﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  77 
  

  

  quoted 
  from 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Historical 
  Society 
  1 
  821, 
  page 
  337. 
  Hon. 
  

   Samuel 
  Jones 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  true 
  name 
  is 
  Chateuaga 
  which 
  was 
  the 
  

   name 
  given 
  the 
  town 
  when 
  first 
  erected, 
  but 
  I 
  remember 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   members 
  of 
  the 
  Assembly 
  then 
  observed 
  to 
  me 
  that 
  the 
  town 
  would 
  

   soon 
  lose 
  its 
  name, 
  for 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  of 
  Indian 
  origin, 
  and 
  very 
  few 
  of 
  

   the 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Legislature 
  gave 
  it 
  the 
  proper 
  pronunciation, 
  

   the 
  most 
  of 
  them 
  calling 
  it 
  Chateaugay." 
  In 
  sound 
  it 
  suggests 
  an 
  

   Iroquois 
  quite 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  a 
  French 
  word. 
  It 
  is 
  pronounced 
  

   Shat-a-ghe'. 
  

  

  Con-gam'-muck 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  given 
  by 
  Sabattis 
  for 
  Lower 
  Saranac 
  

   lake, 
  gammuck 
  being 
  old 
  Algonquin 
  for 
  lake. 
  The 
  first 
  syllable 
  

   might 
  be 
  from 
  kon 
  or 
  gun, 
  meaning 
  snow, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  hardly 
  prob- 
  

   able. 
  It 
  is 
  more 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  contraction 
  of 
  qunni, 
  meaning 
  it 
  is 
  

   long. 
  In 
  the 
  Abenaki 
  dialect 
  caucongomock 
  is 
  simply 
  a 
  lake. 
  The 
  

   guidebooks 
  say 
  the 
  Indians 
  call 
  Lower 
  Saranac 
  lake 
  Lake 
  of 
  the 
  

   Clustered 
  Stars, 
  from 
  its 
  many 
  islands. 
  A 
  very 
  pretty 
  idea, 
  but 
  

   hardly 
  Indian 
  in 
  character. 
  

  

  Ey-en-saw'-yee 
  is 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  Long 
  Sault 
  and 
  head 
  of 
  St 
  Regis 
  

   island, 
  on 
  Sauthier's 
  map, 
  and 
  seems 
  a 
  corruption 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  

   name 
  of 
  St 
  Regis. 
  

  

  Ga-na-sa-da'-go, 
  or 
  side 
  hill, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  Lake 
  St 
  

   Francis. 
  It 
  seems 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  that 
  of 
  Canassatego, 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  

   chief, 
  defined 
  for 
  me 
  as 
  upsetting 
  a 
  house 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  put 
  in 
  

   order. 
  

  

  Gau-je-ah-go-na'-ne, 
  sturgeon 
  river, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  Salmon 
  

   river 
  in 
  the 
  Oneida 
  dialect. 
  In 
  Onondaga 
  the 
  sturgeon 
  is 
  Ken-jea- 
  

   go-na, 
  or 
  big 
  fish. 
  The 
  last 
  syllable 
  given 
  by 
  Morgan 
  may 
  be 
  super- 
  

   fluous, 
  or 
  the 
  full 
  termination 
  may 
  be 
  gOwane, 
  great. 
  There 
  seems 
  to 
  

   be 
  an 
  error 
  in 
  his 
  first 
  syllable. 
  The 
  Mohawks 
  gave 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   Kinshon, 
  or 
  fish, 
  to 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  colony 
  at 
  one 
  council. 
  

  

  Hi-a-wat'-ha 
  Lodge 
  has 
  this 
  name 
  from 
  the 
  celebrated 
  Onondaga 
  

   chief 
  who 
  proposed 
  the 
  league 
  of 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations, 
  and 
  around 
  

   whom 
  cluster 
  many 
  legends. 
  He 
  was 
  adopted 
  by 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  and 
  

   his 
  name 
  comes 
  second 
  in 
  their 
  list 
  of 
  chiefs, 
  with 
  a 
  dialectal 
  change. 
  

   It 
  has 
  been 
  borne 
  by 
  his 
  successors 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  day. 
  The 
  inter- 
  

   pretations 
  have 
  been 
  many, 
  as 
  the 
  river 
  maker, 
  the 
  man 
  who 
  combs, 
  

   the 
  very 
  wise 
  man, 
  he 
  who 
  makes 
  the 
  wampum 
  belt, 
  and 
  last 
  and 
  

   probably 
  the 
  best, 
  he 
  who 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  lost 
  his 
  mind 
  but 
  seeks 
  it, 
  

  

  