U.S.-Libya Relations: A New Era?: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on International Relations

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...originated, in the era of its settlement, from the circumstance of the occupant of a well-known house on the point of land called Kinderhook Landing, having a. numerous family of children. There is a small lake in Columbia county, bearing the Indian name of Copake. A township of the same county, is named, after it, Copake. A well known valley, witha small stream in the township of Ghent, in the same county, is called by its original name of So.oMroMIoK. The Mohegans of this bank of the Hudson, extended their villages, up to a point opposite to, and also above the junction of the Mohawk, covering the entire area of the present counties of Columbia and Rensselaer. The seat of their council fire, was, for a length of time, at Soaormo. This word appears to be a derivative from ishcoda, a meadow, or fire-plain, perhaps, mediately, through the word straw, and akee, land. Hoosic may be traced to Wudyoo, a mountain, and abic, a rock. A branch of the Hoosic, was called Snacxoox. It had a fall called QUI-QUEK.T As the settlements pressed upon this tribe, they retired eastwardly to the valley of the Housa-tonic, in Massachusetts, where they came under the notice of the Society for the propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and were, for a long period, under the instruction of the celebrated Jonathan Edwards, and other missionaries. As the place of their principal concentration, was called Stockbridge, this term attached itself to the tribe and their descendants in the west, are now known to us by it. At Verb. Com. of M. Butler, Esq. of Kinderhook, also, Spoflord s Gazetteer. t Cain s Reports. Hoosic Patent, 3 vol. Query for analogy hunters. QumrQUICK! A _;-F Stockbridge, the Mohegans, were converted to Christianity, ...