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  STEUBEN 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  Ca-na-ca-de-a 
  creek 
  at 
  Hornellsville 
  is 
  Canacadoa 
  on 
  some 
  maps. 
  

  

  In 
  1775 
  some 
  Cayugas 
  came 
  to 
  Philadelphia 
  from 
  Canasadego, 
  

   a 
  village 
  on 
  the 
  Cayuga 
  branch 
  or 
  Chemung 
  river. 
  General 
  Clark 
  

   thought 
  this 
  might 
  be 
  an 
  offshoot 
  from 
  the 
  Seneca 
  castle 
  of 
  Kana- 
  

   desaga. 
  Though 
  the 
  name 
  suggests 
  this 
  it 
  is 
  one 
  occurring 
  else- 
  

   where, 
  and 
  these 
  Indians 
  were 
  Cayugas. 
  As 
  it 
  stands 
  the 
  name 
  

   is 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  chief 
  from 
  whom 
  the 
  place 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  called. 
  As 
  

   Canassatego 
  it 
  thus 
  occurred 
  among 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  and 
  Senecas, 
  

   and 
  probably 
  others, 
  being 
  interpreted 
  upsetting 
  a 
  house 
  once 
  set 
  

   in 
  order. 
  Cornplanter's 
  town 
  resembled 
  this 
  in 
  name, 
  being 
  Jenne- 
  

   sadego, 
  burnt 
  houses. 
  In 
  1699 
  was 
  mentioned 
  Canessedage 
  or 
  

   " 
  Canosodage, 
  a 
  Castle 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  praying 
  Indians,'' 
  near 
  Mon- 
  

   treal. 
  Ganasadaga, 
  side 
  hill, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  Lake 
  St 
  Fran- 
  

   cis, 
  and 
  Kanesadakeh, 
  on 
  the 
  hillside, 
  is 
  Hale's 
  name 
  for 
  an 
  early 
  

   Iroquois 
  town. 
  Thus 
  the 
  name 
  is 
  probably 
  correct 
  as 
  it 
  stands, 
  the 
  

   meaning 
  depending 
  on 
  slight 
  variations 
  in 
  sound, 
  not 
  well 
  pre- 
  

   served 
  in 
  writing, 
  yet 
  of 
  importance. 
  

  

  Ca-na-se-ra'-ga 
  creek 
  rises 
  in 
  this 
  county. 
  

  

  Ca-nis-te'-o, 
  board 
  on 
  water, 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  town, 
  lake 
  and 
  

   river. 
  

  

  Ca-taw'-ba 
  is 
  a 
  southern 
  name 
  introduced 
  here. 
  There 
  was 
  a 
  

   long 
  war 
  between 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  Catawbas. 
  

  

  Che-mung' 
  river, 
  big 
  horn. 
  Conongue, 
  horn 
  in 
  the 
  water, 
  is 
  

   nearly 
  the 
  same. 
  The 
  name 
  properly 
  belongs 
  to 
  one 
  place 
  on 
  the 
  

   river. 
  

  

  Con-hoc'-ton 
  river, 
  trees 
  in 
  the 
  water. 
  CohoctQn 
  is 
  now 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  a 
  town. 
  Maxwell 
  gives 
  this 
  meaning 
  but 
  says 
  it 
  was 
  the 
  con- 
  

   clusion 
  of 
  a 
  longer 
  name, 
  meaning 
  stream 
  rising 
  in 
  black 
  alder 
  

   swamp, 
  with 
  trees 
  hanging 
  over 
  it. 
  

  

  Do-na'-ta-gwen-da, 
  opening 
  in 
  an 
  opening. 
  Bath. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  good 
  

   description 
  of 
  one 
  valley 
  opening 
  into 
  another. 
  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  

   written 
  Ta-nigh-na-qttan-da. 
  

  

  Gach-toch-wa-wimk, 
  a 
  Delaware 
  town 
  near 
  the 
  confluence 
  of 
  the 
  

   Conhocton 
  and 
  Tioga 
  'rivers 
  in 
  1767. 
  There 
  are 
  many 
  Delaware 
  

   1 
  names 
  of 
  that 
  period 
  on 
  these 
  rivers, 
  and 
  the 
  German 
  rse 
  of 
  letters 
  

   must 
  be 
  remembered. 
  

  

  