﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  . 
  95 
  

  

  from 
  the 
  originals, 
  for 
  the 
  sole 
  purpose 
  of 
  making 
  them 
  readable 
  

   to 
  the 
  ordinary 
  reader." 
  

  

  Wa-co-ni-na 
  was 
  interpreted 
  for 
  me 
  as 
  there 
  used 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  bridge. 
  

   It 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Little 
  lakes 
  on 
  the 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Hamp- 
  

   shire 
  grants. 
  

  

  Wa-i-ont-ha 
  lakes 
  on 
  Sauthier's 
  map 
  are 
  now 
  Little 
  lakes 
  in 
  the 
  

   town 
  of 
  Warren. 
  This 
  seems 
  the 
  original 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  name. 
  

  

  Witchopple 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  now 
  given 
  to 
  a 
  small 
  lake. 
  

  

  Yon-dut-de-nogh-scha-re 
  creek, 
  in 
  1714, 
  suggests 
  Cusick's 
  name 
  

   •of 
  .Yenonanatche 
  for 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  river. 
  

  

  Many 
  Indian 
  names 
  have 
  been 
  recently 
  applied 
  to 
  camps 
  and 
  

   summer 
  houses 
  in 
  the 
  wilderness, 
  as 
  Cohasset, 
  Manhasset, 
  Mohawk 
  

   and 
  Onondaga 
  camps, 
  and 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  Hiawatha 
  lodges. 
  

  

  JEFFERSON 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  Indian 
  names 
  in 
  this 
  county 
  are 
  mostly 
  of 
  Iroquois 
  origin, 
  but 
  

   are 
  few 
  in 
  number. 
  When 
  its 
  bays, 
  rivers 
  and 
  fort 
  sites 
  were 
  well 
  

   peopled 
  it 
  must 
  have 
  had 
  many, 
  but 
  this 
  was 
  in 
  prehistoric 
  days. 
  

   For 
  more 
  than 
  three 
  centuries 
  at 
  least 
  it 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  inhabited 
  by 
  

   its 
  former 
  owners, 
  yet 
  some 
  names 
  still 
  refer 
  to 
  early 
  times. 
  It 
  is 
  

   every 
  way 
  probable 
  that 
  this 
  was 
  long 
  the 
  home 
  of 
  the 
  Onondagas, 
  

   but 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  territory 
  at 
  last 
  fell 
  to 
  the 
  Oneidas. 
  

  

  At-en-ha-ra-kweh-ta-re, 
  where 
  the 
  wall 
  fell 
  down, 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  

   as 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  French 
  creek 
  at 
  Clayton. 
  Hough 
  said 
  that 
  on 
  Penet's 
  

   patent 
  French 
  creek 
  is 
  called 
  Weteringhare 
  Guentere, 
  meaning 
  a 
  

   fallen 
  fort 
  and 
  referring 
  to 
  an 
  Oneida 
  tradition 
  of 
  a 
  fort 
  they 
  

   captured 
  there. 
  Fort 
  sites 
  are 
  frequent 
  in 
  the 
  county 
  but 
  none 
  have 
  

   been 
  reported 
  at 
  Clayton. 
  

  

  Hough 
  said 
  a 
  French 
  map, 
  in 
  Yale 
  College 
  library, 
  called 
  Carle- 
  

   ton 
  island 
  Cahihououage, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  probably 
  an 
  error 
  of 
  place, 
  as 
  

   the 
  word 
  means 
  large 
  creek 
  or 
  river, 
  and 
  belongs 
  to 
  Salmon 
  river, 
  

   once 
  known 
  as 
  La 
  Famine. 
  

  

  Cat-ar-ga-ren-re, 
  Catagaren 
  and 
  Cadranghie 
  are 
  variants 
  of 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  Sandy 
  creek 
  recorded 
  in 
  1687. 
  It 
  was 
  written 
  Et-cat-ar- 
  

   a-gar-en-re 
  in 
  1755, 
  and 
  is 
  Catagaren 
  on 
  Sauthier's 
  map. 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  

   defined 
  this 
  as 
  mud 
  raised 
  like 
  a 
  chimney, 
  but 
  slanting 
  to 
  one 
  side. 
  

   This 
  might 
  refer 
  to 
  the 
  many 
  prehistoric 
  earthworks 
  along 
  its 
  

   •course. 
  Te-ka'-da-o-ga'-he 
  is 
  another 
  name, 
  meaning 
  sloping 
  banks 
  

   and 
  perhaps 
  but 
  a 
  variant 
  of 
  those 
  above. 
  

  

  