my endeavors and have gone so far in it that I have prevailed with the Indians to consent to come back from Canada on condition

that I procure

for

them a piece of land

called Seracbtague lying upon Hudson's river about forty miles fort above Albany, and there furnish them with priests."

was subsequently erected there and a settlement formed. In the war of 1745, the fort was destroyed by the French, together

The Iroquois name for the spot where

Albany now

stands

was

Skenectadea.

town of bany ; Ohnoiualagantle, the Schenectady; Cahohatatea, the north or

In regard to this and other Iroquois geo-

Hudson river j

graphical names in that vicinity, Dr. Mitchill, in answer to an inquiry from the Rev. Dr. Miller, in 1810, on inor

formation from John Bleecker, for many

tain,

years an interpreter of the Iroquois, as

which

well as from the Oneida chief, Louis, and other Indians, writes that Canneogathe

nakalonitade was their name for the Mothe

hawk river j Skcnectadea, the city of Al-

Tioghsahrondc, the place

places where streams empty them" What their selves. etymologies are," he adds, " I have not been able to ascerexcept as to Skcncctadea y Albany, signifies the place the natives of

Iroquois the

through

arrived

at

pine trees."

by

travelling

Collections

Neva York Historical Society, I, 43.

of

APPENDIX.

with about twenty houses; thirty persons were killed and The Indians were not scalped, and about sixty taken prisoners.

occupants of the place at the time of this occurrence. ford, Saratoga