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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 → |
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The name, probably, describes this ridge as "High lands," an equivalent of _Esquatak_ and _Eskwatack_ on the Upper Hudson; _Ashpotag,_
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] a line from "about the Dancing Chamber" on the Hudson to Sam's Point on the Shawongunk range on the southwest, and on the west by that range and the river Peakadasank. The Peakadasank is now known as Shawangunk Kill.…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] _Awoss_ means "Beyond," surely, but must be followed by a substantive telling what it is that is "beyond." The particular features of the Shawongunk range covered by the boundary line of the deed are "The Traps," a c…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] "These are to certify, that the inhabitants of the town of New Paltz, being desirous that the first station of their patent, named Moggonck, might be kept in remembrance, did desire us, Joseph Horsbrouck, John Harden…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Locations of boundmarks were then frequently changed by patentees who desired to increase their holdings, by "Taking some Indians in a public manner to show such places as they might name to them," wrote Sir William …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Trumbull: "From _Mogki,_ 'Great,' and _-unk,_ 'A tree while standing.'" It is met as the name of a boundmark on the Connecticut, and on the east side of the Hudson, within forty miles of the locative here, _Moghongh-…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The first word, _Maggean,_ is an orthography of _Machen_ (_Meechin,_ Zeisb.; _Mashkan,_ Chippeway), meaning "Great," big, large, strong, hard, occupying chief position, etc., and the second, _-apogh,_ written in othe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] word of the Indian name, _Magaat,_ stands for _Maghaak_ (Moh.), _Machak_ (Zeisb., the hard surd mutes _k_ and _t_ exchanged), meaning "Great," large, extended, occupying chief position. The second word, _Ramis_ is ob…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Rappoos, which formed the northeast boundmark of the Paltz Patent, is specifically located in the Indian deed "Thence north [from Juffrou's Hook] along the river to the island called Rappoos, lying in the Kromme Elbo…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] A good parallel are the _Wawenocks_ of S. W. Maine, now living at St. Francis, who call themselves _Walinaki,_ or those living on a cove--'cove dwellers'--in referring to their old home on the Atlantic coast near Por…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] On the latter, near Port Jervis, is met of record _Warin-sags-kameck,_ which is surely the equivalent of _Walina-ask-kameck,_ "A hollowing or concave site, a meadow or field." It was written by Arent Schuyler, the no…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Vernoy and Rondout kills, is of doubtful correctness, as is also his statement that it was "The council-house of all the Esopus Indians." Its location was about two (Dutch) miles from Wildwyck, or about six or seven …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[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, i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] In 1683, in a survey of the Meals Patent, covering lands now included in Saugerties, it is written: "Being part of the land called Sagers," and in another, "Between Cattskill and Sager's Kill." It is also of record t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] described included other figures commemorative of the deeds of a warrior designed to be honored. Sometimes the paintings were drawn by a member of the clan or family to which the subject belonged, and sometimes by th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Its origin is, of course, uncertain. Reasonably and presumably it was a colloquial form of Katerakts Kil--reasonably, because the falls on that stream would have naturally attracted the attention of the early Dutch n…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Katarakts Kil, as it is met of record--now Judge Benson's Kauter Kil--is formed by the outlets of two small lakes lying west of the well-known Mountain House. A little below the lakes the united streams leap over a l…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] seems to be from _Quana_ (_Quinnih,_ Eliot), "Long"; _-ask,_ the radical of all names meaning grass, marsh, meadow, etc., and _-ek,_ formative--literally, "Long marsh or meadow." The early settlement at Athens was ca…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-2] He was engaged in similar work in negotiating the Esopus treaty of 1664; signed the deed for Kaniskek in 1665, and disappears of record after that date. In "History of Greene County," he is confused with Aepje…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] It was the name of a noted fishing place, now known as Black Rock, in the south part of Athens. The prefix _Macha,_ is the equivalent of _Massa_ (Natick _Mogge_), meaning "Great," and _-ameck_ is an equivalent of _-a…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] In 1718 it was given as the name of a bound-mark of a tract described as "having on the east the land called Vlackte and Coxsackie." (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 124.) _Vlackte_ (Vlakte) is Dutch for "Plain or flat," and…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] unintelligible. _Sapanak-ock_ means, "Place of wild potatoes," or bulbous roots. (See Passapenoc.) Barrent's is from Barrent Coeymans, the founder of the village of Coeymans. The earlier Dutch name was Beerin Island,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] that nation consented there, under advisement of the Dutch, to take the rank of women, _i. e._ a nation without authority to make war or sell lands. The tradition is worthless. The Dutch did make "covenants of friend…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[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 Rensselae…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] condition of their return, and which he described as a tract of land "called Serachtogue, lying upon Hudson's River, about forty miles above Albany," and for the protection of which Fort Saratoga was erected in 1709;…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Schoolcraft "From _Assarat,_ 'Sparkling water,' and _Oga,_ 'place,' 'the place of the sparkling water,'" the reference being to the mineral springs, one of which. "High Rock," was, traditionally, known to the Indians…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] This form is _Ochsechrage._ The 'digraph' _ch_ in this word evidently
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] (pronounced with an aspirate) became _Hochelaga,_ the well-known aboriginal name of what is now Montreal. That this name meant simply 'At the beaver-dam' is not questioned. It is rather curious, though not surprising…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] It certainly begins with the element _Amik, Amisk_ or _Amisque,_ 'Beaver,' and terminates with the locative _ck_ or _k._ The intermediate portion I am not clear about. There is probably considerable garbling of the m…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[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.…