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Title: Footprints of the red men. Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ruttenber, Edward Manning, 1825-1907
Subjects: Indians of North America -- New York Names, Indian -- North America Names, Geographical -- New York (State)
Publisher: (Newburgh, N.Y., Newburgh journal print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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,and it is claimed that French traders visited the river, in 1540, andestablished a chateau on Castle- Island, at Albany. and called the ^ Moliegans is an anglicism primarily applied to the small band of Pe-quots under Uncas. (Trumbull.) While of the same linguistic stock,neither the name or the history of Uncass clan should be confused withthat of the Mahicani of Hudsons River. * Introduced by the Dutch—Kastecl. The Indians had no such word.The Delawares called a house or hut or a town that was palisaded, Moenach,and Zeisberger used the same word for fence —an inclosure palisadedaround. Eliot wrote Wonkonons, fort. ^ It is claimed that the walls of this fort were found by Hendrick Chris-tiansen, in i6t4; that they were measured by him and found to cover an areaof 58 feet; that the fort was restored by the Dutch and occupied by themuntil they were driven out by a freshet, occasioned by the breaking up of theice in the river in the spring of 1617; that the Dutch then built what was
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HUDSONS RIVER, 1609. From Hudsons Chart.) HUDSON S RIVER AND ITS ISLANDS. 1$ river Norumbega. It may be conceded that possibly Frenchtraders did have a post on Castle Island, but Norumbega wasobviously conferred on a wide district of country. It is an Abnakiterm and belonged to the dialect spoken in Maine, where it becamemore or less familiar to French traders as early as 1535. Thatthose traders did locate trading posts on the Penobscot, and thatChamplain searched for their remains in 1604, are facts of record.The name means Quiet or * Still Water, It would probablybe applicable to that section of Hudsons River known as Still-water, north of Albany, but the evidence is wanted that it was soapplied. Had it been applied by the tribes to any place on HudsonsRiver, it would have remained as certainly as Menate remained atNew York. Manhattan, now so written, does not appear in the Journal ofHudsons exploration of the river in 1609. On a Spanish-Englishmap of 1610, Made for James I, and sen

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