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  Sau-quoit 
  or 
  Sa-da-quoit 
  creek 
  has 
  been 
  defined 
  smooth 
  pebbles 
  

   in 
  a 
  stream. 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  this 
  creek 
  and 
  Whitestown 
  seems 
  

   the 
  same, 
  but 
  has 
  a 
  different 
  form 
  and 
  meaning. 
  In 
  the 
  patent 
  of 
  

   1736 
  it 
  was 
  Sadachqueda 
  or 
  Sahquate. 
  On 
  Sauthier's 
  map 
  it 
  is 
  

   Sidaghqueda, 
  and 
  Sadaghqueda 
  on 
  one 
  of 
  1790. 
  Spafford 
  said: 
  

   " 
  I 
  applied 
  to 
  Judge 
  Dean, 
  the 
  interpreter 
  to 
  the 
  Oneidas, 
  in 
  order 
  

   to 
  know, 
  how 
  to 
  write 
  it. 
  He 
  says 
  it 
  was 
  formerly 
  written 
  Sada- 
  

   quada, 
  shortened 
  latterly 
  in 
  sound 
  into 
  Sauquait, 
  but 
  that 
  the 
  

   Indians 
  speak 
  it 
  as 
  if 
  written 
  Chickawquait. 
  Sauquait 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  

   the 
  prevailing 
  pronunciation, 
  the 
  very 
  way 
  he 
  writes 
  it." 
  

  

  Shan-an-do'-a 
  creek, 
  great 
  hemlock, 
  was 
  called 
  after 
  the 
  old 
  chief, 
  

   John 
  Skenandoah, 
  who 
  said 
  he 
  was 
  an 
  old 
  hemlock, 
  dead 
  at 
  the 
  top. 
  

   It 
  is 
  now 
  a 
  frequent 
  family 
  name. 
  Morgan 
  wrote 
  it 
  Skun-an- 
  

   do'-wa, 
  and 
  applied 
  it 
  to 
  Vernon 
  Center. 
  He 
  gave 
  the 
  next 
  five 
  

   names. 
  

  

  Ska'-na-wis, 
  long 
  swamp, 
  in 
  Sangerfield. 
  

  

  Ska-nu'-sunk, 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  fox. 
  Vernon. 
  

  

  Ta-ga-soke, 
  forked 
  like 
  a 
  spear, 
  Fish 
  creek, 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  many 
  

   alluding 
  to 
  the 
  point 
  where 
  two 
  streams 
  meet. 
  Another 
  form 
  of 
  

   the 
  name 
  used 
  for 
  this 
  creek 
  in 
  Tegeroken, 
  interpreted 
  between 
  two 
  

   mouths, 
  varying 
  little 
  from 
  Tioga. 
  This 
  is 
  in 
  Annsville. 
  

  

  Te-o-na'-tale, 
  pine 
  forest. 
  Verona. 
  

  

  Te-ya-nun'-soke, 
  a 
  beach 
  tree 
  standing 
  up, 
  is 
  Ninemile 
  creek 
  in 
  

   the 
  town 
  of 
  Floyd. 
  Though 
  a 
  tributary 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  it 
  suggests 
  

   a 
  preceding 
  name. 
  

  

  The-ya-o'-guin, 
  white 
  head, 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  either 
  Rome 
  or 
  Oneida 
  

   lake 
  in 
  1748, 
  but 
  probably 
  the 
  latter 
  from 
  the 
  name, 
  which 
  seems 
  a 
  

   corruption 
  of 
  Tethiroguen, 
  an 
  early 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  lake, 
  also 
  referring 
  

   to 
  something 
  white. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  French 
  form. 
  

  

  Ti-an-a-da'-ra 
  or 
  Unadilla, 
  is 
  variously 
  written. 
  Its 
  head 
  waters 
  

   are 
  in 
  Bridgewater, 
  and 
  Van 
  Curler 
  noted 
  its 
  southerly 
  course 
  in 
  

   1634. 
  

  

  Tuscarora 
  was 
  given 
  by 
  Evans, 
  on 
  his 
  map 
  of 
  1743, 
  as 
  the 
  source 
  

   of 
  Oneida 
  creek, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  farther 
  west, 
  being 
  easily 
  identified 
  with 
  

   Chittenango 
  creek. 
  

  

  Twa-dah-ah-lo-dah-que, 
  ruins 
  of 
  a 
  fort, 
  is 
  another 
  name 
  for 
  

   Utica 
  from 
  the 
  ruins 
  of 
  old 
  Fort 
  Schuyler, 
  sometimes 
  called 
  Fort 
  

   Desolation 
  in 
  frontier 
  warfare. 
  

  

  