwelt there. 

 These variations are in the patent dated in 1683. Kanquaragoone 

 is now Towereune, and in 1729 Tower joene was mentioned as the 

 western boundary of Schenectady. 



Nis-ka-yu-na. French said in a note on this name: "Said to 

 be a corruption of Nis-ti-gi-oo-ne, or Co-nis-ti-gi-o-ne, by which it 

 is known on the old maps. The name is said to signify 'extensive 

 corn flats.' The term was also applied to portions of Watervliet 

 and Half Moon. Upon the advent of the whites this place was 

 occupied by a tribe of Indians known as the ' Conistigione.' " The 

 last statement agrees with A. Cusick's definition of corn people. 

 Ruttenber thought Niskayuna a variation from the word onatschia, 

 maize. 



Oh-no-wal-a-gan-tle is said by Macauley to have been a con- 

 siderable Mohawk town at Schenectady, when the Dutch first bought 

 lands there between 1616 and 1620, but the first purchase was in 

 1661, and there is no ground for believing a Mohawk town was 

 ever there. The name is like the next. 



O-no-o-la-gone'-na, //; the head, is one of Alorgan's names for 

 Schenectady. No-wa-go-na would be this in Onondaga. It may 

 be rendered head on a pole, but big head seems better. Sylvester 

 defined this pained in the head. 



Or-ra-ke, called Orakkie in 1695, was on the Mohawk below the 

 beginning of the Dellius grant. 



O-wen-di-ere was the beginning of the Dellius grant, mentioned 

 in -Colonial Laws, and extending up the Mohawk. 



Schen-ec-ta-dy was properly the name of Albany, but was soon 

 placed here, being equally significant in coming from the east. It 

 is usually translated beyond the pines or openings, and varies much 

 in s])elling. Spaff<ird said : " The present name of this city was 

 criginall}- applied to Albany, pronounced by the Indians Schagh- 



