. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. y travill to and from their country. Theother pieces on the north side of the river, one a little higher thanye said hollow rock or stone house att a place called by ye nativesSyejodenawadde (?) and so eastward down the river so as to compre-hend twelve morgens (24 acres). The other just above the markedtree of Hendrick Cuyler (the owner of Claas Graven hoek) onemoro;en and three or four little islands. O^ In trying to locate the grant of the Mohawk Indian Rode,to Adam Vrooman, I have taken the trouble to examine thebanks of the Mohawk from Cl
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. y travill to and from their country. Theother pieces on the north side of the river, one a little higher thanye said hollow rock or stone house att a place called by ye nativesSyejodenawadde (?) and so eastward down the river so as to compre-hend twelve morgens (24 acres). The other just above the markedtree of Hendrick Cuyler (the owner of Claas Graven hoek) onemoro;en and three or four little islands. O^ In trying to locate the grant of the Mohawk Indian Rode,to Adam Vrooman, I have taken the trouble to examine thebanks of the Mohawk from Claas Graven hoek up to FortJohnson, and the only place where cliffs or overhanging rocksare to be found is at a point by the N. Y. C. R. R. freighthouse, and from the Chuctanunda Creek up to the Atlas of the old Bronson mansion and the site of W. U. Chasesblacksmith shop are to be found the only shelving rocks, andalso large masses of rock that have fallen from the cliff above,indicating that at some previous period this point has been a. ^._ ^ THE DOORWAY OF OLD ST. MARY S 165 In the Old Town of Amsterdam 167 juchtanunda, a stone house or hollow or overhangingrock where ye Indians generally lie under when they travillto and from their country. Now, in regard to the flats spoken of in this grant, an ex-amination of the south side of the river discloses the fact thatthe first flat west of Willow Flats is the ground now occupiedby the fifth ward ; the only islands not otherwise accounted forare the four or five small Bronson Islands and the twelvemorgens (twenty-four acres) must have been the BronsonFlats in the western part of the city of Amsterdam, togetherwith forty acres of woodland, and undoubtedly covered thesite of the village of Amsterdam. This leads to another thought. We have been taught that the meaning of Chuctanunda was twin sisters and that it was applied to the north and southChuctanunda because they entered the Mohawk nearly oppo-site each other. It is al
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