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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  the 
  proper 
  trail. 
  A 
  name 
  for 
  West 
  creek 
  in 
  1745, 
  and 
  also 
  written 
  

   Ganontacharage. 
  Much 
  like 
  the 
  last. 
  

  

  Manck-at-a- 
  wan-gum, 
  red 
  bank, 
  mentioned 
  in 
  the 
  journals 
  of 
  

   1779 
  and 
  opposite 
  Barton. 
  It 
  was 
  then 
  a 
  ruined 
  place, 
  sometimes 
  

   called 
  the 
  Fitzgerald 
  farm. 
  Macktowanuck 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  several 
  forms. 
  

   Delaware 
  names 
  began 
  to 
  appear 
  in 
  that 
  region 
  in 
  the 
  18th 
  century, 
  

   due 
  to 
  migration. 
  

  

  Nan'-ti-coke 
  creek. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  removed 
  the 
  Nanticokes 
  several 
  

   times, 
  and 
  thus 
  the 
  name 
  appears 
  in 
  various 
  places. 
  

  

  On-on-ti-o'-gas, 
  subdued 
  by 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  Seneca 
  

   county. 
  Gen. 
  J. 
  S. 
  Clark 
  thought 
  they 
  originally 
  lived 
  at 
  Spanish 
  

   hill, 
  Waverly. 
  Onontioga 
  would 
  mean 
  great 
  hill 
  at 
  the 
  river 
  forks; 
  

   otherwise 
  great 
  hill 
  at 
  Tioga. 
  

  

  O-we'-go, 
  where 
  the 
  valley 
  widens, 
  according 
  to 
  Morgan. 
  It 
  has 
  

   also 
  been 
  erroneously 
  defined 
  swift 
  water, 
  as 
  though 
  from 
  Cana- 
  

   waga. 
  The 
  town 
  had 
  several 
  sites 
  near 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  creek, 
  and 
  

   was 
  burned 
  in 
  1779 
  to 
  celebrate 
  the 
  union 
  of 
  Sullivan's 
  and 
  Clin- 
  

   ton's 
  armies. 
  Owego 
  was 
  an 
  early 
  form, 
  reasonably 
  persistent. 
  It 
  

   was 
  thus 
  written 
  in 
  Conrad 
  Weiser's 
  journal 
  of 
  1737, 
  and 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  

   later 
  Moravian 
  journals. 
  

  

  She-ag'-gen 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  on 
  Pouchot's 
  map, 
  and 
  was 
  

   probably 
  Theaggen 
  or 
  Tioga, 
  though 
  it 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  Seshequin, 
  

   a 
  little 
  below. 
  

  

  Susquehanna 
  river 
  has 
  been 
  sufficiently 
  noticed. 
  

  

  Ti-a-tach'-schi-un'-ge 
  was 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  name 
  for 
  Catatunk 
  creek, 
  

   mentioned 
  in 
  Spangenberg's 
  journal 
  of 
  1745. 
  Having 
  Iroquois 
  

   guides 
  his 
  New 
  York 
  names 
  are 
  in 
  that 
  language 
  but 
  in 
  a 
  German 
  

   form. 
  

  

  Ti-o'-ga, 
  at 
  the 
  forks, 
  being 
  a 
  town 
  at 
  the 
  point 
  formed 
  by 
  the 
  

   Chemung 
  and 
  Susquehanna 
  rivers. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  improperly 
  trans- 
  

   lated 
  gate. 
  The 
  name 
  is 
  Iroquois, 
  though 
  they 
  placed 
  a 
  Delaware 
  

   village 
  there. 
  

  

  Wap-pa-sen-ing 
  creek 
  enters 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  at 
  Nichols. 
  Spaf- 
  

   ford 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  Wappa-suning, 
  or 
  Wappesena 
  creek, 
  comes 
  in 
  on 
  

   the 
  south 
  side 
  from 
  Pennsylvania." 
  This 
  Delaware 
  name 
  seems 
  

   from 
  wapanneu, 
  east, 
  though, 
  other 
  derivations 
  might 
  be 
  suggested. 
  

   It 
  enters 
  the 
  river 
  at 
  the 
  left 
  bank, 
  which 
  is 
  generally 
  the 
  east 
  side. 
  

  

  