[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 Rensselaer's map. Haver is Dutch, "Oat straw." (See Haverstraw.) Saratoga, now so written, was, primarily, the name of a specific place extended to a district of country lying on both sides of the Hudson, described, in a deed from the Indian owners to Cornelis van Dyk, Peter Schuyler, and others, July 26, 1683, as "A tract of land called _Sarachtogoe_" (by the Dutch), "or by the Maquas _Ochseratongue_ or _Ochsechrage,_ and by the Machicanders _Amissohaendiek,_ situated to the north of Albany, beginning at the utmost limits of the land bought from the Indians by Goose Gerritse and Philip Pieterse Schuyler deceased, there being" (_i. e._ the bound-mark) "a kil called _Tioneendehouwe,_ and reaching northward on both sides of the river to the end of the lands of _Sarachtoge,_ bordering on a kil, on the east side of the river,