ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 2O3 



SCHUYLER COUNTY 



Ca-yu'-ta is now the name of a lake, creek, village and town, and 

 may have come from geihate, a river, being first applied to the creek. 

 It may also have been corrupted from kanyatiye, a lake, but as good 

 a derivation would be from keunton, prickly ash. An abbreviation 

 of kayahtane is also suggestive, this being the Onondaga name of 

 mosquito. 



Che-o-quock, Shughquago and Sheoquago are variants of the 

 name of Catharine's town, destroyed in 1779. Queen Catharine was 

 one of the noted Montour family, from whom Montour Falls de- 

 rives its name. The first form given suggests raccoon place. {See 

 Shequaga below] 



Con-daw'-haw was an Indian hamlet in 1779, south of Kendaia 

 and on the east side of Seneca lake. Most of the journals do not 

 notice it. Ken-daw-ya is given for prairie by Gallatin, implying 

 any clearing. 



Ga-ni-a-ta-ren'-ge, at the lake, is a name for Cayuta lake in 

 Cammerhofif's journal of 1750. 



Que-a-nett-qua-ga was another name for Catharine's town in 

 1779. 



Seneca, an Algonquin name for the nation to whom most of 

 'Seneca lake belonged. For a considerable time the lake formed 

 the boundary between the Cayugas and Senecas. 



She-qua'-ga. Thomas Maxwell applied this name of Catharine's 

 town to the falls near Havana (Montour's Falls) and defined it 

 roaring or tumbling zvater. He probably derived it from gaskon- 

 chiagon, a frequent name for waterfalls. The town was some miles 

 away, yet might have been named in this way as a place in the 

 vicinity. 



SENECA COUNTY 



Ca-no'-ga. Morgan wrote the name of this Cayuga village Ga- 

 no'-geh. and defined it oil on the zi'atcr. Others have called it sweet 

 ivater, but the first definition is preferable. It is near the shore 

 of Cayuga lake, and a monument marks it as the birthplace of Red 

 Jacket. All the villages here of the recent colonial period seem to 

 have been Cayuga. 



Ca-yu'-ga lake. The definitions of Cayuga need not be repeated 



