﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  1 
  1.3 
  

  

  from 
  the 
  end. 
  The 
  Moravians 
  give 
  the 
  only 
  account 
  of 
  this 
  town, 
  

   which 
  was 
  two 
  hours 
  west 
  of 
  Old 
  Oneida. 
  

  

  Ga-no'-a-lo'-hale, 
  head 
  on 
  a 
  pole, 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  latest 
  Oneida 
  

   Castle, 
  has 
  been 
  applied 
  to 
  Oneida 
  lake 
  from 
  its 
  proximity. 
  This 
  

   favorite 
  name 
  was 
  very 
  variable 
  in 
  recorded 
  forms. 
  It 
  is 
  Ga-no'- 
  

   wi-ha 
  in 
  Onondaga, 
  and 
  Ga-no'-a-o-ha 
  in 
  Mohawk. 
  

  

  Ga-noch-so-ra-ge, 
  now 
  Canaseraga, 
  was 
  often 
  mentioned 
  by 
  the 
  

   Moravians 
  as 
  the 
  western 
  Tuscarora 
  town. 
  

  

  Goi-en'-ho 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Oneida 
  lake 
  in 
  1655, 
  Oneida 
  river 
  ap- 
  

   pearing 
  as 
  a 
  stream 
  issuing 
  from 
  it. 
  The 
  word 
  means 
  a 
  crossing 
  

   place, 
  possibly 
  alluding 
  to 
  the 
  passage 
  of 
  the 
  lake 
  in 
  canoes 
  or 
  on 
  

   the 
  ice. 
  In 
  that 
  case 
  necessity 
  might 
  appear 
  : 
  the 
  lake 
  where 
  they 
  

   must 
  cross. 
  It 
  is 
  quite 
  probable, 
  however, 
  that 
  the 
  allusion 
  is 
  to 
  

   the 
  ford 
  or 
  ferry 
  at 
  Brewerton, 
  when, 
  according 
  to 
  Iroquois 
  custom, 
  

   it 
  would 
  be 
  the 
  lake 
  at 
  the 
  crossing 
  place. 
  

  

  "Hoh-wah-ge-neh 
  (Onondaga) 
  O-wah-ge-ha-gah 
  (Oneida). 
  

   Literally, 
  the 
  lake 
  where 
  the 
  yellow 
  perch 
  swim, 
  or 
  yellow 
  perch 
  

   lake," 
  is 
  J. 
  V. 
  H. 
  Clark's 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Cazenovia 
  lake. 
  

   Both 
  Oneidas 
  and 
  Onondagas 
  have 
  assured 
  me 
  of 
  its 
  essential 
  cor- 
  

   rectness. 
  Of 
  course 
  the 
  word 
  yellow 
  does 
  not 
  enter 
  into 
  the 
  com- 
  

   bination, 
  the 
  word 
  used 
  specifying 
  a 
  well 
  known 
  fish, 
  thus 
  dis- 
  

   tinguished 
  by 
  Clark 
  from 
  the 
  gray 
  perch 
  or 
  pike. 
  In 
  his 
  Gazetteer 
  

   for 
  181 
  3 
  Spafford 
  speaks 
  of 
  Cazenovia 
  lake 
  "called 
  by 
  the 
  Indians 
  

   Hawhaghinah, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  by 
  the 
  English 
  Canaseraga." 
  

  

  Kaw-na-taw-te-ruh. 
  In 
  his 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  David 
  

   Cusick 
  said 
  they 
  traveled 
  westward 
  from 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  river 
  and 
  

   came 
  "to 
  a 
  creek 
  which 
  was 
  named 
  Kaw-na-taw-te-ruh, 
  i. 
  e. 
  pineries. 
  

   The 
  second 
  family 
  was 
  directed 
  to 
  make 
  their' 
  residence 
  near 
  the 
  

   creek, 
  and 
  the 
  family 
  was 
  named 
  Ne-haw-re-tah-go, 
  i. 
  e. 
  big 
  tree, 
  

   now 
  Oneidas, 
  and 
  likewise 
  their 
  language 
  was 
  altered." 
  Big 
  Tree 
  

   is 
  the 
  council 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Oneidas. 
  He 
  added 
  a 
  note 
  : 
  "The 
  creek 
  

   now 
  branches 
  off 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  river 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  generally 
  called 
  

   Col. 
  Allen's 
  lake, 
  10 
  miles 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  Oneida 
  Castle." 
  The 
  

   Pineries 
  are 
  now 
  the 
  Pine 
  Woods 
  in 
  Eaton, 
  but 
  he 
  should 
  have 
  said 
  

   Colonel 
  Leland's 
  lake 
  instead 
  of 
  Allen's. 
  

  

  Ne-wa-gegh-koo, 
  an 
  old 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  bay 
  at 
  the 
  southeast 
  angle 
  

   of 
  Oneida 
  lake, 
  mentioned 
  in 
  a 
  treaty 
  of 
  1798. 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  inter- 
  

   preted 
  this 
  where 
  I 
  ate 
  heartily. 
  There 
  was 
  a 
  recent 
  Oneida 
  village 
  

  

  