Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 77 (part 2)
[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, is written Tintiagquanneck in deed of 1767 (Cal. Land Papers, 454), and by the late John W. Hasbrouck, _Tendeyachameck._ The deed orthography of 1677 is certainly wrong as there is no sound of F in Algonquian. (See Kerhonksen.) * * * * * {TN} {Unable to locate interlinear references to the following two notes which appear on this page.} [FN-1] _Saugerties_ is probably a corruption of Dutch _Zager's Kiltje,_ meaning in English, "Sawyer's little Kill." The original appears first of record in Kregier's Journal of the Second Esopus War (1663), "They were at Zager's Kiletje"; "To Sager's little Kill"; "To the Sager's Killetje." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 342, 344.) The first corruption of record also belongs to that period. It was by a Mohawk sachem who visited Esopus and at a conference converted Zager's Kiltje to Sagertjen. Some of the local Dutch followed with "de Zaagertje's." Other corruptions were numerous until the English brought in Saugerties. The original _Zager,_ however, seems to have held legal place for many years.