﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IO7 
  

  

  Beautiful 
  Valley, 
  and 
  other 
  slightly 
  varying 
  names. 
  In 
  early 
  days 
  

   the 
  stream 
  was 
  often 
  termed 
  the 
  Little 
  Seneca 
  river. 
  

  

  Ho-ne-oye 
  creek, 
  finger 
  lying, 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  line 
  of 
  the 
  county, 
  

   having 
  its 
  name 
  from 
  the 
  lake 
  and 
  town. 
  

  

  "Kanuskago, 
  the 
  Door 
  of 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations," 
  was 
  at 
  Dansville 
  

   and 
  first 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1756. 
  The 
  Mohawks 
  kept 
  the 
  eastern 
  and 
  

   the 
  Senecas 
  the 
  western 
  door 
  of 
  the 
  Long 
  House. 
  The 
  name 
  often 
  

   appears 
  in 
  colonial 
  history 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  already 
  noticed. 
  Kenon- 
  

   skegon 
  is 
  Pouchot's 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  name 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  time, 
  but 
  this 
  

   would 
  mean 
  an 
  empty 
  house, 
  and 
  this 
  would 
  not 
  be 
  appropriate 
  for 
  

   an 
  important 
  town. 
  

  

  Kan-va-gen, 
  a 
  Seneca 
  village 
  on 
  Pouchot's 
  map, 
  seems 
  Cana- 
  

   waugus. 
  

  

  Ka-yen-ge-de-ragh-te 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  the 
  Revolutionary 
  War 
  

   as 
  a 
  village 
  about 
  10 
  miles 
  from 
  an 
  unnamed 
  Seneca 
  town. 
  Its 
  

   location 
  is 
  uncertain 
  and 
  it 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  Karathyadirha. 
  

  

  Ke-int-he 
  was 
  first 
  mentioned 
  by 
  Greenhalgh 
  in 
  1677, 
  and 
  was 
  

   near 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  Livingston 
  and 
  Ontario 
  counties, 
  having 
  been 
  as- 
  

   signed 
  to 
  both. 
  It 
  had 
  other 
  names, 
  but 
  its 
  own. 
  survives 
  in 
  the 
  Bay 
  

   of 
  Quinte, 
  in 
  Canada. 
  

  

  Ke-sha-qua 
  or 
  Coshaqua 
  creek 
  has 
  its 
  name 
  from 
  gah-she-gweh, 
  

   a 
  spear. 
  Ka-sa-wa-sa-hy-a, 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  the 
  Genesee 
  towns, 
  was 
  near 
  

   this 
  in 
  1779. 
  

  

  Ko-ho-se-ra-ghe, 
  a 
  Seneca 
  village 
  of 
  1687, 
  may 
  be 
  Canaseraga, 
  

   but 
  it 
  appears 
  elsewhere, 
  as 
  might 
  be 
  expected. 
  As 
  here 
  written 
  the 
  

   word 
  would 
  mean 
  winter 
  in 
  Mohawk, 
  but 
  not 
  in 
  Seneca. 
  

  

  Little 
  Seneke 
  river 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  often 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  Genesee 
  to 
  

   distinguish 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  Seneca 
  river 
  farther 
  east. 
  

  

  Lima 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  corruption, 
  by 
  the 
  Indians 
  or 
  Spaniards, 
  of 
  

   the 
  aboriginal 
  South 
  American 
  word 
  Rimac. 
  

  

  Na-ga-noose, 
  clear 
  running 
  water, 
  the 
  outlet 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  Cale- 
  

   donia 
  spring, 
  is 
  derived 
  from 
  ogh-ne-ka-nos, 
  water. 
  

  

  No-ehn-ta 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  used 
  by 
  the 
  Moravians 
  in 
  1750 
  for 
  Hem- 
  

   lock 
  lake 
  and 
  outlet. 
  In 
  their 
  hurried 
  journey 
  they 
  may 
  have 
  mis- 
  

   taken 
  this 
  for 
  the 
  true 
  name 
  of 
  O-neh-da, 
  hemlock 
  spruce, 
  from 
  the 
  

   abundance 
  of 
  this 
  tree 
  there. 
  Marshall 
  approaches 
  the 
  Moravian 
  

   form, 
  calling 
  it 
  Nah'-daeh, 
  hemlock, 
  from 
  o-nah-dah, 
  hemlock, 
  and 
  

   ga-ah', 
  it 
  is 
  upon. 
  

  

  