The Names Susquehanna And Chesapeake : With Historical And Ethnological Notes
The Names Susquehanna And Chesapeake : With Historical And Ethnological Notes
Tooker, William Wallace, 1848-1917
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Horatio Hale (Iroquois Book of Rites, p. 175), says : " The Senecas, who were called by the French Tsonontouan or Sonnontouan, bore among the Iroquois various names, but all apparently derived from the words which appear in that appellation,— ononta, hill, 3.116. kowa, or kowane, great." The Name Susquehanna. 25 hatchets, knives, pieces of iron and brass which they had obtained from the Sasquesahanocks, all goes to prove the fact, and is corroborative evidence as to my hypothesis, that all of t...hese articles of trade, and also most of those brought down as pres- ents, were booty or plunder, looted in war by the so-called Sasquesahanocks from their foes, the Antouhonorons and others, who got them originally, in traffic for beaver-skins, from the French, who were then located on the St. Lawrence River. For when Smith parted with them, he says: " We left them at Tockwogh, sor- rowing for our departure ; yet we promised the next yeare again to 26 The Name Susquehanna. visit them. Many descriptions and discoveries they made us of Atqua- nachucky Massawomeck and other people, signifying they inhabit upon a great water beyond the mountains, which we understood to be some great lake or the river of Canada ; and from the French to have their hatchets and other commodities." Bozman * was in doubt about this passage which my suggestion will clear away.
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