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51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Magazine of American History, and may be repeated on that authority, viz:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oshaquememus, chief of a village, near the point where the Beaver-dam Brook empties into Murderers' Creek near Campbell Hall; Moshopuck, on the flats now known as... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A tract of land called Wawayanda, in the county of Ulster, containing by estimation about five thousand acres, more or less, lying about thirty miles backward in the woods from Hudson's River. (Land Papers, 56.) In February of the same year the parties filed a second petition fo... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Within a musket-shot of where DeKay lived. The reference was to the homestead house of Col. Thomas DeKay, who was then dead since 1758. The foundation of the house remains and its site is well known. In adjusting the boundary line between New York and New Jersey it was cut off f... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Winding around many times. It is a generic combination met in several forms--_Wawau,_ Lenape; _Wohwayen,_ Moh.; [FN] _Wawai,_ Shawano; _Wawy, Wawi, Wawei,_ etc., on the North-central-Hudson, as in _Waweiqate-pek-ook,_ Greene County, and _Wawayachton-ock,_ Dutchess County. Dr. Al... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Trumbull.) _Wowoaushin,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It winds about. (Eliot.) _Woweeyouchwan._"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It flows circuitously, winds about."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "when he was a young man; that the Indians"
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wandering River for many years. The patented lands are on this stream. Its name, Long-house Creek, was, no doubt, from one of the peculiar dwellings constructed by the Indians known as a Long House, [FN] which probably stood on or near the stream, and was occupied by the clan wh... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A field appropriated for holding dances, may reasonably have been the Indian name of the plateau adjoining the rocky point, at the head of Newburgh Bay, which, from very early times, has been known as _The Dans Kamer_ (Dance Chamber), a designation which appears of record first ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Large Dans Kamer and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little Dans Kamer,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at a fall called Arackook and running thence northwesterly on the east side of Paltz Creek until it comes to Kachawaweek. The petitioner for the tract was Robert Sanders, a noted interpreter, who renewed his petition in 1702, calling the tract Oghgotacton, and presente... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strong, and _Sawkin_ may be an equivalent of Heckewelder's _Saucon,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Outlet, or mouth of a river, pond, etc. Wallkill, the name of the stream as now written, is an Anglicism of Dutch _Waal,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adjoining Shawangung, Nescotack and the Palze. [FN-6] In several other patent descriptions the locative is further identified by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and finally (1723) by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "South --South Mountain, South Water, South Place. [FN-8] The latter is possible, _i. e._ a place lying south of Nescotack, as in the sentence:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Schawangung, Nescotack, and the Paltz. From the topography of the locative, however, Mr. Will... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land lying about six or seven miles beyond ye Town where ye Walloons dwell, upon ye same creek; ye name of ye place is Chauwanghungh and Nescotack, two small parcels of land lying together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Comprehending all those lands, meadows and woo... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacobus Bruyn. 1724."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The trouble with it is that there is no such word as _Shawen,_ meaning"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "White in any Algonquian dialect, and no such word as _Gunk,_ meaning"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rocks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Proceedings Ulster Co. Hist. Soc."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great, strong, etc., and _Towatawik,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wilderness --the great wilderness, or uninhabited district. _Gatawanuk_ seems to be from _Kitchi,_"
},
{
"from"... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A tract of land by the Indians called Nescotack and by the Christians Guilford. (N. Y. Land Papers, 29, 30.) Guilford was known for many years as Guilford Church, immediately west of Shawongunk. The actual location of the name, however, is claimed for a hamlet now called Liberty... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The place of beeches, from _Schauwemi,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beech wood ; but seems to be an equivalent of Moh. _Wesauwemisk,_ a species of oak with yellow bark used for dyeing. _Wisaminschi,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yellow-wood tree."
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sassafras (Zeisb.); but _Wanachk_ may and probably does stand for _Wonachk,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The tip or extremity of anything, and _-sing_ means"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Near,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "laid out for ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Extending from the Paltz, _i. e._ from the southeast boundmark of the Paltz Patent on the Hudson, now known as Blue Point (see Magaat-Ramis), south"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[FN-1] Apparently the general boundaries were the line of the Paltz Patent on the north,... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A pond or pool, and _Tanze,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sharp or offensive to the taste. The name was transferred to this pond from the pond first bearing it in the town of Greenville, Orange County, in changing the northwest line of the Evans Patent. (See Peakad... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Traps,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thence southwesterly all along said hills and the river Peakadasank to a water-pond lying on said hills called Meretange. The name is preserved in two streams known as the Big and the Little Pachanasink, in Orange County, and in Ulster County as the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Known by the Indian name of Pacanasink, now in the town of Shawongunk, and also a tract"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Known by the Indian name of Shensechonck,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The high bald rocks ; with locative _-ing,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At (or on) the high bald rocks."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At (or on) a place of split stones. Many of the split rocks thrown off from the mountain lie in the bed of the stream, in places utilized for crossing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are rocks in it, so that it is easy to get across."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which forms the southwest boundmark of the Paltz Patent, so known, now generally called locally, Paltz Point, and widely known as Mohunk. The hill is a point of rock formation on the Shawongunk range. It rises about 1,000 feet above the plain below and is crowned by an apex whic... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These are to certify, that the inhabitants of the town of New Paltz, being desirous that the first station of their patent, named Moggonck, might be kept in remembrance, did desire us, Joseph Horsbrouck, John Hardenburgh, and Roeloff Elting, Esqs., Justices of the Peace, to acco... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great tree, explained by Dr. Trumbull:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From _Mogki,_ 'Great,' and _-unk,_ 'A tree while standing.' It is met as the name of a boundmark on the Connecticut, and on the east side of the Hudson, within forty miles of the locative here, _... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Juffrou's Hook, in the Long Reach, on the Great River (called in Indian Magaat-Ramis). (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 15.) Juffrouw's Hook is now known as Blue Point. It is about two miles north of Milton-on-the-Hudson, and takes its modern name from the color of the rock which projec... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hole, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open space, as _Taw-álachg-at,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open space, _Sag-álachg-at,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So deep the hole. The verb substantive suffix _-aque,_ or _-ake_ (_qu_ the sou... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inland water ) in the town of Lloyd. The orthography disguises the original, which may have been a pronunciation of _Achsün_ (Minsi),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stone, as in _Otstónwakin_, read by Reichel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A high rock,... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mill Stream."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "New World (Leyden edition):"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This reach [Vischer's, covering Newburgh Bay] extends to another narrow pass, where, on the west side of the river, there is a point of land juts out ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Point of a small hook, or angle. The local interpretation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Canoe harbor, is not in the name, except inferentially from the fact that the cove was a favorite landing place for canoes. [FN-1] After the erection of a stockaded redoubt ther... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They use, beside, football play, which women and boys do much play at. They have their goals as ours, only they never fight and pull each other down. There was a famous Tennis Court (Dutch _Kaatsbaan_) in the town of Saugerties, which seems to have been there long before the Dut... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On this day (vizt 25th) the towne formerly called Sopez was named Kingston."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "says the record, may be from Natick _Nohōōsik,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pointed or tapering. The Dutch called it"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sawyer's little Kill. The original appears first of record in Kregier's Journal of the Second Esopus War (1663),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They were at Zager's Kiletje ;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Sager's little Kill ;"
},
{
"from": ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "including the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the subsequent treaty (1665) with Governor Nicolls the ceded district is described as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A certain parcel of land lying and being to the west or southwest of a certain creek or ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Journal of the Second Esopus War, was a palisaded village and the largest settlement of the Esopus Indians. He made no reference to a stream or to a ravine, but did note that he was obliged to pass over swamps, frequent kills, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "that ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shallow, low water"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land lying on both sides of Rondout Kill, or river, and known by the name of Moggewarsinck, in survey for Henry Beekman, 1685--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Land on this side of Rondout Kill named _Ragowasinck,_ from the limits of Frederick Hussay, to a kill that r... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At a place where the stream winds, bends, twists, or eddies around a point or promontory. This explanation is fully sustained by the topography. Hon. Th. E. Benedict writes me:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Rondout at that point (the corner of the Anna Beake Pat... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fork, division, separation, that which forks or divides, or comes together in the form of a fork; literally,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Fork. _Lechauwak,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fork ; _Lechau-hanne,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At a point or promontory."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mattekah-onk Kill,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Large, with the related meaning of terrible, and _Anakakan,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rushes, or sharp rushes. _Amangak_ is from... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A piece of land; it lyeth almost behind Marbletown. It is not the name of the stream but of a place that was at or near some other place; probably from _Koghksuhksing,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Near a high place."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rapid water, as has been suggested, but is probably from _Schindak,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hemlock woods --_Schindak-ing,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the hemlock woods,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At ye Esopus at ye Mumbac... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walnut Hill."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kil of the Katarakts, has come down from a very early date in _Katskil._ On Van der Donck's map of 1656 it is written _Kats Kill,_ but he never wrote Kil with two l's. Older than Van der Donck's map it evidently was from the frequent reference to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Place of the greatest overflow, from the overflow of the stream which forms a marsh, which, however, the name describes as a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Moist, boggy meadow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Place where two streams meet, means,"
},
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the bend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "etc."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mud --_Assiskew-aughk-ûk,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At (or on) a muddy place."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "near Catskill. The description reads:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A place on the northeast side of a brook called Kiskatamenakook, on the west side of a hill called Waweantepakoak. (Land Papers, 242.) The location has not been ascertained. _Antpéch_ (_Antpek,_ Zei... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A certain tract by a place called Kiskatammeeche, beginning at a turn of Catrick's Kill ten chains below where Kiskatammeeche Kill watereth into Catrick's Kill, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Under the great mountain called Kiskatameck. Dr. Trumbull wrote:"
},
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The suffix _-assin,_ probably stands for _Assin,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stone, but the prefix is unintelligible. _Sapanak-ock_ means,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Place of wild potatoes, or bulbous roots. (See Passapenoc.) Barrent's is from B... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cock-crowing"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Situated on the west side of the North River, stretching in length from a little above Beeren Island along the river upward to Smack's Island, and in width two days' journey inland."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clear, bright, light, clearly, brightly, and Berg means"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at the northernmost fall of water in a certain brook, called by the Indians Nepestekoak"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The corner of a neck of land having a fresh water river running to the east of it. In another paper the neck is located"
},
{
"fro... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right opposite [Fort Orange] is the fort of the Maykans which they built against their enemies the Maquas [Mohawks]."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right opposite means"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An out-pour of water, the mouth of the stream serving... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_Matha_ is an orthography of _Macha_ (Stockbridge, _Naukhu_; Del. _Lechau_), with locative _ûk,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the fork"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oat straw."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A tract of land called _Sara... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From _Assarat,_ 'Sparkling water,' and _Oga,_ 'place,' 'the place of the sparkling water,' the reference being to the mineral springs, one of which."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "High Rock,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With regard to the Mahican name _Amissohaendiek_ or _Amissohaendick_ (whichever it is) I cannot say much, my knowledge of the Algonquin dialects not being sufficient to warrant me in venturing on etymologies. I remark, however, that 'beaver' in Mahican, as in several other Algon... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At a place called the Still Water, so named for that the water passeth so slowly as not to be discovered, yet at a little distance both above and below is disturbed and rageth as in a sea, occasioned by great rocks and great falls therein."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Outlet, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mouth of a river,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pouring out, and _-daga,_ a softened form of _-take,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the, the composition meaning, literally,"
},
{
"from":... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rapid river,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swift current. (J. B. N. Hewitt.) A little valley at the junction of the stream with the Hudson at Warrensburgh, dignified by the name of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indian Pass, bears the record name of _T... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beautiful plain,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spanish Trefoil."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where the lake mouths itself out. Horatio Hale wrote me:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lake, in Iroquois, is, in the French missionary spelling, _Kaniatare,_ the word being sounded as in Italian. _Mouth_ is _Osa,_ whence (writes the Rev. J. A. Cuoq in his Lexique de... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They eat trees, _i. e._ people Who eat the bark of certain trees for food, presumably from the climatic difficulty in raising corn in the latitude in which they lived. [FN-2] Horatio Hale analyzed the name:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From _Adi,_ 'they'; _aronda,_... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A nation the most warlike, the most polished, and the most attached to the French."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Winter. It may also mean"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the Beaver-dam, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the country of Beaver-dams. _Kohseraka_ may be a form of _Hochelaga_ or _Ochseraga._ _Osera_ means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The French invaded the valley in 1666, and burned all the castles of the early period, and the tribes retreated to the north side of river and established themselves, the first at Caughnawaga; the second about one and one-half mi... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "where he passed the night, spent one hour in walking to the crossing-place, crossed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "resumed his march on the north side"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and after marching ten miles arrived,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Dutch)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which had frozen over the kill, or say one and one-half English miles, and in that distance passed"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was near the river obviously. Walking on the ice"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Country, wrote:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was shown a parcel of flint-stones with which they make a fire when in the forest. These stones would do very well for flint-lock guns."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ha... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Independent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A long walk,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which passed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the foot of their village --a brook or creek which was swollen by rains into a torrent, and from which, on the later recedence of the water, he recovered the remains of the body of his companion, Rene Goupil, who had bee... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From _Kaho,_ a boat or ship, commemorative of Hudson's advent at Half-Moon Point in 1609. Beauchamp repeated from Morgan:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A shipwrecked canoe, and, in another connection:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From _Kaho,_ a torre... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lying at a place called _Neastegaione,_ . . . known by the name of _Kanistegaione._ West of Schenectady the Mohawk is a succession of rapids. At or below Schenectady it makes a bend to the northeast in the form of a crescent, around which the water flows in a sluggish current. A... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great plain, and as such was their name for Wyoming, Pa., where it is written _Schahandoanah_ (Col. Hist. N. Y., vi, 48), and _Skehandowana_ (Reichel). Scanandanani, Schenondehowe, Skenandoah, and Shanandoah, are among other forms met in application. Skonowe is followed on Van d... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Opposite a place called Jucktumunda, that is ye stone houses, being a hollow rock on ye river bank where ye Indians generally lie under when they travel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 110.) The name is probably an equivalent of Bruyas' _Onue... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Cal. N. Y. Land Papers), describes a hill or mountain--_Ononté_--with adjective termination _es_ or _ese,_ meaning"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_Jonondese,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a high hil... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A space between, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "an intervale, or valley, a very proper name for Schohare Valley. It is a generic composition and was also employed in connection with the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upper (Third) Mohawk Castle"
},... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lying upon Trinderogues (Schohare) creek, on both sides, made over to John Petersen Mabie by _Roode,_ the Indian, in his life time, [FN] principal sachem, by and with the consent of the rest of the Praying Indian Castle in the Mohawk country (Land Papers, 61), is further referre... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the south side of Mohawk's river, about two miles above Fort Hunter, . . . beginning at a certain brook called by the Indians Oghrackie, otherwise known as Arie's creek, where it falls into Maquas river. (N. Y. Land Papers, 164.) In other words the name was that of a place at... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of or pertaining to the sea."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the Bureau of Ethnology reads _Onekagoncka_ as signifying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the junction of the waters, and _Osserueñon,_ in any of its forms, as signifying"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the beaver-dam. Possibly the names might b... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which means the same thing. Rev. Megapolensis wrote, in 1644:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These [the Tortoise tribe] have built a fort of palisades and call their castle _Assarue._ It was not an old castle when Van Curler visited it in 1635, or when Father Jogues ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The most salient points in its history are in connection with its wars with the French and with the labors of the Jesuit missionaries, who, after the murder of Father Jogues and the destruction of the castle in which he suffered and the peace of 1667, were very successful, so mu... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at a great rock, lying on the west side of a creek, called by the Indians Caniadutta. (Cal. Land Papers, 270.) The name was that of the rock, from which it was extended to the stream. It was probably a rock of the calciferous sandstone type containing garnets, quartz a... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fourth Castle and known later as the castle of the Wolf tribe, and as the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Upper Mohawk Castle, was described by Van Curler as composed of fifty-five houses"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It stood in a valley evidently, as ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At or on a bridge. Bruyas wrote _Otserage,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A causeway,"
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is the record name of a creek in Schohare County. J. B. N. Hewitt read it from _Onehya_ (_Onne'ja,_ Bruyas),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; _Oneyagine,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the broken stone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--"... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prairie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The principal or greatest stream, _i. e._ of the country through which it passes, was the generic name of the Delaware River, and _Lenapewihittuck,_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The river or stream of the Lenape... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Original people, or people born of the earth on which they lived, who were recognized, at the time of the discovery, as the head or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grandfather of the Algonquian nations. From their principal seat on the tide-waters of the Delaware, and... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Called by the Indians Lamas-Sepos, or Fish Kill, because they caught the shad there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The division or branch of a stream --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where the stream divides or separates."
}
] |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Minnessinck ofte t' Landt van Bacham, which may be read, constructively,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indians inhabiting the back or upper lands, or the highlands. [FN] Heckewelder wrote:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Minsi, which we have corrupt... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Minnessinck ofte t' Landt Van Bacham, apparently received some of its letters from the engraver of the map. _Ofte_--Dutch and Old Saxon, _av_--English _of_--was probably used in the sense of identity or equivalency. Bacham--Dutch, _bak;_ Old High-German, _Bahhoham_--describes"
... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Great Mennissincks Island --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Great Island of the Mennisinks --is probably an equivalent of _Menach'henak_ (Minsi) meaning"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Islands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fishing p... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Called and known by the name of Magockomack and Magatsoot --so entered in petition of Philip French for Minisink Patent in 1703, is noted in petition of Ebenezer Wilson (same patent), in 1702,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beginning on the northwest side of the mout... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great, large ; _soot, sók, sóhk, sauk,_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pouring out,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A certain tract of land at a place called Maghaghkamieck, which"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Place was granted, in 1697, to ... |
51217 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Place in the sense of a limited enclosed, or occupied space;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Generally, wrote Dr. Trumbull,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An enclosure, natural or artificial, such as a house or other building, a village, or planted field... |
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