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

   It 
  may 
  be 
  from 
  pequas, 
  a 
  fox. 
  

  

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

   corrupted 
  from 
  Quaquanantuck. 
  

  

  Quan-no-to-w.ouck 
  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. 
  Quaquantucke 
  meadow 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1659, 
  and 
  

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

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

  

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

   1 
  71 
  5. 
  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 
  doubtful. 
  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 
  creek 
  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, 
  miry 
  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 
  zvater 
  place. 
  

  

  