Hoosick from the south was called Tomkenack creek, and one from the north bore the name of Poquampacak. Further east Wallomsckock, after taking in several tributary mountain streams from Vermont, adds its waters in considerable volume. the
The Indian village of Schaticook which stood at the confluence Hoosick and Hudson, has already been referred to. Dionondahowa is given as the Indian name for the falls on the Batten kil below Galesville, Washington county, and TioneenThe same name dogahe to the kil itself. (Patent to Schuyler.}
of the
was
also
applied to the outlet of
Lake George, now
called
Ticonderoga, by which it is known in its many historic associa It is a generic term and appears under different ortho tions.
"
graphies and interpretations.
where two
rivers
Tionderoga, meaning the place
The French called it Carillon, on
meet.
account of the noise of the waterfall
" head.}
Tsinondrosie,
or
water, and the French name, bells,
at
Cheonderoga^ Carillon,
the outlet."
(Brodsignifying brawling signifying a chime of
were both suggested by the noise of the rapids."
(Ga-
HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.
" zetteer.}
c
Dionderoga,
deroga, from //', water ;
place of the inflowing waters ; hills ;
on,
dar,
'
Ticonprecipitous rocks, and
oga, place." ^uequicke was the name of the falls (Schooler aft.} on the Hoosick east of the bounds of Schaticook, now known In answer to the claim that the Hoosick as Hoosick Falls.
takes its name from is
"
Abraham Hoosac, one of the early settlers,
the positive assertion, in one of the first patents, that a tract, twenty-five English miles north-east of the city of Albany,"