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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  She-na-wa-ga 
  or 
  Shenanwaga 
  appears 
  in 
  a 
  journal 
  of 
  1779, 
  and 
  

   was 
  the 
  village 
  burned 
  at 
  Kashong. 
  

  

  Sin-non-do- 
  wae-ne 
  was 
  the 
  principal 
  Seneca 
  castle 
  in 
  1720, 
  re- 
  

   taining 
  the 
  old 
  name 
  in 
  another 
  place. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  variant 
  of 
  Sonnon.- 
  

   touan, 
  great 
  hill, 
  and 
  was 
  probably 
  often 
  used 
  in 
  a 
  general 
  way. 
  

  

  Son-nont-ho-no-rons 
  or 
  Sonnontouans, 
  great 
  hill 
  people 
  was 
  the 
  

   Iroquois 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Senecas 
  as 
  commonly 
  used. 
  As 
  a 
  place 
  name 
  

   it 
  came 
  from 
  ononta, 
  hill, 
  and 
  gowana 
  or 
  wan, 
  great. 
  In 
  the 
  Rela- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  1635 
  the 
  country 
  is 
  termed 
  Sonontoen, 
  and 
  in 
  that 
  of 
  1670 
  

   appear 
  the 
  " 
  Tsonnontouans, 
  or 
  Nation 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Mountain." 
  

  

  Thau-gwe-took 
  was 
  a 
  prehistoric 
  Seneca 
  fort 
  and 
  council 
  fire 
  

   west 
  of 
  Seneca 
  lake, 
  according 
  to 
  D. 
  Cusick. 
  

  

  Zin-no-do-wan-ha, 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1689, 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  Sinnondo- 
  

   waene. 
  

  

  While 
  some 
  early 
  towns 
  were 
  in 
  Monroe 
  county, 
  many 
  later 
  

   Seneca 
  villages 
  were 
  near 
  Genesee 
  river, 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  can 
  be 
  assigned 
  

   to 
  their 
  exact 
  places 
  only 
  by 
  careful 
  study, 
  such 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  

   to 
  the 
  subject 
  by 
  Messrs 
  Clark, 
  Conover, 
  Harris 
  and 
  Marshall. 
  

  

  ORANGE 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  All 
  the 
  Indian 
  names 
  in 
  this 
  county 
  belong 
  to 
  Algonquin 
  dialects. 
  

  

  A-i-as-ka-wost-ing 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  some 
  high 
  hills 
  on 
  the 
  Evans 
  

   patent, 
  west 
  of 
  Murderer's 
  Kill. 
  This 
  patent 
  was 
  vacated 
  in 
  1699. 
  

  

  A-las-ka-ye-ring 
  mountains 
  are 
  now 
  the 
  Minisink 
  hills. 
  The 
  name 
  

   seems 
  a 
  variant 
  of 
  the 
  last. 
  

  

  An-nuck 
  was 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Evans 
  patent, 
  and 
  seems 
  to 
  mean 
  a 
  

   filthy 
  place. 
  

  

  Ar-ack-hook 
  was 
  the 
  Indian 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  Tin 
  brook 
  or 
  Thin 
  

   brook 
  of 
  the 
  Germans. 
  Ruttenber 
  derived 
  this 
  from 
  the 
  Delaware 
  

   word 
  ahgook 
  or 
  snake. 
  In 
  1701 
  Robert 
  Sanders 
  asked 
  for 
  a 
  patent 
  

   "beginning 
  at 
  a 
  fall 
  (i. 
  e. 
  a 
  stream 
  of 
  water) 
  called 
  Arackhook." 
  

  

  As-sin-na-pink 
  creek, 
  according 
  to 
  Ruttenber, 
  is 
  a 
  stream 
  from 
  

   the 
  solid 
  rocks. 
  It 
  is 
  opposite 
  Anthony's 
  Nose, 
  and 
  has 
  also 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  Ach-sin-nik, 
  which 
  would 
  hardly 
  bear 
  the 
  above 
  inter- 
  

   pretation. 
  

  

  A-wost-ing 
  lake 
  or 
  Long 
  pond 
  suggests 
  the 
  first 
  name 
  above. 
  It 
  

   may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  awossi, 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  side. 
  

  

  Basher's 
  kill 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  had 
  its 
  name 
  from 
  a 
  squaw 
  called 
  

  

  