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Snake hill. Descriptive. 



South Berlin. Hamlet. See Berlin. 



Speigletown. Hamlet. Named for the Vanderspeigle families, 

 early settlers. " Vanderspeigle is probably a corruption of the 

 well-known Dutch family name of van de Spiegel. Cf . Lawrens 

 Pieter van de Spiegel, a famous Dutch statesman, about the 

 time of the French revolution, for whom a street in Amster- 

 dam is named." (A. J. F. van Laer) 



Staats island. Named for Barent Staats. 



Stephentown. Township, hamlet. Named for Stephen Van 

 Rensselaer, Patroon, 1784. 



Stephentown Center. Hamlet (formerly Mechanicsville). 



West Stephentown, South Stephentown and North Stephen- 

 town. Hamlets. 



Stillman Village. Hamlet. Cognominal. 



Sunkauissia creek. Sank-an-is-sick, a branch of the Tomhannock. 

 Root may be sonkin, to grow up like a plant. (Beauchamp). 



Sweet Milk creek. 



Taconic mountains. Indian name. Beauchamp gives Tagh-ka-nick, 

 water enough. Zeisberger has Tach-an-ni-ke, full of timber. 



Tackawasick pond and creek. (= Tsat-sa-was-sa and Sas-sa- 

 was-sa). 

 The name may refer to a stone mortar (Beauchamp). 



Tiashoke. Hamlet. (Ty-o-shoke). Iroquois, "meeting of 

 waters" (Beauchamp). 



Tierken kill. Dutch=noisy creek. " The derivation' from the verb 

 tieren, to make a noise, does not account for the k and seems 

 impossible, as tieren is used only in connection with people. 

 A more likely derivation is from Tierk, or Tjerk, the Frisian 

 form for Dirck, the given name of some early settler." (A. J. 

 F. van Laer) 



Tomhannock. Hamlet and creek. Mohawk=a flooded river 

 (Beauchamp). 



Troy. City. Originally Van Der Leyden and Van Der Leyden's 

 Ferry. " Changed in 1789 into the more classic name of Troy." 

 It contains two hills, Mt Olympus and Mt Ida. 



Upper Schodack island. See Schodack. 



Valley Falls. Village, on Hoosick river. 



Vosburgh pond. Cognominal. 



Walloomsac. River and hamlet, Variously written, of Indian 

 derivation, 



