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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  sukquiyen, 
  powdered 
  or 
  in 
  powder, 
  and 
  ahki, 
  

   land. 
  

  

  Skook-quams 
  is 
  Thompson's 
  name 
  for 
  a 
  place 
  in 
  Islip. 
  

  

  Sonn-quo-qnas 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  of 
  Tom's 
  creek 
  in 
  Sonthold, 
  in 
  1660. 
  

   It 
  may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  suiinkkuhkau, 
  c 
  rushed 
  by 
  a 
  heavy 
  weight, 
  

   as 
  iii 
  a 
  trap. 
  

  

  So-was-sett 
  is 
  now 
  Port 
  Jefferson. 
  At 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  unstrung 
  

   wampum. 
  

  

  Spe-onk 
  is 
  a 
  village 
  near 
  East 
  bay 
  in 
  Southampton. 
  The 
  name 
  

   may 
  have 
  been 
  corrupted 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  root. 
  

  

  The 
  Sqtiam 
  or 
  Sqnam 
  Pit 
  purchase 
  was 
  made 
  in 
  1699. 
  Trumbull 
  

   considered 
  this 
  a 
  corrupt 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  rocky 
  summit. 
  It 
  

   is 
  often 
  found. 
  

  

  Squaw-sucks, 
  women, 
  is 
  a 
  village 
  in 
  Brookhaven. 
  

  

  Sre-cun-kas 
  or 
  Screcunkas 
  was 
  an 
  island 
  of 
  meadow 
  in 
  Southold 
  

   bay 
  in 
  1689. 
  The 
  name 
  may 
  be 
  incorrect 
  as 
  preserved, 
  and 
  pos- 
  

   sibly 
  derived 
  from 
  suckauanausuck, 
  blaek 
  shells. 
  

  

  Sng-ga-mnck, 
  a 
  small 
  creek, 
  has 
  been 
  defined 
  bass 
  fishing 
  place, 
  

   but 
  seems 
  more 
  correctly 
  rendered 
  fishery 
  at 
  the 
  outlet. 
  

  

  Sun-quams 
  or 
  Melville 
  has 
  been 
  translated 
  cool 
  place. 
  This 
  was 
  

   a 
  name 
  for 
  Babylon 
  river, 
  according 
  to 
  Thompson. 
  

  

  Ta-ta-muck-a-ta-kis 
  creek, 
  mentioned 
  in 
  Huntington 
  in 
  1693, 
  was 
  

   near 
  Coppiag 
  Neck. 
  It 
  suggests 
  the 
  following 
  name. 
  

  

  Ta-ta-mun-e-hese 
  Neck 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  town 
  in 
  1666. 
  It 
  may 
  

   have 
  a 
  reference 
  to 
  an 
  inclosed 
  place. 
  

  

  Tau-ko-mo 
  Neck 
  was 
  mentioned 
  here 
  in 
  1696. 
  

  

  Ti-an-na 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  Thompson's 
  Southampton 
  names, 
  perhaps 
  not 
  

   an 
  Indian 
  word, 
  though 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  tannag, 
  a 
  crane. 
  

  

  To-youngs 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  of 
  Reed 
  creek 
  in 
  1665, 
  and 
  Thompson 
  

   •said 
  that 
  Toyongs 
  was 
  a 
  brook 
  tributary 
  to 
  Wading 
  river. 
  It 
  is 
  

   often 
  called 
  Toyong, 
  and 
  this 
  was 
  its 
  form 
  in 
  1679. 
  

  

  Tow 
  T 
  d, 
  a 
  lozv 
  place 
  between 
  the 
  hills. 
  A 
  better 
  derivation 
  may 
  

   be 
  from 
  touweu, 
  it 
  is 
  deserted. 
  

  

  Tuck-a-hoe, 
  near 
  Southampton, 
  is 
  derived 
  from 
  p'tuckwe, 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  round 
  root. 
  Trumbull 
  said 
  that 
  the 
  common 
  Tuck- 
  

   ahoe 
  of 
  Virginia, 
  used 
  for 
  Indian 
  bread 
  (Tockwogh 
  of 
  Smith), 
  

   was 
  the 
  root 
  of 
  the 
  golden 
  club, 
  Orontium 
  aquatic 
  urn. 
  

  

  Un-ca-chaug 
  was 
  written 
  Yncachoag 
  and 
  Vncheckaug 
  in 
  1667, 
  

  

  