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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  campaign. 
  It 
  was 
  the 
  grist 
  mill 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  near 
  the 
  Bennington 
  

   battle 
  ground, 
  and 
  Burgoyne 
  called 
  it 
  Sainturich 
  mill. 
  The 
  Indians 
  

   termed 
  it 
  Sahan-kaim-soick, 
  as 
  appears 
  from 
  Albany 
  records, 
  and 
  

   from 
  this 
  came 
  San 
  Coick. 
  It 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Hoosick. 
  

  

  San-na-ha-gog 
  was 
  erroneously 
  placed 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson 
  by 
  

   Ruttenber. 
  

  

  Schagh-ti-coke 
  is 
  usually 
  defined 
  landslide, 
  and 
  is 
  an 
  Algonquin 
  

   word. 
  Spafford 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  This 
  name, 
  so 
  long, 
  crooked 
  and 
  hard, 
  

   that 
  it 
  puzzles 
  everybody, 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  originated 
  with 
  the 
  Mo- 
  

   hawk 
  Indians. 
  The 
  original 
  was 
  Scaughwunk, 
  a 
  name 
  by 
  them 
  

   applied 
  to 
  a 
  sand 
  slide 
  of 
  nearly 
  200 
  yards 
  elevation, 
  extending 
  for 
  

   a 
  considerable 
  distance 
  along 
  the 
  right 
  bank 
  of 
  Hoosac 
  river, 
  under 
  

   an 
  angle 
  of 
  about 
  60 
  degrees 
  with 
  the 
  horizon." 
  Ruttenber 
  derived 
  

   it 
  from 
  Pishgaehticook, 
  two 
  streams 
  meeting, 
  the 
  Indian 
  town 
  being 
  

   at 
  the 
  confluence 
  of 
  the 
  Hoosick 
  and 
  Hudson 
  according 
  to 
  him. 
  

   Neither 
  definition 
  is 
  satisfactory, 
  though 
  Spafford's 
  probably 
  ap- 
  

   proaches 
  the 
  true 
  one. 
  The 
  Delaware 
  word 
  sagachgutteen 
  means 
  

   ascent, 
  and 
  schachachgeu, 
  straight. 
  A 
  word 
  similar 
  to 
  either 
  of 
  

   these, 
  with 
  the 
  terminal 
  for 
  land 
  would 
  give 
  a 
  good 
  sense 
  for 
  a 
  high 
  

   or 
  precipitous 
  place. 
  In 
  the 
  Albany 
  charter 
  of 
  1686 
  the 
  name 
  ap- 
  

   pears 
  as 
  Schauhtecogue. 
  The 
  Skaachkook 
  Indians 
  settled 
  there 
  in 
  

   1672, 
  coming 
  from 
  New 
  England 
  and 
  eventually 
  going 
  to 
  Canada. 
  

   The 
  place 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  171 
  1 
  as 
  " 
  Skacktege, 
  Where 
  ye 
  Indians 
  

   live," 
  and 
  there 
  are 
  great 
  variations 
  in 
  the 
  spelling. 
  

  

  Scho-dack 
  was 
  sold 
  by 
  the 
  Indians 
  in 
  1650, 
  and 
  more 
  land 
  was 
  

   sold 
  by 
  them 
  in 
  1678. 
  Part 
  of 
  Schotack 
  or 
  Aepjen's 
  island 
  was 
  sold 
  

   in 
  1663. 
  Schoolcraft 
  derived 
  the 
  name 
  from 
  ischoda, 
  fire, 
  makmg 
  

   it 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  Mahican 
  council 
  fire. 
  Ruttenber 
  said 
  that 
  

   Schodac, 
  the 
  traditional 
  Mahican 
  capital, 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  Castle- 
  

   ton, 
  deriving 
  the 
  name 
  from 
  skootag, 
  tire, 
  and 
  ack, 
  place, 
  and 
  re- 
  

   ferring 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  supposed 
  council 
  fire 
  there. 
  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  derived 
  

   from 
  Esquatuck, 
  which 
  is 
  more 
  suggestive 
  of 
  the 
  word 
  for 
  fire 
  than 
  

   the 
  existing 
  name. 
  

  

  Se-mes-seer-se 
  or 
  Semesseeck 
  was 
  a 
  tract 
  opposite 
  Albany, 
  

   lying 
  between 
  Petanock 
  and 
  Negagonse. 
  It 
  was 
  also 
  written 
  

   Gesmcsseeck. 
  

  

  Sheep-schack 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  Lansingburg, 
  according 
  to 
  Rut- 
  

  

  