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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names

Ruttenber, E.M. Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware. Published in the Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. VI. 1906. 280 words

During his passage down the Susquehanna, Clinton destroyed Albout, a Scotch Tory settlement on the east side of the Susquehanna, about five miles above the present village of Unadilla ; Conihunto, an Indian town about fourteen miles below Unadilla, on the west side of the river ; Unadilla, at the junction of the Unadilla with the Susquehanna ; Onoquaga, an Indian town situated on both sides of the river about twenty miles below Unadilla ; Shaw'hiangto, a Tuscarora village near the present village of Windsor, in Broome county ; Ingaren, a Tuscarora hamlet where is now the village of Great Bend ; Otsiningo, sometimes called Zeringe, near the site of the present village of Chenango, on the Chenango river, four miles north of Binghamton ; Choconut, on the south side of the Susquehanna at the site of the present village of Vestal, in the town of Vestal, Broome County; Owegy or Owagea, on the Oweg-o Creek about a mile above its mouth ; and Mauckatawaugum, near Barton. On the 28th of August Clinton met a force sent out by Sullivan at a place that has since been called Union because of this meeting. It is about ten miles from Binghamton. The two forces having joined, all was in readiness for a forward movement. The expedition which at this time had its real beginning, all the previous movements having been in the nature of organization and preparation, was a remarkable one in that it was to pass over hundreds of miles of territory of which no reliable map had ever been made, through forests where no roads had ever been cut, across swamps that were almost impassable to a single in-