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occupied by Rev. Asher Wright, and still stands on Buffum 

 Street, opposite what once was the Seneca Cemetery. 



Tgah-siwa-deh, "rope ferry", over Buffalo Creek, presumably at 

 the foot of Main Street. 



Te-kise-da-ne-yont, ' 'place of the bell' ' , (Morgan) was the Seneca 

 name for the group of cabins about the Church and Mission- 

 house, on what is now Indian Church Road. 



Yo-da-nyah-gwah, "place for fishing with hook and line", Sandy 

 town on beach above Black Rock". (Marshall). 



Tos-e-o-way, a variant of "Do-sho-weh" , ' the place of bass- 

 woods" or Buffalo Creek, appears on Joseph Ellicott's map 

 of "Part of the Buffalo Creek Reservation", of 1804. 



Te-ho-se-ro-ron, is a variant of above. 



Ga-a-nun-deh-ta, Seneca name for Cazenovia Creek. (Morgan). 



Erie — The Nation of that name, the Nation of the Cat. 



Lake Erie — Do-sho-weh, "the place of bass-wood" (Morgan); 

 Teicharontiong, (Coronelli); L,ac du Chat, (Sanson); L,ac- 

 Erie, (Coronelli); O-swee-go, (1726); Sa-hi-quage, (1701); 

 Cahiquage, Swee-ge, (1760); Te-cha-ron-ki-on (1671) a 

 variant of Teicharontiong; "Kau-ha-gwa-rah-ka, i. e. A 

 Cap, now Erie", (A. Cusick); "Ga-noh-no-geh, place filled 

 up, Long Point sometimes applied to L,ake Erie", (Beau- 

 champ); L,ac Conti; Gai-gwah-geh. 



Indian Church Road — Street running from Seneca Street to Gar- 

 denville. It was so-named because beside it stood the mission 

 church of Te-kise-ne-do-yont. 



Seneca Street was at first the trail, then the road, to the Seneca 

 town, Te-kise-ne-do-yont. 



Red Jacket Parkway and Red Jacket Street were named from 

 the Chief of that name, Sa-go-ye-wat-ha. 



CHEEKTOWAGA. 



Chic ta-wau-ga, now spelled Cheektowaga was Jiik do-waah geh 

 "place of the crab-apple". (Morgan). 



Cayuga Creek, from the Cayuga village of 1780. Its Seneca 

 name was Ga-da-geh, "through the oak openings" (Morgan), 

 or Gah dah-geh, "fishing with a scoop basket", (Marshall). 



