Citations:Kiskatom

English citations of Kiskatom

• 1873, Charles Rockwell, Thomas Cole, The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around: Their Scenery, Legends, and History; with Sketches in Prose and Verse, page 325:

  […] of the valley of Kiskatom. This name, which is given to a stream, valley, and parish, is said to be of Indian origin, meaning a hickory-tree, or nut, or a group or grove of such trees, and in some parts of New Jersey and of Long Island hickory-nuts are still called "kiskatoms."

• 1912, Olde Ulster: An Historical and Genealogical Magazine, page 335:

  […] appears in two forms in original records, Kiskatammeeche in Kiskatamenakoak. The abbreviated form Kiskatom, appears in 1708, more particularly describing "A certain tract by a place called Kiskatammeeche, beginning at a turn of Catrick's Kill ten chains below where Kiskatammeeche Kill watereth into Catrick's Kill," and "Under the great mountain called Kiskatameck." Dr. Trumbull wrote: "Kiskate-minak-auke, 'Place of thin-shelled nuts,' or shag-bark hickory nuts, nuts to be cracked by the teeth, are the 'Kiskatominies.'"

• 1869, Charles Rockwell, The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around: Their Scenery, Legends, and History; with Sketches in Prose and Verse, by Cooper, Irving, Bryant, Cole, and Others, page 33:

  Kiskatom, from where Kiskatom Creek enters into the Cauterskill, north to the Catskill patent line, and the Greene patent, to near Neely Lawrence's ...

• 1903, New York State Museum and Science Service, Bulletin, page 17:

  To the south of the above are the quarries near Kiskatom and High Falls, where six openings are being worked, as follows. Bean & Lewis, Kiskatom.

• 1907, William Martin Beauchamp, Aboriginal Place Names of New York, page 84:

  The name is now applied to a large tract on both sides of the Kiskatom. Ruttenber said that Henry Beekman had a tract under the great mountains, by a ...

• 1922, Jessie Van Vechten Vedder, Historic Catskill, page 91:

  THE early settlers of the “beautiful vale of Kiskatom" were worshippers at old Catskill, coming through the “Five Mile Woods" a long distance on ...