Oghrackee, Orachkee, Oghrackie, orthographies of the record name of what is now known as Aurie's Creek, appear in connection with land patented to John Scott, 1722. In the survey of the patent by Cadwallader Colden, in the same year, the description reads: "On the south side of Mohawk's river, about two miles above Fort Hunter, . . . beginning at a certain brook called by the Indians Oghrackie, otherwise known as Arie's creek, where it falls into Maquas river." (N. Y. Land Papers, 164.) In other words the name was that of a place at the mouth of the brook. Near the brook at Auriesville, which takes its name from that of the stream, has been located the Shrine, "Our Lady of Martyrs," marking the presumed site of the Mohawk castle called by Father Jogues _Osserueñon,_ in which he suffered martyrdom in 1646. [FN] The Indian name, _Oghrackie,_ has no meaning as it stands; some part of it was probably lost by mishearing. The digraph _gh_ is not a radical element in Mohawk speech; it is frequently dropped, as in _Orachkee,_ one of the forms of the name here. Omitting it from Colden's _Oghrackie,_ and inserting the particle _se_ or _sa,_ yields _Osarake,_ "At the beaver dam," from _Osara,_ "Beaver dam," and locative participle _ke,_ "At." (Hale.) This interpretation is confirmed, substantially, by the Bureau of Ethnology in an interpretation of _Osseruenon_ which Father Jogues gave as that of the castle. W. H. Holmes, Chief of the Bureau, wrote me, under date of March 8, 1906, as has been above stated, "The term _Osserueñon_ (or _Osserneñon, Asserua, Osserion, Osserrinon_) appears to be from the Mohawk dialect of the Iroquoian stock of languages. It signifies, if its English dress gives any approximation to the sound of the original expression, 'At the beaver dam.'" This expert testimony has its value in the force which it gives to the conclusion that the castle in which Father Jogues suffered was at or near Aurie's Creek. The relation between Megapolensis' _Assarue_ and Jogues's _Osseru_ is readily seen by changing the initial _A_ in the former to _O._ _Aurie's,_ the present name of the stream, otherwise written _Arie's,_ is Dutch for _Adrian_ or _Adrianus_ (Latin) "Of or pertaining to the sea." It is suggestive of the name _Adriochten,_ written by Van Curler as that of the ruling sachem of the castle which he visited and called _Onekagoncka_ in 1635. The only tangible fact, however, is that the stream took its present name from Aurie, a ruling sachem who resided on or near it.