Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names
An account of it is given in Jesuit Relations, liii, 137, by Father Pierron, the Jesuit missionary, who was then stationed at Caughnawaga. The war which was then raging was continued until 1673, when the Governor of New York succeeded in negotiating peace and by treaty "linked together" the opposing nations as allies of the English government, a relation which they subsequently sustained until the war of the Revolution, when the Mahicans united with the revolutionists. Onekee=dsi=enos is of record in a deed of land purchased by one Abraham Cuyler of Albany, in 1714, "from the native owners of the land at Schohere, on the west side of Schohare creek, beginning on the north by a stone mountain called by the Indians Onekeedsienos." (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, no.) The name is probably an equivalent of Bruyas' Onueja-tsi-cntos, a composition from Onne'ja, "Stone" ; tsi or dsi, augmentative, "Very hard," such as stones used for making hatchets, axes, etc., and entos, plural inflection -- "very hard stones," or "where there are hard stones." The location has been claimed for Flint Hill at Klein, Montgomery County, which, it is said, the name correctly describes. Positive identification, however, can only be made from the lines of the survey of Cuyler's purchase. It has also been claimed that the Mo- ^ In a deed of 1685 i'^ tlie entry : "Opposite a place called Jucktununda, that is ye stone houses, being a hollow rock on ye river bank where ye Indians generally lie under when they travel."