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."

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hawk castle called Onekagoncka by Van Curler in 1635, and the Ossenicnon of 1642, was located at Klein, about eight miles east of Schohare Creek. This claim is based on what is certainly an erroneous computation of Van Curler's miles' travel, but particularly on the location on Van der Donck's map of Carcnay directly north of a small lake now in the town of Duane, Schenectady County. Van der Donck's map locations are merely approximative, however, and of no other value tihan as showing that the places existed. On an ancient map reprinted by the War Department at Washing-ton, the lake and the castle are both located east of Schenterms. ectady. The old maps are from traders' descriptions in general