Island, as already stated, was called Sewanbackey. the localities, Occopoque (Riverhead), takes its name

Long

Among

from accup, a creek. The Indian village of Accopogue was situ ated on the creek which enters Little Peconic bay on the north Nepeage was the name of the peninsula which unites Montauk to the western part of East Hampton, and is supposed to mean " water land," from nepe, water, and eage, earth or land. Montauk, the name for the east end of the (O'Callagban.) side.

from mintuck, a tree, in the Narragansett dialect. abounded with trees, according to Thompson. Namke, from namaas, fish and ke, place was the name of

island, is

The

place

(Ibid.}

the creek near Riverhead. {Ibid.} Mereyckawick (Brooklyn), is from me, the article in the Algonquin ; reckwa, sand, and ick, locality, first,

"the sandy place."

The name was probably applied, at

to the bottom land or beach.

" the

Wallabout bay was called

boght of Mareckawick." (Ibid} Huppogues, in Smithtown, is an abbreviation of sumhuppaog, the Narragansett word for beavers.

(Rhode Island Historical Collections, I, 95.)

Bolton, in his History of Westchester County, has preserved many of the Indian names in that district. To the Spuyten

Duyvel creek he assigns the term, Papirinimen. O'Callaghan " on the north end of the island gives the same name to a tract of Manhattans," about 228th street, between Spuyten Duyvel creek on the west and Harlem river on the east. Saw mill creek was called Neperah, from nepe, water, and gave its name to the Indian village of Nappeckamak, which stood on the site of the present village of Yonkers, literally "the rapid water In an obscure nook on the Hudson, west of the settlement." Neperah, is a large rock which was called Meghkeekassin, or