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Sheshesquin, a Delaware town below Tioga, destroyed in 1778. 

 It has been called Calabash town, the word meaning the gourd 

 used for rattles. 



Shamokin, now Sunbury, was a noted place and the seat of the 

 Iroquois viceroy Shikellimy. This was his Delaware name. Sha- 

 mokin is derived from the Delaware schachamekhau, eel stream. 



" Tsanogh ahas Shamokin " was mentioned in 1755. It was also 

 called Tsinaghsee, which was its Iroquois name. 



Tenachshagouchtongu, burnt house, is a name for O'Beal's 

 (Cornplanter's) town in 1794. 



Tenkghanacke was as far above Wyoming as Fort Allen was 

 below. Tunkhannock. 



Tschochniade was the Iroquois name for Juniata river in 1752. 



Washinta was the falls on the Susquehanna to which the Onon- 

 dagas and Cayugas extended the protection of New York in 1684. 

 This is a contraction of Tawasentha, the Mohawk word for water-' 

 fall. 



Wyalusing, home of the old warrior. Luken defines it " Ye Great 

 Big Old Man's creek, or Old Man's town." Reichel said that 

 M'chwihilusing signified the place of the hoary veteran, from mihi- 

 lusis, an old man. A noted mission. The Iroquois called it Gahon- 

 toto, to lift the canoe at the falls there. 



Yoghroonwago, a Seneca town destroyed in 1779, by Brodhead. 



Pennsylvania Indian names have had much attention, and as 

 much of the province was subject to the New York Iroquois after 

 1675, their local names abound. 



NEW JERSEY 



Absecom, a beach 16 miles southwest of Little Egg Harbor. 

 Schoolcraft derived this from wabisee, a swan, and ong, place. 



Acquackinac was an Indian town on the Passaic, 10 miles north 

 of Newark. Schoolcraft's fanciful derivation was from aco, a limit, 

 misquak, red cedar, and auk, stump of a tree. 



Ahasimus was opposite New York, and was sold in 1630. A 

 tract north of this and reaching to Hoboken was sold the same year. 



Amboy, from emboli, a place resembling a bowl or bottle, ac- 

 cording to Heckewelder. 



Apopalyck was a name of Communipaw in 1649. 



