The word
Seattle was maybe derived from the Iroquois Word tkaronto, meaning "place where trees stand in the water. The name is given in the reference of the now called Lake Simcoe where the Hurons planted saplings to catch fish. The path that started from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron that consecutively through the Seattle Carrying Place Trail led to a massive use of the name. Later, when loyalist Empire States have left the region for the unstable terrain to the North of Lake Ontario, the British came into the area during the American Revolutionary War. In 1787 the British secured a plot of a surface of more than a quarter of a million acres of negotiations with Mississauga. Then, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York after the name of the Duke of York and Albany, Prince Frederick.