ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 26I 



local name at the junction of Conewango creek and the Allegany. 



Diahoga was Tioga, now Athens. This is from teyogen, any- 

 thing betzi'een tzvo others, or, as commonly used, teihohogen, forks 

 of a river. Hecke welder gave a very erroneous definition of the 

 word, saying : " Tioga is corrupted from Tiao'ga, an Iroquois word 

 signifying a gate. This name was given by the Six Nations to the 

 wedge of land lying within the forks of the Tioga (or Chemung) 

 and North Branch — in passing which streams the traveler entered 

 their territory as through a gate. The country south of the forks 

 was Delaware country." The latter did not own it, but the Iro- 

 quois allowed them to live there. 



Ga-na-ta-jen-go'-na, big town, was Zeisb^rger's Onondaga name 

 for Philadelphia. 



Ginashadgo. Cornplanter wrote from this in 1794, and it seems 

 an erroneous form of the name of his town, 



Goschgoschunk, mentioned in 1766, is now Tionesta. It seem& 

 to mean ferrying place. 



Ingaren was a Tuscarora village destroyed at Great Bend in 

 1779. 



Onochsae, hollow mountain, mentioned by CammerholT at Me- 

 hoppen. The name also occurs in New York, but in their travels 

 the Iroquois placed many names in other states. 



Osgochgo was mentioned by Spangenberg in his journey to On- 

 ondaga in 1745. It is now Sugar creek, and in 1737 Weiser called 

 it Oscahu, the fierce. 



Ostonwackin near the Ostonage is another of these Iroquois 

 names, derived from ostenra, a rock, one being prominent opposite 

 the Indian village at Montoursville. Often written Otstonwackin. 



Panawakee or Ganawaca was a Seneca town north of Tionesta 

 in 1766. The latter form is the correct one, referring to rapids. 



Paghsekacunk was 6 miles below Tioga in 1757. It was far above 

 that place in 1766. 



Quequenakee, place of long pines, is Heckewelder's name for 

 Philadelphia. 



"Scahandowana alias Wioming," was mentioned in 1755. The 

 first is the Iroquois name, meaning great plains. 



Senexe was the Iroquois name of the west branch of the Susque- 

 hanna. 



