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Sintsinck of 1638, at Schout's bay, is the stony place, and was 

 sold in 1639. 



So-pers is from sepu, a river or creek. 



Suns-wick is Astoria, or the name of a neighboring stream, and 

 may be derived from Sunkisq or Sunksquau, the title of a sachem's 

 wife. Sunnuckhig, a falling trap for ivolves seems better, but the 

 'terminal syllable may be locative. 



Sy-os-set was given by Thompson as the Indian name of the site 

 of Oyster Bay village, and it is still applied to a railroad station in 

 that town. Mr Tooker questions the correctness of this, saying 

 that it is not found in its present form in early records, though 

 substituted for the name of Oyster Bay in 1846 as an aboriginal 

 name of the place, meaning a settlement on a bay protected by 

 islands. In his histor}^ of New York Dunlap said that in 1640 Gov. 

 Kieft " sent a party to Siocits Bay, since called Oyster Bay," to 

 break up an Englislf settlement there. The note in the Ahzv York 

 Colonial Documents, volume 2, page 145, partially quoted before, 

 says of Schout's bay that it is now Manhasset (North Hempstead), 

 at the head of Cow bay, afterwards- called Howe's bay . . . and 

 sometimes Schout's from the circumstance of the Dutch official hav- 

 ing landed there." Mr Tooker thought both mistook and mis- 

 applied the name, turning the Dutch word into Siocits, adding that 

 " The bay, or in reality what is now Oyster Bay harbor, was so 

 designated from a Dutch officer, called the ' Schout ' or 'Sheriff' 

 who at one time landed there." He thus places Schout's bay farther 

 east than some have done, but other circumstances seem to require 

 this. The name of Oyster Bay was changed to Syosset, January 

 20, 1846, and restored a week later to its former pleasantly sug- 

 gestive use. 



Wal-lage is now Westbury in North Hempstead. It may be 

 derived from wahwall, eggs, with locatiyQ, ^place of eggs. 



Wan-do-we-nock was at Middleburg in Newtown. The name 

 may be from wonteaog, they dig pits, referring to those for corn, 

 and adding the locative. 



Wan-tagh was an Indian village in Hempstead. 



Wa-we-pex is on the west side of Cold Spring, perhaps referring 

 to the circuitous ])ath leading there. 



