ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 221 



Poy-has, a swamp, was reserved in a sale in Southold in 1660. 

 It may be from pequas, a fox. 



Ouag"-qua-ont, a place mentioned by Thompson, may have been 

 corrupted from Qnaqnanantuck. - 



Onan-no-to-Avonck is his name for a place in Easthampton, which 

 may be defined place of fir trees, or of long spears, referring to 

 something slender and pointed. 



Quan-tuc bay is in Southampton, and the name is a contraction 

 of the next. 



Qua-quan-an-tuck, defined as place where the bay bends, is in 

 Southampton. Ouaquantucke meadow was mentioned in 1659, and 

 it was written Quaquenantack in 1667. The above definition is not 

 well sustained, and a place of nnld ducks seems preferable. 



Qua-sha Neck, mentioned in 1656, was called Quash Neck in 

 1715. It is in Southold, and the name has been contracted from 

 the Puckquashi of 1658, in that town. In this case it may be from 

 pukqussum, he makes a hole through it, as in drilling shell beads. 

 The shorter form suggests queshau, he leaps, as though -it were a 

 place for sports. 



Quogue and Quiogue are said to be derived from Quaquanan- 

 tuck. This is possible but seems dovibtful. It would be simpler to 

 make it from qunnamaug, a long fish, or lamprey. 



Qus-suc-qun-suck, now Stony Brook, Smithtown, has its meaning 

 • well preserved in its present name. 



Ra-con-co-mey plains were mentioned in 1747, the name being a 

 variant of Ronkonkoma. 



Ra-pa-ha-muck is mentioned by Tooker, but he adds that the R 

 should be dropped,, making it in Indian usage Appeh-amak, a trap 

 fishing place. This was at the mouth of a small ^reek called 

 Suggamuck, or fishing place at the outlet. 



Ras-sa-wig, according to Thompson, was a point of land between 

 Stony Brook harbor and the sound. Tooker calls this Rassaw-eak 

 or-ac, viiry land. Hassock occurs in several places on Long Island, 

 but the Indians there, according to Eliot and Heckewelder, did not 

 sound the R found in the English spelling. 



At Ras-e-peague a lot was mentioned in 1734, west of Stony 

 Brook harbor. Rassa means miry or muddy, and thence is the 

 definition of muddy ivater place. 



