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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  taken- 
  as 
  the 
  proper 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  river. 
  Any 
  stream 
  that 
  has 
  become 
  

   muddy 
  will, 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  it 
  is 
  so, 
  be 
  called 
  Susquehanna. 
  Hecke- 
  

   welder, 
  p. 
  262. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  ingenious, 
  but 
  Captain 
  John 
  Smith 
  described 
  the 
  Sasque- 
  

   hannocks 
  living 
  on 
  that 
  river 
  in 
  1608, 
  two 
  centuries 
  before 
  Hecke- 
  

   welder 
  wrote. 
  He 
  called 
  them 
  Sasquesahannocks, 
  a 
  people 
  at 
  war 
  

   with 
  the 
  Massawomecks, 
  supposed 
  by 
  many 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  but 
  

   probably 
  the 
  Eries. 
  Mr 
  W. 
  W. 
  Tooker 
  would 
  make 
  hanock 
  and 
  

   its 
  variants 
  expressive 
  of 
  a 
  people. 
  The 
  Susquehannocks 
  sold 
  

   metallic 
  articles 
  to 
  the 
  Chesapeake 
  Indians, 
  and 
  may 
  have 
  gained 
  

   these 
  in 
  war. 
  He 
  therefore 
  suggested 
  that 
  Sasquesah 
  might 
  be 
  

   the 
  equivalent 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  England 
  Sequettah, 
  signifying 
  booty, 
  

   and 
  rendered 
  the 
  whole 
  word, 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  booty 
  obtained 
  in 
  war. 
  

   If 
  the 
  terminal 
  were 
  hanne 
  or 
  river, 
  he 
  would 
  then 
  define 
  it 
  river 
  

   of 
  booty. 
  From 
  the 
  quotation 
  above 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  seen 
  that 
  Hecke- 
  

   welder 
  did 
  not, 
  as 
  he 
  supposed, 
  suggest 
  " 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  corruption 
  

   of 
  the 
  Delav/are 
  Quenisch-ach-gek-hanne, 
  the 
  long 
  reach 
  river." 
  

   That 
  he 
  gave 
  to 
  the 
  west 
  branch 
  and 
  claimed 
  a 
  very 
  different 
  origin 
  

   for 
  the 
  name 
  in 
  question. 
  In 
  1885 
  some 
  Canadian 
  Delawares 
  said 
  : 
  

   "We 
  called 
  the 
  Susquehanna, 
  A-theth-qua-nee, 
  the 
  roily 
  river." 
  

   Simms 
  defined 
  it 
  crooked 
  river. 
  Its 
  Iroquois 
  names 
  will 
  appear 
  

   elsewhere. 
  

  

  Ti-ough'-ni-6-ga 
  river 
  has 
  a 
  name 
  which 
  is 
  but 
  a 
  larger 
  form 
  of 
  

   Tioga, 
  referring 
  to 
  the 
  forks 
  of 
  rivers. 
  Spafford 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  If 
  I 
  am 
  

   correctly 
  informed, 
  this 
  name 
  is 
  formed 
  from 
  Te-ah-hah-hogue, 
  

   the 
  meeting 
  of 
  roads 
  and 
  waters 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  place." 
  One 
  early 
  

   form 
  was 
  Te-yogh-a-go-ga. 
  The 
  Moravians 
  wrote 
  it 
  Tiohujodha, 
  

   describing 
  its 
  many 
  forks. 
  On 
  Dwight's 
  map 
  it 
  is 
  Tionioga. 
  It 
  

   was 
  sometimes 
  called 
  the 
  Onondaga, 
  as 
  an 
  easy 
  highway 
  from 
  the 
  

   Susquehanna 
  to 
  Onondaga. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  wrong 
  local 
  pronunciation. 
  

  

  Ze-ni-in'-ge 
  or 
  Zeninge 
  was 
  the 
  Moravian 
  form 
  of 
  Chenango. 
  It 
  

   was 
  not 
  a 
  Tuscarora 
  town 
  as 
  De 
  Schweinitz 
  supposed. 
  

  

  CATTARAUGUS 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  Al-le-ga'-ny 
  river 
  and 
  town 
  [see 
  Allegany 
  county]- 
  The 
  river 
  

   was 
  called 
  O-hee'-yo 
  or 
  beautiful 
  river, 
  by 
  the 
  Iroquois. 
  It 
  may 
  

   be 
  noted 
  that 
  io 
  often 
  combined 
  the 
  idea 
  of 
  grandeur 
  with 
  beauty 
  ; 
  

   something 
  very 
  fine. 
  In 
  this 
  way 
  they 
  probably 
  meant 
  this 
  for 
  the 
  

   great 
  river. 
  

  

  