A treaty was greater, part then concluded, by which the Mohawks, were to have the king of their

fires,

and the Mahicans were to hold them

them Uncle.

Hendrik was the king

in reverence, first

and

call

named such by

" who lived to a the Mohawks, after this decisive victory, great " and was killed at the battle of Lake George age," says Brown, under Sir William Johnson."

The boundary line of the Coeymans tract began at a point on the

"

west shore of the Hudson called

Sieskasin,

described as

opposite the middle of the island called by the Indians Sapana-

Cams keck is also the name for a tract in the^ town of Coeymans about ten miles south of Albany. Coxackle or Kuxakock"

had several interpretations. Schoolcraft defines it as the cut the current deflected of where "the place banks," the shore had western gradually worn away the land. against

kee has

O'Callaghan says that the word is a corruption of the Algon " the quin Kaaks-0&, from Kaak, a goose, and aki, locality, of the wild goose." Another interpretation is Cookcountry sockuy,

signifying

owl-hoot.

The most satisfactory explana

tion will be found

perhaps in co, object, and ak'i, land, the reference being to the clay banks which rise there to the height of

100 feet, and form a conspicuous object in the river scenery. Neweskeke or Naveskeek, about ten miles south of Albany, is described as being a corner or neck of land having a fresh water river running to the east of it.