[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] (see in Part 3). and early 1760s. Most of the Delawares living in these towns moved MONTOUR (Broome and Schuyler counties). The Town of Montour and the Village of Montour Falls bear the name of Catherine, sister of Esther Montour (see Queen Esther below) who became the leader of Catherine’s Town in Seneca Country at Montour Falls. A road named Montour Street located in the City of Binghamton also bears the family surname. OUAQUAGA (Broome County). Although Ouaquaga is often identified as an Iroquois word, the similar-looking Munsee place name Anguagekonk (see the entry for Waughkonk in New York in Part 1) appeared in a colonial document dated March 12, 1702 (New York State Library, Indorsed Land Papers, Book 3:40). A variant spelling of Ouaquaga adorns places named Oquaga (see in New York in Part 1) across the divide separating the Susquehanna and Delaware drainages in the valley of the North Branch of the Delaware River. The hamlet of Ouaquaga, Ouaquaga Road, and four-milelong Ouaquaga Creek are located on the west side of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River in the Town of Colesville. These places bear the name of a major multi-ethnic Indian town spread out along the broad stretch of flats on the North Branch’s east bank in and around the present-day town center of Windsor. Ouaquaga became a major refugee settlement for displaced Esopus and other Munsee Indians during the 1740s. The place subsequently served as a major staging area for Indian and Tory raiding parties going against frontier settlements in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. A column of New York militia burned Ouaquaga and most of the other towns in the area between October 8 and 10, 1778. Although many Indians tried to return to their homes in the area after the end of the war, hostile receptions by American neighbors forced most to abandon the effort and join many of their compatriots gathered together at Cattaraugus (see above). The group of more than 100 refugees noted as Ouaquaga Indians from Cattaraugus that settled at the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario during the first decade of the 1800s lost their separate identity sometime thereafter. COHOCTON (Livingston and Steuben counties). Noting similarities to Cochecton (see in New York in Part 1) and Coshocton (see in Ohio below), writers have traced Cohocton’s possible etymological origins to Delaware and Iroquois (ga-ha-to, “log floating on water”) sources. The Cohocton River is a 60-mile-long stream that rises just south of the Finger Lakes in Livingston County. From there, it flows into Steuben County, where it enters the Town of Cohocton (established in 1812) and runs past the hamlet of North Cohocton, the site of a post office opened in 1828 just a mile from the riverside community of Atlanta. Farther on, the river enters the hamlet of Cohocton, founded around 1794 and known during its early years as Liberty. It then continues south and east past the City of Bath to Painted Post (see below), where the Cohocton River joins with the Tioga River (see below) to form the Chemung River (see above) at the City of Corning. Corning was the site of the Delaware Indian town of Assinisink (see Sing Sing below and Ossining in New York in Part 1 above for another example of the place name), one of several communities built by Indian expatriates invited to settle around the upper reaches of the Chemung River by the Iroquois during the late 1750s. Assinisink was one of the towns visited by Christian Post during his abovementioned unsuccessful attempt to pass through the area while on a diplomatic mission to make peace with Indians farther west in 1760 (Grumet 1999). In an effort to stop attacks launched by unreconciled Delawares who failed to respond to this and other peace feelers, a mostly Mohawk column led by Metis Andrew Montour (see in Pennsylvania Central below), burned Assin- POST CREEK (Chemung County). Post Creek, a nine-mile-long places named for expatriate Delaware people in the area. QUEEN ESTHER (Chemung County). Queen Esther Drive, loKILL BUCK (Cattaraugus County). The small community of Kill cated just west of the community of South Waverly, is named for a Buck just east of the City of Salamanca in the Seneca Indian Alle- woman who became the prominent leader of a Delaware Indian gany Reservation bears the surname of the prominent Delaware community often referred to as Queen Esther’s Town after the death Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 97 of her husband, the noted Munsee leader Egohohowen, at Wilawana (see below). A sister of Andrew Montour (see in Pennsylvania Central below), daughter of French Margaret, and granddaughter of Madam Montour, Queen Esther became notorious among American colonists after she executed several prisoners taken at the battle of Wyoming (see in Pennsylvania Central below) in July 1778.