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  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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  Falls. 
  An 
  early 
  name 
  for 
  West 
  Canada 
  creek, 
  Guyahora 
  is 
  the 
  

   same. 
  

  

  Ni-ha-run-ta-quo-a, 
  great 
  tree, 
  the 
  council 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Oneidas, 
  

   was 
  applied 
  to 
  their 
  town 
  in 
  1743. 
  Otherwise 
  this 
  is 
  not 
  a 
  place 
  

   name 
  here. 
  Hiawatha 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  found 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  Oneidas 
  

   resting 
  by 
  a 
  great 
  tree 
  which 
  they 
  had 
  cut 
  down. 
  David 
  Cusick's 
  

   story 
  has 
  been 
  mentioned, 
  but 
  he 
  gave 
  no 
  reason 
  for 
  the 
  name. 
  

  

  Nun-da-da'-sis, 
  around 
  the 
  hill, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  Utica 
  in 
  

   allusion 
  to 
  the 
  way 
  the 
  road 
  swept 
  around 
  the 
  hill 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  city. 
  

   Another 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  word 
  was 
  U-nun-da-da'-ges, 
  and 
  Morgan 
  gave 
  

   also 
  the 
  dialectal 
  variations, 
  which 
  are 
  mostly 
  in 
  the 
  prefixes. 
  

  

  On-ei-da 
  is 
  the 
  present 
  form 
  of 
  a 
  word 
  variously 
  spelled, 
  but 
  

   meaning 
  standing 
  stone. 
  Oneiyuta 
  is 
  one 
  form. 
  The 
  French 
  wrote 
  

   it 
  Onneiout, 
  the 
  Moravians 
  Ana 
  jot. 
  This 
  people 
  first 
  lived 
  in 
  the 
  

   central 
  part 
  of 
  Madison 
  county, 
  having 
  their 
  name 
  from 
  a 
  large 
  

   upright 
  stone 
  at 
  their 
  early 
  town 
  a 
  little 
  south 
  of 
  Perryville. 
  This 
  

   was 
  perpetuated 
  by 
  the 
  great 
  boulder 
  at 
  Nichols 
  pond, 
  where 
  they 
  

   lived 
  in 
  161 
  5. 
  A 
  stone 
  was 
  selected 
  for 
  their 
  later 
  villages 
  as 
  the 
  

   national 
  emblem. 
  There 
  is 
  much 
  variety 
  in 
  spelling. 
  The 
  Jesuits 
  

   mentioned 
  them 
  in 
  1635 
  as 
  the 
  Oniochrhonons, 
  and 
  10 
  years 
  later 
  

   spoke 
  of 
  their 
  town 
  as 
  Ononjote 
  which 
  would 
  refer 
  to 
  the 
  hills 
  

   rather 
  than 
  a 
  stone. 
  In 
  1654 
  they 
  dropped 
  the 
  first 
  syllable 
  of 
  

   this, 
  bringing 
  the 
  word 
  nearer 
  its 
  present 
  form. 
  On 
  their 
  map 
  of 
  

   1665 
  ^ 
  i 
  s 
  Onneiout. 
  

  

  Sir 
  William 
  Johnson 
  spoke 
  of 
  the 
  meaning 
  of 
  the 
  name 
  in 
  

   1 
  77 
  1 
  : 
  "They 
  have 
  in 
  use 
  [as] 
  Symbols, 
  a 
  Tree, 
  by 
  which 
  they 
  

   w 
  d 
  Express 
  Stability. 
  But 
  their 
  true 
  Symbols 
  is 
  a 
  Stone 
  called 
  

   Onoya, 
  and 
  they 
  called 
  themselves 
  Onoyuts 
  a 
  particular 
  Inst 
  ce 
  of 
  

   wch 
  I 
  can 
  give 
  from 
  an 
  Expedt* 
  I 
  went 
  on 
  to 
  Lake 
  St 
  Sacrament 
  in 
  

   1746, 
  when 
  to 
  show 
  the 
  Enemy 
  the 
  strength 
  of 
  our 
  Ind 
  n 
  Alliances 
  

   I 
  desired 
  Each 
  Nation 
  to 
  affix 
  their 
  Symbols 
  to 
  a 
  Tree 
  [to 
  alarm] 
  

   the 
  French 
  ; 
  the 
  Oneydas 
  put 
  up 
  a 
  stone 
  wch 
  they 
  painted 
  Red." 
  

  

  Professor 
  Dwight 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  stone 
  too 
  large 
  to 
  be 
  

   carried 
  by 
  a 
  man 
  of 
  ordinary 
  strength, 
  at 
  some 
  distance 
  eastward 
  

   from 
  the 
  Oneida 
  village, 
  which 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  people 
  regard 
  with 
  

   reverence. 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  They 
  say 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  slowly 
  followed 
  their 
  

   nation 
  in 
  its 
  various 
  removals." 
  It 
  was 
  then 
  in 
  Oneida 
  county 
  

   and 
  a 
  young 
  man 
  told 
  him 
  he 
  had 
  several 
  times 
  removed 
  it 
  short 
  

  

  