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  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  distances, 
  his 
  friends 
  believing 
  it 
  had 
  moved 
  itself. 
  Several 
  such 
  

   stones 
  were 
  described. 
  Thus 
  in 
  Lothrop's 
  life 
  of 
  Kirkland 
  it 
  is 
  

   said: 
  "Oneida 
  signifies 
  the 
  upright 
  stone. 
  There 
  is 
  still 
  stand- 
  

   ing 
  in 
  the 
  township 
  of 
  Westmoreland, 
  a 
  few 
  miles 
  'from 
  the 
  

   old 
  Oneida 
  castle, 
  an 
  upright 
  stone 
  or 
  rock, 
  of 
  considerable 
  size, 
  

   rising 
  a 
  few 
  feet 
  from 
  the 
  ground, 
  which 
  tradition, 
  and 
  without 
  

   doubt 
  correctly, 
  points 
  out? 
  as 
  their 
  national 
  altar. 
  Here, 
  in 
  the 
  

   days 
  of 
  their 
  paganism, 
  from 
  time 
  immemorial, 
  they 
  were 
  accus- 
  

   tomed 
  every 
  year 
  to 
  assemble 
  to 
  worship 
  the 
  Great 
  Spirit, 
  and 
  hold 
  

   a 
  solemn 
  religious 
  festival." 
  

  

  O-ney-da 
  river 
  was 
  an 
  early 
  name 
  for 
  Fish 
  creek. 
  

  

  O-ris'-ka-ny, 
  nettles, 
  is 
  derived 
  by 
  Morgan 
  from 
  ole'-hisk, 
  and 
  

   applied 
  to 
  the 
  creek. 
  The 
  Oneidas 
  often 
  used 
  1 
  for 
  r. 
  Ochriskeny 
  

   creek 
  is 
  on 
  a 
  map 
  of 
  1790, 
  and 
  Orisca 
  on 
  earlier 
  maps. 
  It 
  has 
  

   been 
  interpreted 
  where 
  there 
  zvas 
  a 
  large 
  Held, 
  and 
  this 
  is 
  supported 
  

   by 
  the 
  Indians' 
  complaint 
  in 
  1765, 
  that 
  a 
  German 
  squatter 
  was 
  on 
  

   their 
  " 
  large 
  Held 
  Orisca.'' 
  In 
  the 
  Clinton 
  papers 
  of 
  1777 
  the 
  

   Indians 
  of 
  Orisca 
  are 
  mentioned. 
  It 
  is 
  O-his'-heh 
  in 
  Seneca, 
  

   O-his'-ha 
  in 
  Cayuga, 
  O-his'-ka 
  in 
  Onondaga, 
  Ose-hase'-keh 
  in 
  

   Tuscarora, 
  Ole'-hisk 
  in 
  Oneida, 
  and 
  Ole-his'-ka 
  in 
  Mohawk. 
  No 
  

   dialect 
  now 
  gives 
  precisely 
  the 
  usual 
  form, 
  but 
  in 
  1756 
  the 
  Oriskeni 
  

   patent 
  was 
  recorded, 
  and 
  Oriscany 
  creek 
  and 
  Ochriscany 
  patent 
  

   are 
  on 
  Sauthier's 
  map. 
  The 
  Rev. 
  Dr 
  Belknap 
  said 
  in 
  1796: 
  

   " 
  Between 
  Mr 
  Kirkland's 
  and 
  his 
  sons 
  is 
  the 
  Oriskany 
  creek, 
  

   which, 
  Mr 
  Deane 
  says, 
  is 
  a 
  corrupt 
  pronunciation 
  of 
  Olhiske 
  sig- 
  

   nifying 
  ' 
  a 
  place 
  of 
  nettles.' 
  The 
  nettles 
  are 
  very 
  plentiful 
  and 
  

   large 
  on 
  its 
  banks." 
  While 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  for 
  nettles 
  is 
  ohrhes, 
  A. 
  

   Cusick 
  said 
  this 
  might 
  be 
  applied 
  to 
  anything 
  growing 
  large 
  in 
  a 
  

   field. 
  

  

  Ose'-te-a-daque, 
  in 
  the 
  bone, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  Trenton 
  

   village. 
  

  

  Os-ten-ra-gowa-ri-on-ni 
  was 
  an 
  Oneida 
  fishing 
  place 
  mentioned 
  

   by 
  Bruyas. 
  Ostenra 
  is 
  a 
  rock, 
  and 
  this 
  may 
  be 
  the 
  point 
  of 
  rocks 
  

   above 
  mentioned, 
  though 
  the 
  word 
  is 
  different. 
  

  

  Ot-se-quotte, 
  a 
  lot 
  in 
  Westmoreland 
  was 
  called 
  after 
  an 
  Indian. 
  

   It 
  is 
  a 
  corruption 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  chief's 
  title, 
  which 
  is 
  O-tat-sheh-te, 
  

   bearing 
  a 
  quiver. 
  

  

  