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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)] Indian settlement disappeared years ago. [FN-2] A detachment of one hundred men, sent out for that purpose, surprised the castle on the 29th of October, 1779, making prisoners of "Every Indian inmate." The houseless …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] 118.) By the DeWitt map of survey of 1790, Mabie's entire purchase extended east from the mouth of Aurie's Creek to a point on the east side of Schohare Creek, a distance of about four miles, the territory covering t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] of the stream. _Carenay_ or _Kaneray,_ Van der Donck's name of the castle, may easily have been from _Kanitare._ The letters _d_ and _t_ are equivalent sounds in the Mohawk tongue. The aspirate _k_ was frequently dro…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Osserion, Osserrinon_) appears to be from the Mohawk dialect of the Iroquoian stock of languages. It signifies, if its English dress gives any approximation to the sound of the original expression, 'At the beaver dam…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] As already stated, the "best expert authority" of the Bureau of Ethnology reads _Onekagoncka_ as signifying, "At the junction of the waters," and _Osserueñon,_ in any of its forms, as signifying "At the beaver-dam." …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Senatsycrossy, written by Van Curler, in 1635, as the name of a Mohawk Village west of _Canowarode,_ seems to have been in the vicinity of Fultonville, where tradition has always located one, but where General John S…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Its name appears first in French notation, in Jesuit Relations (1667), _Gandaouagué._ [FN] Contemporaneous Dutch scribes wrote it _Kaghnawaga_ and _Caughnawaga,_ and Greenhalgh, an English trader, who visited the
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] a scaffolding or platform of any kind, and _ge,_ locative, the combination yielding "At or on a bridge." Bruyas wrote _Otserage,_ "A causeway," a way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Etagragon, now so written, the name of a boundmark on the Mohawk, is of record "_Estaragoha,_ a certain rock." The locative is on the south side of the river about twenty-four miles above Schenectady. (Cal. N. Y. Lan…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] * * * * * On the Delaware. Keht-hanne, Heckewelder--_Kittan,_ Zeisberger--"The principal or greatest stream," _i. e._ of the country through which it passes, was the generic name of the Delaware River, and _Lenapewih…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] to Trenton are fourteen considerable rifts, yet all passable in the long flat boats used in the navigation of these parts, some carrying 500 or 600 bushels of wheat." _Meggeckesson_ (Col. Hist. N. Y., xii, 225) was t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] They were a milder and less barbaric people than the Iroquoian tribes, with whom they had little affinity and with whom they were almost constantly in conflict until they were broken up by the incoming tide of Europe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-2] "_Guwam;_ modifications, _Choam, Schawan._ The stem appears to be _Shawano,_ 'South,' 'Coming from the south,' or from salt water." (Brinton.)
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] or junction of the Lehigh Branch; the latter was on Minnisink Plains in New Jersey, about eight miles south of Port Jervis, Orange County. It was obviously known to the Dutch long before Van der Donck wrote the name.…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Brinton wrote: "From investigation among living Delawares, _Minsi,_ properly _Minsiu,_ formerly _Min-assin-iu,_ means 'People of the stony country,' or briefly, 'Mountaineers.' It is the synthesis of _Minthiu,_ 'To b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] except by extension to it. Peenpack, (Paan, Paen, Pien, Penn) is given, _traditionally,_ as the name of a "Small knoll or rise of ground, some fifty or sixty rods long, ten wide, and about twenty feet high above the …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Sokapach, traditionally the name of a spring in Deerpark, means, "A spring." It is an equivalent of _Sókapeék,_ "A spring or pool." Neversink, the name quoted as that of the stream flowing to the Delaware at Carpente…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] town of Mamakating, and more recently, by local authority, at or near what is known as the "Manarse Smith Spring," otherwise as the "Great Yaugh Huys Fontaine," or Great Hunting House Spring. [FN-2] The meaning of th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] entry: "The Beaver Kill or Whitenaughwemack." The date is 1785. The orthography bears evidence of many years' corruption. It may have been shortened to Willewemock and Willemoc, and stand for _Wilamochk,_ "Good, rich…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Mag., Second Series, 3, 49.) The lands spoken of were the recognized territorial possession of the chief ruler of the nation or tribe. The "squaw-sachem" [FN-3] may have held the title by succession or as the wife of…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Gatschet, of the Bureau of Ethnology, wrote me: "The Bashas, Bashebas and Betsebas of old explorers of the coast of Maine, I explain by _pe'sks,_ 'one,' and _a'pi,_ 'man,' or person--'First man in the land.'" [FN-3] …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN] "The first well-beaten path that connected the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, and subsequently the first rude wagon road leading from Cochecton through Little Meadows, in Salem township, and across Moosic Moun…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Y., iv, 177.) In the Treaty of Easton, 1758, the Indian title to land conveyed to New Jersey is described: "Beginning at the Station Point between the Province of New Jersey and New York, at the most northerly end of…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] interpretation, "Low land." [FN-1] The Indian town spoken of was established in 1744, although its site was previously occupied by Indian hunting houses or huts for residences while on hunting expeditions. In Col. Ms…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] 41 degrees 40 minutes), as recognized in the Treaty of Easton. (See Pompton.) From its association
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] with the complete published volume of proceedings. The HTML and e-book versions of the article have hyperlinks to the names indexed.} {Transcriber's Note: Some of the original index entries are incorrect. The correct…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Comae 92 Commoenapa 105 Connecticut 80 Copake 59 Cronomer's Hill 130 Cumsequ-ogue 81 Cussqunsuck 94 Cutchogue 84 Dans Kamer 183 {138} DeKay, Colonel Thomas 232 Delaware River 219 Delawares, or Lenni-Lenape 219 Di-ono…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Ganasnix 173 Gentge-kamike 183 {138} German Flats 217 Gesmesseecks 61 Glens Falls 136 {186} Gowanus 90 Greenwich Village 17 Hackingsack 104 Hahnakrois 177 Hashamomuck 99 Hashdisch 140 Haverstraw 124 Hoboken 107 Hog's…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Namenock 222 Namke 85 Nanichiestawack 35 Nannakans 28 Nanapenahaken 49 Nanoseck 161 Napanoch 167 Napeak 76 Narranshaw 116 Narratschoan Errata Narrioch 90 Navers-ing 165 Navish 28 Nawas-ink 124 Nepeneck 224 Nepah-komu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Panhoosick 67 Paanpaach (Troy) 63 Papinemen 19 Paquapick 111 Pasgatikook 172 Paskaecq 173 Passaic 111 Passapenoc 61 Patchogue 81 Pattkoke 55 Peakadasank 146 Peconic 83 Peekskill 30 Peenpack 225 Peningo 33 Peppineghek…