History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900
P'tukqua-paug, -a round pond, or water-place. (See bull's Names in Connecticut.) Canopus. -- Name of a chieftain. to Cantetoe.-- In this form not a place name, but seemingly from Cantecoy, "to sing and dance." Variation., Kante Kante, Cante Cante, etc. It may have been derived, however, . . from Pocantico, which see chief. ( 'atonah.-- Var., Katonah, Ket-atonah, " great mountain." Said to he the name of a Cantetoe, by some is said to he a variant of Catonah. form. present its in beaver-dam It does not mean Cisqua --See Kisco. River, the boundCohomong.-- Var., Armonck, Comonck, Cob-a-mong (?) Hills, also Byram -- amaug. ary between Connecticut and New York. The termination denotes a fishing-place boundary \.s it was a boundary it may represent a survival of Chaubun-kongamaug, -the to the fishing-pl ac< !." 1 retained er may have been an earlier boundary, and, as such, Syran -A h present ,1 ay. Cowan - in West Farms ; a -boundary-place." p,--irsoni Croton (J01 Aigh. . < Schoolcraft suggests Kenotin, - the wind." ne | I prefer the Delaware Kloltin, -he contends." -A high ridge in Rye." also applied to Rye cuson. Euketaupucuson.-- Var., Ekucketaupa This name denotes a « place where a stream opens out or widens on both sides. Woods. ; ,., overflows, generally where the stream Hows through low lands. A Delaware form signifying «a place of Gowahasuasing.-- A locality in West Farms. briars," or -a place where there is a hedge," comes from the same elements. Hast co.-- Sec Miosst hassaky.