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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
| Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) | 50 | 5,568 | Original → |
Passages
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] On the latter, near Port Jervis, is met of record _Warin-sags-kameck,_ which is surely the equivalent of _Walina-ask-kameck,_ "A hollowing or concave site, a meadow or field." It was written by Arent Schuyler, the no…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Vernoy and Rondout kills, is of doubtful correctness, as is also his statement that it was "The council-house of all the Esopus Indians." Its location was about two (Dutch) miles from Wildwyck, or about six or seven …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Y., xiii.) Supposed to have been at LeFever's Falls in Rosendale. (Schoonmaker.) Frudyachkamik, so written in treaty--deed of 1677 as the name of a place on the Hudson at the mouth of Esopus (now Saugerties) Creek, i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] In 1683, in a survey of the Meals Patent, covering lands now included in Saugerties, it is written: "Being part of the land called Sagers," and in another, "Between Cattskill and Sager's Kill." It is also of record t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] described included other figures commemorative of the deeds of a warrior designed to be honored. Sometimes the paintings were drawn by a member of the clan or family to which the subject belonged, and sometimes by th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Its origin is, of course, uncertain. Reasonably and presumably it was a colloquial form of Katerakts Kil--reasonably, because the falls on that stream would have naturally attracted the attention of the early Dutch n…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Katarakts Kil, as it is met of record--now Judge Benson's Kauter Kil--is formed by the outlets of two small lakes lying west of the well-known Mountain House. A little below the lakes the united streams leap over a l…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] seems to be from _Quana_ (_Quinnih,_ Eliot), "Long"; _-ask,_ the radical of all names meaning grass, marsh, meadow, etc., and _-ek,_ formative--literally, "Long marsh or meadow." The early settlement at Athens was ca…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-2] He was engaged in similar work in negotiating the Esopus treaty of 1664; signed the deed for Kaniskek in 1665, and disappears of record after that date. In "History of Greene County," he is confused with Aepje…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] It was the name of a noted fishing place, now known as Black Rock, in the south part of Athens. The prefix _Macha,_ is the equivalent of _Massa_ (Natick _Mogge_), meaning "Great," and _-ameck_ is an equivalent of _-a…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] In 1718 it was given as the name of a bound-mark of a tract described as "having on the east the land called Vlackte and Coxsackie." (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 124.) _Vlackte_ (Vlakte) is Dutch for "Plain or flat," and…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] unintelligible. _Sapanak-ock_ means, "Place of wild potatoes," or bulbous roots. (See Passapenoc.) Barrent's is from Barrent Coeymans, the founder of the village of Coeymans. The earlier Dutch name was Beerin Island,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] that nation consented there, under advisement of the Dutch, to take the rank of women, _i. e._ a nation without authority to make war or sell lands. The tradition is worthless. The Dutch did make "covenants of friend…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Monemius Island, otherwise Cohoes Island and Haver Island, just below Cohoes Falls, the site of Monemius's Castle, or residence of Monemius or Moenemines, a sachem of the Mahicans in 1630, so entered on Van Rensselae…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] condition of their return, and which he described as a tract of land "called Serachtogue, lying upon Hudson's River, about forty miles above Albany," and for the protection of which Fort Saratoga was erected in 1709;…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Schoolcraft "From _Assarat,_ 'Sparkling water,' and _Oga,_ 'place,' 'the place of the sparkling water,'" the reference being to the mineral springs, one of which. "High Rock," was, traditionally, known to the Indians…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] This form is _Ochsechrage._ The 'digraph' _ch_ in this word evidently
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] (pronounced with an aspirate) became _Hochelaga,_ the well-known aboriginal name of what is now Montreal. That this name meant simply 'At the beaver-dam' is not questioned. It is rather curious, though not surprising…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] It certainly begins with the element _Amik, Amisk_ or _Amisque,_ 'Beaver,' and terminates with the locative _ck_ or _k._ The intermediate portion I am not clear about. There is probably considerable garbling of the m…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] rocks and great falls therein." (Col. Hist. N. Y., x, 194.) [FN-2] The war in which the Mahicans lost and the Mohawks gained possession of the lands here occurred in 1627, as stated in Dutch records (Doc. Hist. N. Y.…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] name of _Teohoken,_ from Iroquois generic _De-ya-oken,_ meaning "Where it forks," or "Where the stream forks or enters the Hudson." (J. B. N. Hewitt.) The little valley is described as "a picture of beauty and repose…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Between Warrensburgh and Glen's Falls the stream sweeps, in tortuous course with a wealth of rapids, eastward among the lofty hills of the Luzerne [FN-3] range of mountains, and at Glen's Falls descends about sixty f…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] district; but it may lead to the replanting of the much more expressive Iroquoian title, _Kohsarake,_ on some hill-top in the ancient wilderness. * * * * * [FN] The specific tribe called Algonquins by the French, wer…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Mohawk, the river so called--properly "the Mohawk's River," or river of the Mohawks--rises near the centre of the State and reaches the Hudson at Cohoes Falls. Its name preserves that by which the most eastern nation…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Presumably it was generations prior to the incoming of Europeans and from the discovery of the fire-producing qualities of the flint, which was certainly known to them and to other Indian nations [FN-1] in pre-histor…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Bruyas wrote in the Huron dialect, "_Okwari_, ourse (that is Bear); _Ganniagwari,_ grand ourse" (grand, glorious, superb, Bear), and in another connection, "It is the name of the Agniers," the characteristic type of …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] students of that dialect, nor any that have not been purely conjectural. One writer has read it: "From _Kaho,_ a boat or ship," commemorative of Hudson's advent at Half-Moon Point in 1609. Beauchamp repeated from Mor…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The presumption that the name was Mohawk-Iroquoian was no doubt from the general impression that the falls were primarily in a Mohawk district, but the fact is precisely the reverse. The Hudson, on both sides, was he…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Intervale-Cowass or Kohas (Coas) meadows." (Pownal's Map.) [FN-2] The name having been submitted to the Bureau of Ethnology for interpretation, the late Prof. J. W. Powell, Chief, wrote me, as the opinion of himself …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] notice particularly after 1693-4, when the Tortoise tribe retreated from Caughnawaga and located their principal town on the west side of the stream a short distance south of its junction with the Mohawk, taking with…