﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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  Sis-to-go'-a-et 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  for 
  part 
  of 
  Genesee 
  river 
  on 
  Pouchot's 
  

   map. 
  

  

  Tagh-roon-wa'-go, 
  a 
  Seneca 
  town 
  of 
  1779, 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  

   Pennsylvania. 
  

  

  Wig'-wam 
  creek. 
  This 
  Algonquin 
  word 
  means 
  house. 
  

  

  Wis-coy 
  postoffice 
  is 
  on 
  Wiscoy 
  creek. 
  

  

  The 
  migration 
  of 
  the 
  Delawares 
  in 
  the 
  18th 
  century 
  brought 
  

   many 
  Algonquin 
  names 
  into 
  southwestern 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  BROOME 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  The 
  Indian 
  names 
  in 
  this 
  county 
  are 
  nearly 
  all 
  quite 
  recent, 
  

   those 
  of 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  being 
  the 
  only 
  ones 
  known 
  which 
  ante- 
  

   date 
  the 
  1 
  8th 
  century. 
  In 
  that 
  century 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  began 
  to 
  

   settle 
  on 
  that 
  river, 
  and 
  before 
  its 
  close 
  had 
  several 
  colonies 
  of 
  

   subject 
  tribes 
  on 
  or 
  near 
  its 
  banks. 
  Intercourse 
  with 
  Pennsylvania 
  

   increased 
  and 
  names 
  of 
  places 
  naturally 
  came 
  with 
  this. 
  

  

  A-no'-ka 
  seems 
  a 
  fanciful 
  name, 
  but 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  survival 
  of 
  

   Onoto. 
  Boyd, 
  however, 
  gives 
  it 
  as 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  village 
  in 
  Min- 
  

   nesota, 
  meaning 
  on 
  both 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  river. 
  

  

  An-o-jot'-ta 
  was 
  the 
  name 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  Moravians 
  for 
  Chenango 
  

   river 
  above 
  Chenango 
  Forks, 
  it 
  being 
  so 
  called 
  from 
  leading 
  to 
  

   Ana 
  jot 
  or 
  Oneida. 
  

  

  Che-nan'-go 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  river, 
  forks 
  and 
  lake. 
  Bingham- 
  

   ton 
  was 
  long 
  known 
  as 
  Chenango 
  Point. 
  Morgan 
  derived 
  this 
  

   from 
  O-che-nang, 
  bull 
  thistles, 
  and 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  thus 
  interpret 
  

   this 
  now. 
  In 
  colonial 
  days 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  and 
  Nanticoke 
  villages, 
  

   between 
  Chenango 
  Forks 
  and 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  were 
  collectively 
  

   known 
  as 
  Cheningo, 
  Otseningo 
  and 
  Zeniinge. 
  The 
  second 
  was 
  

   the 
  common 
  form 
  — 
  Sylvester 
  mistook 
  in 
  defining 
  Chenango 
  as 
  

   water 
  flowing 
  south. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  Little 
  and 
  Big 
  Choconut 
  creeks. 
  The 
  name 
  is 
  from 
  

   Chug-nutts, 
  variously 
  spelled. 
  In 
  1755 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  intended 
  

   placing 
  the 
  Shawnees 
  there. 
  It 
  was 
  burned 
  in 
  1779 
  and 
  was 
  then 
  

   called 
  Cokonnuck 
  and 
  Chukkanut. 
  The 
  name 
  may 
  be 
  from 
  Cho- 
  

   kohton, 
  blisters, 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  balsam 
  fir, 
  but 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  thought 
  

   it 
  was 
  place 
  of 
  tamaracks. 
  

  

  Co-hon-go-run'-to, 
  a 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Susquehanna, 
  according 
  to 
  

   Colden, 
  which 
  may 
  mean 
  either 
  a 
  river 
  in 
  the 
  woods, 
  or 
  one 
  which 
  

  

  