. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. at battle. I am indebted to Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Con-verse for the following definition of words similar to the wordswritten above, received from an intelligent aged Mohawkwoman and an Abeniki woman, who speaks the Mohican.^ The definitions are very interesting, as they all bear on thesame subject: Ke-na-kwa-di-one—We are going to kill them. Ke-na-kwa-di-io-he-ne—I was going to kill them. Ka-qua-ri-on-ne—Why did you not kill me, too, with mypeople ? Ki-na-qua-ri-o-ne—We killed the bear, or a place of death. The old Mohawk woman says that the w
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. at battle. I am indebted to Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Con-verse for the following definition of words similar to the wordswritten above, received from an intelligent aged Mohawkwoman and an Abeniki woman, who speaks the Mohican.^ The definitions are very interesting, as they all bear on thesame subject: Ke-na-kwa-di-one—We are going to kill them. Ke-na-kwa-di-io-he-ne—I was going to kill them. Ka-qua-ri-on-ne—Why did you not kill me, too, with mypeople ? Ki-na-qua-ri-o-ne—We killed the bear, or a place of death. The old Mohawk woman says that the word, correctlyspelled, may mean a place of capture, or a hill where theykilled their enemy. The other spellings of the above arethought by the Abeniki woman to be of Mohican origin. The definition of Towereune is given as follows, and, youwill notice, refers to the same subject: Ta-no-we-do-ne—We wanted to kill them. Ka-na-ron-que—Those I loved best have gone (beenkilled). Tow-ire-en-ne—Place where Indians (or the enemy) -1 en W S2 a 2<1-1 <; o Z THE NE^V YORK ^^iBLIC U3RAHY, ASTOR, LENOX ANDT(LOEN FOUNpi-l iO?-c«, The Famous Butler Mansion 185 In 1689 and 1693 the French and Canadian Indians passedup the valley and raided and destroyed the Mohawk castle atTiononderoga (Fort Hunter) and the castles above, returningto Canada by the trail along the Juchtanunda Creek. In 1738Sir William Johnson settled in Warrensbush on the southside of the Mohawk, about half a mile below the mouth of theJuchtanunda Creek, or, as Philip Schuyler reported in hissurvey of the Mohawk in 1792, one-half mile below thecreek on which Vedders grist mill stands. As early as 1742 Johnson had succeeded in winning theconfidence and affection of the Indians of the Six Nations,which finally led to his appointment as Indian Commissioner,and repeated conferences with the Indian tribes were held atMount Johnson. During the old French War troops were re-peatedly seen passing to and
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