Gideon Hawley described it, in 1753, as on the southwest side of the creek "Not far from the place where it discharges its waters into Mohawk River." The place is still known as "Fort Hunter," although the fort and the Indian settlement disappeared years ago. ' A. detachment of one hniulred men, sent out for that purpose, surprised the castle on the 29th of October, 1779, making prisoners of "Every Indian inmate." The houseless settlers took possession of the four houses and of all the stock, grain and furniture of the tribe. The tribe made claim for restitution on the ground of neutrality, which the settlers denied. They had come to hate the very name of Mohawk.

ON THE MOHAWK. 2O9

Ti-ono)idar-dga and Te-ononte-6gen are related terms but are not precisely of the same meaning. The first has the locative particle ke, or acH, as Zeisberger wrote it, and the second, ogen, means "A space between," or "between two mountains," an mtervale, or valley, a very proper name for Schohare Valley. It is a generic composition and was also employed in connection with the "Upper (Third) Mohawk Castle" (i635-'66). Kadarode, of record in 1693 as the name of a tract of land "Lying upon Trinderogues (Schohare) creek, on both sides, made over to John Petersen Mabie by Roode, the Indian, in his life time,^ principal sachem, by and with the consent of the rest of t'he Praying Indian Castle in the Mohawk country" (Land Papers, 61), is further referred to in grant of permission to Mabie, in 1715, to purchase additional land "known as Kadarode," on the east side of the creek, and also lands "adjoining" his lands on the ivest side of the stream. (lb. 118.) By the DeWitt map of survey of 1790, Mafcie's entire purchase extended east from the mouth of Aurie's Creek to a point on the east side of Schobare Creek, a distance of about four miles, the territory covering the presumed site of the early Mohawk castle called by different writers from names which they had 'heard spoken, Onekagoncka, Caneray, Osseruenon, and Oneugioure, now the site of the Shrine, "Our Lady of Martyrs." The Mohawk River, west of the long rapids, above and including the mouth of Schohare Creek, flows "in a broad, dark stream, with no apparent current," giving it the appearance of a lake -- "a long stretch of still water in a river." The section was much favored by the Tortoise tribe, whose castle in 1635 and again in 1693-4 was seated upon it.