﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  I43 
  

  

  De-o'-nake-hus'-sink, 
  never 
  clean, 
  is 
  Christian 
  hollow. 
  

  

  De-o'-sa-da-ya'-ah, 
  deep 
  basin 
  spring. 
  He 
  said 
  this 
  meant 
  " 
  the 
  

   Iroquois 
  in 
  their 
  journeys 
  upon 
  the 
  great 
  thoroughfare." 
  A 
  jour- 
  

   nal 
  of 
  Colonel 
  Gansevoort's 
  party 
  in 
  1779 
  speaks 
  . 
  of 
  it 
  as 
  the 
  

   " 
  Sunken 
  spring 
  in 
  the 
  road." 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  mentioned 
  in 
  the 
  land 
  

   treaties 
  of 
  1788 
  and 
  1795, 
  but 
  in 
  no 
  others, 
  By 
  a 
  natural 
  change 
  

   of 
  the 
  initial 
  letter 
  J. 
  V. 
  H. 
  Clark 
  made 
  this 
  Te-ungn-sat-a-yagh, 
  

   interpreting 
  it 
  by 
  the 
  fort 
  at 
  the 
  spring, 
  and 
  adding 
  : 
  " 
  Near 
  this 
  

   spring 
  was 
  anciently 
  the 
  easternmost 
  setlement 
  of 
  the 
  Onondagas. 
  

   They 
  had 
  at 
  this 
  place 
  an 
  earthen 
  fort, 
  surrounded 
  with 
  palisades. 
  

   There 
  were 
  always 
  stationed 
  at 
  this 
  place 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  warriors, 
  to 
  

   hold 
  the 
  eastern 
  door 
  of 
  the 
  nation" 
  Neither 
  in 
  history, 
  in 
  the 
  

   name 
  or 
  on 
  the 
  spot 
  is 
  there 
  any 
  evidence 
  o'f 
  this. 
  The 
  first 
  

   definition 
  is 
  substantially 
  correct. 
  

  

  De-o'-wy-un'-do, 
  windmill, 
  is 
  from 
  an 
  early 
  windmill 
  on 
  Pompey 
  

   hill. 
  

  

  Ga-ah'-na 
  rising 
  to 
  the 
  surface 
  and 
  then 
  sinking, 
  is 
  connected 
  

   with 
  an 
  unrecorded 
  tale 
  of 
  a 
  drowning 
  man 
  in 
  Otisco 
  lake. 
  A. 
  

   Cusick's 
  definition 
  harmonized 
  with 
  this, 
  being 
  the 
  last 
  seen 
  of 
  any- 
  

   thing, 
  but 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  know 
  the 
  allusion. 
  

  

  Ga-che'-a-yo, 
  lobster, 
  is 
  Limestone 
  creek 
  at 
  Fayetteville, 
  mean- 
  

   ing 
  that 
  fresh-water 
  crayfish 
  were 
  abundant 
  there. 
  The 
  Onondaga 
  

   name 
  for 
  this 
  crustacean 
  is 
  o-ge-a-ah, 
  meaning 
  claws. 
  

  

  Ga-do'-quat 
  is 
  an 
  Oneida 
  name 
  for 
  Brewerton, 
  which 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  

   defined 
  / 
  got 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  water. 
  It 
  may 
  allude 
  to 
  fording 
  the 
  river 
  

   or 
  landing 
  from 
  the 
  lake. 
  In 
  1654 
  Father 
  Le 
  Moyne 
  was 
  carried 
  

   from 
  a 
  canoe 
  to 
  the 
  shore 
  on 
  an 
  Indian's 
  back, 
  lest 
  he 
  should 
  get 
  

   wet. 
  The 
  place 
  has 
  many 
  names, 
  as 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  expected. 
  

  

  Ga-na-wa'-ya, 
  at 
  the 
  great 
  swamp. 
  Assigned 
  to 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  

   Liverpool 
  and 
  its 
  vicinity, 
  but 
  is 
  properly 
  Cicero 
  swamp. 
  

  

  Ga-nun-ta'-ah, 
  material 
  for 
  council 
  fire, 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Onondaga 
  

   lake, 
  but 
  the 
  definition 
  may 
  be 
  doubted. 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  defined 
  it 
  near 
  

   the 
  village 
  on 
  a 
  hill; 
  that 
  is, 
  Onondaga. 
  The 
  Indians 
  now 
  call 
  it 
  

   Oh-nen-ta-ha. 
  The 
  early 
  French 
  form 
  was 
  Ganentaa 
  and 
  Kaneenda 
  

   the 
  English. 
  

  

  Ga-sun'-to, 
  bark 
  in 
  the 
  water, 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Jamesville 
  and 
  of 
  

   Butternut 
  creek 
  at 
  that 
  place. 
  Clark 
  said 
  of 
  the 
  creek 
  : 
  " 
  Indian 
  

   name 
  ^Ka-soongk-ta,' 
  formerly 
  called 
  by 
  the 
  whites, 
  ' 
  Kashunkta,' 
  

  

  