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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  many 
  early 
  references 
  to 
  it 
  by 
  these 
  names. 
  Sir 
  William 
  

   Johnson 
  named 
  it 
  Charlotte 
  in 
  honor 
  of 
  that 
  queen. 
  

  

  As-tra-gun-te-ra 
  was 
  a 
  tributary 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  

   Delaware. 
  The 
  name 
  may 
  be 
  from 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  word 
  atrakwenda, 
  

   a 
  flint. 
  

  

  A-wan'-da 
  creek, 
  an 
  affluent 
  of 
  the 
  Susquehanna. 
  Awan 
  is 
  Zeis- 
  

   berger's 
  Delaware 
  word 
  for 
  fog 
  or 
  dew, 
  but 
  the 
  name 
  is 
  suggestive 
  

   of 
  Iroquois 
  origin, 
  and 
  possibly 
  contracted 
  from 
  Tonawanda. 
  

  

  Ca-do'-si-a 
  was 
  defined 
  by 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  as 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  blanket. 
  

  

  Can-ni-us-kut-ty 
  has 
  been 
  interpreted 
  a 
  creek, 
  and 
  is 
  a 
  tributary 
  

   of 
  the 
  Delaware 
  in 
  some 
  land 
  papers. 
  French 
  wrote 
  it 
  Camskutty. 
  

  

  Che-hoc'-ton 
  or 
  Sho-ka-kin, 
  at 
  the 
  forks 
  of 
  the 
  Delaware 
  in 
  

   Hancock, 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  mean 
  union 
  of 
  streams, 
  but 
  there 
  seems 
  no 
  good 
  

   reason 
  for 
  this. 
  The 
  first 
  name 
  may 
  be 
  from 
  Geihuhacta, 
  a 
  river 
  

   bank. 
  

  

  Chil'-o-way 
  is 
  from 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  Moravian 
  Indian 
  convert. 
  

  

  Coke-ose, 
  or 
  ozvl's 
  nest, 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Deposit. 
  Gokhoos, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  is 
  the 
  Delaware 
  word 
  for 
  owl, 
  without 
  reference 
  to 
  a 
  nest. 
  

   Cookhouse 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  come 
  from 
  this, 
  being 
  written 
  Kook- 
  

   house 
  in 
  1777. 
  

  

  Cole-ti-en. 
  Some 
  Indians 
  had 
  gone 
  to 
  this 
  place' 
  or 
  Auquago 
  in 
  

   1777. 
  I 
  think 
  they 
  were 
  different 
  places, 
  and 
  that 
  this 
  was 
  called 
  

   Kloltin, 
  he 
  contends, 
  originating 
  the 
  local 
  name 
  of 
  Croton. 
  

  

  Cook-qua-go 
  or 
  Cacquago, 
  place 
  of 
  a 
  woman's 
  or 
  girl's 
  skirt, 
  

   according 
  to 
  A. 
  Cusick, 
  w 
  r 
  as 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Delaware 
  river. 
  This 
  

   name 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  used 
  because 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  called 
  the 
  Dela- 
  

   wares 
  women, 
  and 
  often 
  made 
  figurative 
  allusions 
  to 
  their 
  clothing. 
  

   As 
  before 
  said, 
  Boyd 
  derived 
  it 
  from 
  Kekoa, 
  owl, 
  and 
  gowa, 
  great. 
  

  

  Cro'-ton 
  creek 
  and 
  village, 
  in 
  Franklin, 
  may 
  have 
  had 
  this 
  name 
  

   from 
  Westchester 
  county, 
  or 
  it 
  may 
  have 
  had 
  a 
  local 
  origin. 
  It 
  has 
  

   been 
  derived 
  from 
  kenotin, 
  the 
  wind, 
  and 
  also 
  from 
  kloltin, 
  he 
  

   contends. 
  

  

  Keht-han-ne, 
  principal 
  or 
  largest 
  river, 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  

   Mohawk 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Delaware, 
  distinguishing 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  other. 
  

  

  Len-a-pe-wi-hit-tuck 
  is 
  the 
  river 
  of 
  the 
  Lenape 
  or 
  Delawarcs, 
  

   Lenape 
  being 
  their 
  word 
  for 
  man, 
  adding 
  wak 
  to 
  express 
  men. 
  

   It 
  gave 
  the 
  idea 
  thai 
  they 
  were 
  men 
  surpassing 
  all 
  others, 
  a 
  feature 
  

   of 
  several 
  national 
  titles, 
  The 
  [roquois 
  called 
  them 
  women, 
  claim- 
  

  

  