[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., iii, 48), sustained by the deed to King George in 1701. (Doc. Hist. N. Y., i, 773.) There was no conquest on the Hudson south of Cohoes Falls. Sacondaga, quoted as the name of the west branch of the Hudson, is not the name of the stream but of its mouth or outlet at Warrensburgh, Warren County. It is from Mohawk generic _Swe'ken,_ the equivalent of Lenape _Sacon_ (Zeisb.), meaning "Outlet," or "Mouth of a river," "Pouring out," and _-daga,_ a softened form of _-take,_ "At the," the composition meaning, literally, "At the outlet" or mouth of a river. (Hale.) _Ti-osar-onda,_ met in connection with the stream, means "Branch" or "Tributory stream." (Hewitt.) The reference may have been to the stream as a branch of the Hudson, or to some other stream. The stream comes down from small lakes and streams in Lewis and Hamilton counties, and is the principal northwestern affluent of the Hudson. Scharon, Scarron, Schroon, orthographies of the name now conferred on a lake and its outlet, and on a mountain range and a town in Essex County, is said to have been originally given to the lake by French officers in honor of the widow Scarron, the celebrated Madam Maintenon of the reign