﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  200, 
  

  

  SUFFOLK 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  The 
  local 
  names 
  in 
  this 
  county 
  are 
  all 
  Algonquin, 
  but 
  in* 
  many 
  

   cases 
  much 
  changed. 
  Sometimes, 
  indeed, 
  a 
  name 
  has 
  been 
  changed 
  

   from 
  Indian 
  to 
  English, 
  or 
  the 
  reverse. 
  Of 
  course 
  many 
  are 
  writ- 
  

   ten 
  in 
  'several 
  ways, 
  and 
  Mr 
  Tooker 
  has 
  solved 
  many 
  difficulties. 
  

  

  Ac-ca-po-nack, 
  or 
  Acabonac 
  Harbor 
  in 
  Easthampton, 
  is 
  derived 
  

   from 
  oceapand'k, 
  a 
  kind 
  of 
  ground 
  nut. 
  It 
  is 
  on 
  Gardiner's 
  bay 
  

   and 
  may 
  be 
  defined 
  as 
  a 
  place 
  of 
  roots. 
  Trumbull 
  says 
  that 
  in 
  

   Virginia 
  okeepenauk 
  occurs, 
  meaning 
  roots 
  of 
  round 
  shape 
  in 
  dry 
  

   ground. 
  

  

  Ac-cob-auke 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Beaver-dam 
  brook 
  in 
  1659, 
  and 
  it 
  

   was 
  Apaucuck 
  in 
  a 
  deed 
  of 
  1653. 
  It 
  is 
  sometimes 
  called 
  Apocock 
  

   and 
  is 
  in 
  Southampton. 
  

  

  Ac-com-bo-mack, 
  boundary 
  or 
  inclosure 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  side, 
  is 
  a 
  

   name 
  for 
  the 
  north 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Shinnecock 
  hills. 
  

  

  Ac-com-bo-muck, 
  in 
  the 
  eastern 
  part 
  of 
  Southampton, 
  is 
  the 
  same. 
  

  

  Ag-a-wam, 
  place 
  abounding 
  in 
  fish, 
  is 
  at 
  this 
  village 
  in 
  South- 
  

   ampton. 
  Agawam 
  lake 
  is 
  3 
  miles 
  north. 
  

  

  A-ha-qua-zu-wa-muck, 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Shelter 
  Island, 
  was 
  written 
  

   Ahaquatuwamock 
  in 
  1652. 
  The 
  name 
  includes 
  a 
  Ushingplace. 
  

  

  Am-a-gan-sett 
  is 
  now 
  a 
  village 
  in 
  Easthampton. 
  Trumbull 
  sug- 
  

   gested 
  that 
  it 
  meant 
  at 
  or 
  near 
  the 
  fishing 
  place. 
  Its 
  earliest 
  form 
  

   was 
  Amogonsett 
  in 
  1683, 
  and 
  this 
  makes 
  a 
  good 
  definition, 
  amaug 
  

   meaning 
  fish 
  taken 
  with 
  a 
  hook. 
  Tooker 
  said 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  a 
  personal 
  

   name, 
  but 
  he 
  thought 
  it 
  meant 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  drinking 
  thing 
  or 
  

   well, 
  which 
  at 
  that 
  place 
  was 
  a 
  hollow 
  log, 
  sunk 
  in 
  the 
  ground. 
  Be- 
  

   ginning 
  with 
  1672 
  he 
  found 
  many 
  references 
  to 
  this 
  Indian 
  well 
  and 
  

   the 
  plain 
  adjoining. 
  He 
  derives 
  it 
  from 
  wutahamunk, 
  a 
  well, 
  and 
  

   the 
  added 
  locatives. 
  

  

  A-mus-by-mon-i-ca 
  or 
  Amuskemunnica 
  Neck 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  

   1682, 
  in 
  the 
  records 
  of 
  Huntington. 
  

  

  An-chan-nock 
  in 
  Southold, 
  called 
  Robert's 
  or 
  Robin's 
  island, 
  was 
  

   bought 
  in 
  1665. 
  

  

  An-usk 
  Co-mun-cak 
  was 
  a 
  stream 
  separating 
  East 
  Neck 
  from 
  

   Sampaumes 
  Neck. 
  

  

  A-que-bauke 
  meadows 
  were 
  on 
  Piaconnock 
  river 
  in 
  1666. 
  They 
  

   were 
  called 
  Aquebaak 
  in 
  1667. 
  

  

  A-que-bogue, 
  or 
  Riverhead, 
  is 
  sometimes 
  Occapogue. 
  In 
  1667 
  

  

  