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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Nes-ti-gi-o-ne 
  patent 
  was 
  granted 
  in 
  1708. 
  It 
  was 
  also 
  called 
  

   Connestigune, 
  field 
  covered 
  with 
  com. 
  

  

  Nis-ka-yu-na 
  is 
  from 
  the 
  last, 
  and 
  this 
  great 
  corn 
  land 
  extended 
  

   into 
  Albany 
  and 
  Schenectady 
  counties. 
  

  

  The 
  Saratoga 
  patent 
  was 
  called 
  Och-se-ra-ton-que 
  and 
  Och-se- 
  

   chra-ge 
  by 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  in 
  1683. 
  The 
  present 
  name 
  may 
  have 
  

   come 
  from 
  the 
  former, 
  and 
  both 
  seem 
  descriptive 
  of 
  a 
  cold 
  country. 
  

  

  O-i-o'-gue, 
  at 
  the 
  river, 
  was 
  a 
  place 
  where 
  Father 
  Jogues 
  crossed 
  

   the 
  Hudson 
  in 
  1646. 
  A 
  similar 
  name 
  was 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  Mohawk. 
  

  

  Os-sa-ra-gas 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Wood 
  creek. 
  

  

  Os-sa-ra-gue 
  closely 
  resembles 
  the 
  last, 
  and 
  was 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  fish- 
  

   ing 
  place 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson 
  in 
  1646, 
  south 
  of 
  Glens 
  Falls. 
  It 
  was 
  

   probably 
  transferred 
  to 
  a 
  new 
  fishery. 
  Oseragi 
  is 
  an 
  old 
  Mohawk 
  

   word 
  for 
  winter, 
  but 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  thought 
  this 
  name 
  meant 
  place 
  of 
  

   a 
  knife, 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  good 
  interpretation. 
  Jogues 
  mentioned 
  the 
  

   place. 
  

  

  Ots-kon-da-ra-o-go-o, 
  a 
  creek 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  

   and 
  near 
  the 
  Canastagione 
  tract. 
  It 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  Niskayuna 
  land 
  

   bought 
  in 
  1682, 
  and 
  opposite 
  the 
  tract 
  mentioned. 
  

  

  Qua-he-mis-cos 
  was 
  the 
  Mahican 
  name 
  of 
  Long 
  island, 
  near 
  

   Waterford. 
  

  

  Sa-con-da'-ga, 
  much 
  water, 
  equivalent 
  here 
  to 
  drowned 
  lands. 
  

   Spaflord 
  defined 
  it 
  swamp 
  or 
  marsh, 
  which 
  will 
  do 
  as 
  well. 
  Stone 
  

   incorrectly 
  made 
  it 
  place 
  of 
  roaring 
  water. 
  

  

  Sar-a-to'-ga. 
  - 
  A 
  great 
  many 
  forms 
  and 
  supposed 
  meanings 
  of 
  

   this 
  are 
  on 
  record. 
  Morgan 
  wrote 
  it 
  S'har-la-to'-ga, 
  without 
  a 
  defi- 
  

   nition. 
  Spaflord 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  E. 
  Williams, 
  descended 
  from 
  the 
  St 
  Regis 
  

   Indians, 
  a 
  man 
  of 
  mixed 
  blood 
  and 
  some 
  literature, 
  tells 
  me 
  that 
  

   the 
  Indian 
  phrase, 
  from 
  which 
  this 
  name 
  has 
  been 
  formed, 
  is 
  

   O-sah-rah-ka, 
  the 
  sidehills." 
  Ruttenber 
  derived 
  it 
  from 
  soragh, 
  salt, 
  

   and 
  aga, 
  place; 
  thence 
  salt 
  springs, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  erroneous. 
  School- 
  

   craft 
  thought 
  it 
  came 
  from 
  assarat, 
  sparkling 
  waters, 
  and 
  aga, 
  place. 
  

   There 
  is 
  no 
  foundation 
  for 
  this, 
  and 
  both 
  these 
  definitions 
  refer 
  to 
  

   the 
  springs, 
  while 
  Saratoga 
  was 
  originally 
  at 
  Schuylerville 
  on 
  the 
  

   Hudson. 
  Mr 
  W. 
  L. 
  Stone, 
  considering 
  this, 
  derived 
  it 
  from 
  saragh, 
  

   szvift 
  water, 
  and 
  aga, 
  a 
  place 
  or 
  people, 
  making 
  it 
  equivalent 
  to 
  

   Kayaderoga 
  and 
  Saraghoga, 
  and 
  illustrating 
  his 
  definition 
  by 
  calling 
  

   Sacondaga, 
  place 
  of 
  roaring 
  zvater; 
  Ticonderoga, 
  place 
  zvhere 
  the 
  

  

  