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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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t was the Gnadensee, or Lake ofGrace, of the missionaries. Weqiiadnach means At the end of the moun-tain between which and the lake the Indian village stood. Pachquadnachwas on the opposite side of the pond; it means Clear bare mountain land.Wehtak means Wigwam place. Pishgachtigok (Pach-gat-gock, Germannotation), was about twenty miles south of Shekomeko, at the junction ofTen Mile River and the Housatenuc. It means, Where the river divides,or branches. (See Schaghticoke.) Westenhoek, noted above, is explainedin another connection. Housatonuc, in N. Y. Land Papers Owassitanuc,stands for A-wass-adene-uc, Abn.; in Delaware, Awossi, Over, over there,beyond, -actcnne, hill or mountain, with locative -uk, place, land;literally, A place beyond the hill. (Trumbull.) It is not the name ofeither the hill or the river, to which it was extended, but a verbal direction.An Indian village called Potatik by the Moravian missionaries, was also onthe Housatenuc, and is written in one form, Pateook. A
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NAMES ON THE EAST FROM MANHATTAN NORTH. 43 and comaco, house, or enclosed place—the great lodge,, or thegreat village. ^ We have the testimony of Loskiel that the occu-pants of the village were Mahicander Indians. Shenandoah (Shenandoah Corners, East Fishkill) is an Iro-quoian name of modern introduction here. It is met in place inSaratoga County and at Wyoming, Pa. (See Shannondhoi.) Stissing, now the name of a hill and of a lake one mile west ofthe village of Pine Plains, Duchess County, is probably an apheresisof Mistissing, a Great rock, and belongs to the hill, wbidh rises400 or 500 feet above the valley and is crowned with a mass ofnaked rock, described by one writer as resembling a huge bouldertransported there. Poughkeepsie, now so written, is of record in many forms ofwhich Pooghkeepesingh, 1683; Pogkeepke, 1702; Pokeapsinck,1703; Pacaksing, 1704; Poghkeepsie, 1766; Poughkeepsie, 1767,are the earlier. The locative of the name and the key to its ex-planation are clearly dete

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