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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. 6y. 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. hist. 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. 



