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8 A cache of pieces of sea shells blocked out for disks was found 
in Lindley near the state line and east of the Tioga. This was on 
the farm of Curtis Guiles, about a mile from the forks of 
Cowanesque and Tioga rivers. Mr Roberts presented some of 
these to the writer. 
Suffolk county. The eastern end of Suffolk county had an early 
celebrity as the seat of the wampum trade which continued there 
till the middle of the 19th century. ‘The refuse shells are abundant 
about Gardiner’s bay and those opened for food form large heaps 
almost everywhere on the shore. Furman remarked that the shell 
banks in the western part of the county were larger than those in 
the eastern. W. W. Tooker who has kindly revised the list 
of sites says of the natives, “Shell heaps, wigwam sites and other 
evidences of their footsteps are found near swamps, at springs of 
running water, on the southern slopes of hills, banks of ponds, 
shores of the bays and creeks and in other sheltered spots from the 
eastern extremity of Montauk to the western line of Southampton.” 
To his labors we owe much of our definite knowledge and sites not 
otherwise credited are to be assigned to him. 
1 Wigwams and shell banks were frequent along the west shore 
of Lloyd’s neck. 
2 There are lodge sites along the southeast shores of Huntington 
bay, and Thompson said that the Matinecocks had settlements at 
Cold Spring and Huntington.—Thompson, p. 67. ‘There were set- 
tlements all about Cold Spring Harbor. The writer finds some 
confusion about Martin Gerritsen’s bay. Early accounts would 
seem to place it west of Oyster bay and some identify it with 
‘Schout’s bay which according to Van Tienhoven was on East river. 
His description of Gerritsen’s bay in 1650 is evidently of Hunting- 
ton bay. Schout’s bay had one river and Oyster bay divided into 
two. ‘“ Martin Gerritsen’s bay, or Martinnehouck, is much deeper 
and wider than Oyster bay and runs in, westward divides into three 
rivers, two of which are navigable; the smallest stream runs up 
in front of the Indian village, called Martinnehouck where they 
have their plantations.”—Doc. list. N. Y. 1:366 
3 Five cemeteries at St Johnland were mentioned in the New 
York Sunday star, Nov. 28, 1880. There are shell heaps about 
Nesaquague. 
