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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  the 
  island, 
  and 
  this 
  contracted 
  name 
  is 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  large 
  bay. 
  In 
  

   1639 
  Lord 
  Stirling's 
  patent 
  ran 
  " 
  from 
  Peaconnet 
  to 
  ye 
  eastermost 
  

   poynte 
  of 
  ye 
  said 
  Long 
  Island." 
  It 
  was 
  called 
  Peheconnacke 
  in 
  

   1659, 
  and 
  Pehaconnuck 
  in 
  1664. 
  Piaconnock 
  or 
  Aquebauke 
  river 
  

   was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1667. 
  Tooker 
  derives 
  the 
  whole 
  name 
  from 
  

   Pehik-konik, 
  little 
  plantation. 
  

  

  Pen-at-a-qnit, 
  a 
  small 
  stream 
  in 
  Islip. 
  There 
  is 
  now 
  a 
  village 
  of 
  

   that 
  name. 
  

  

  Pe-qnash 
  or 
  Quasha 
  Neck 
  was 
  in 
  Southold 
  in 
  1656. 
  

  

  In 
  1658 
  Puckqnashi 
  Neck 
  was 
  mentioned 
  as 
  an 
  old 
  boundary 
  

   of 
  Southold, 
  west 
  of 
  Toms 
  creek. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  pequas, 
  

   a 
  fox. 
  

  

  Pis-sa-punke 
  meadows 
  were 
  mentioned 
  at 
  Corchauge 
  in 
  1654, 
  and 
  

   were 
  called 
  Pecepnnk 
  meadows 
  in 
  1685 
  and 
  1692. 
  The 
  name 
  now 
  

   belongs 
  to 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  Nissequogue 
  river, 
  and 
  Mr 
  Tooker 
  gives 
  

   the 
  original 
  form 
  as 
  Pessapunk, 
  a 
  szv 
  eating 
  place. 
  

  

  Po-dunk, 
  a 
  clean 
  place, 
  is 
  in 
  Southampton, 
  and 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  New 
  

   England 
  name. 
  

  

  Pog-gat-a-cut 
  was 
  a 
  place 
  where 
  this 
  chief's 
  body 
  was 
  set 
  down 
  

   while 
  on 
  the 
  way 
  to 
  the 
  grave. 
  A 
  hole 
  was 
  dug 
  to 
  mark 
  the 
  spot, 
  

   and 
  this 
  was 
  carefully 
  cleansed 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  time. 
  

  

  Pon-quogue, 
  shallow 
  water, 
  a 
  beach 
  and 
  hamlet 
  in 
  Southampton, 
  

   on 
  Shinnecock 
  bay. 
  

  

  Poo-se-pa-tnck 
  is 
  a 
  hamlet 
  in 
  Brookhaven, 
  and 
  was 
  the 
  home 
  of 
  

   the 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  Uncachogues. 
  Thomas 
  Jefferson 
  took 
  down 
  a 
  

   vocabulary 
  at 
  Pusspa'tok 
  in 
  this 
  town 
  in 
  1794, 
  from 
  an 
  old 
  squaw 
  

   of 
  that 
  place. 
  

  

  Po-qua-tuck, 
  clear 
  stream, 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1641 
  and 
  now 
  Orient, 
  

   may 
  be 
  the 
  Paugetnck 
  of 
  1660. 
  Mrs 
  Flint 
  gives 
  this 
  name 
  to 
  

   Oyster 
  ponds. 
  

  

  Po-quott 
  -is 
  now 
  Dyer's 
  Neck, 
  and 
  may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  pukut, 
  

   smoke, 
  but 
  is 
  more 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  clear 
  place. 
  Thompson 
  said 
  it 
  was 
  

   a 
  cove 
  between 
  Port 
  Jefferson 
  and 
  Setanket. 
  

  

  Po-tuck, 
  clear 
  stream, 
  is 
  a 
  hamlet 
  in 
  Southampton. 
  

  

  Po-tunk 
  island, 
  clean 
  place, 
  is 
  in 
  Southampton, 
  and 
  was 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  in 
  [659 
  as 
  east 
  of 
  Peheconnacke. 
  

  

  I'ox-a-bogne 
  is 
  1V2 
  miles 
  from 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  Bridgehampton. 
  

  

  