They claimed to be the "true owners of the eastern end of Long Island," but acknowledged the primacy of Wyandanch, sachem of the Montauks, who had been elected by other sachems as chief sachem or the "sachem of sachem" of the many clans. The name is probably from the root Shin, or Schind, "Spruce-pine" (Zeisb.) ; Schindikeu, "Spruce-pine forest" ; Shinak-ing, "At the land of spruce-pines."" (Brinton) ; Schindak-ock, "Land or place of spruce-pines." There was an extended spruce-pine forest on that part of the island, a considerable portion of which remains in the district south of Peconic

*The suffix -og, -ock, -uck, is, in the dialect here, a plural sign. Williams wrote -oock, -uock, -zvock, and Zeisberger wrote -ak, -ivak. Quinneh-tukwock, " People living on the Long River " -- " a particular name amongst themselves." Kutch-innu-wock, "Middle-aged men;" Miss-innu-Tvock, "The many." Lenno, "Man"; Lenno-zvak, "Men." (Zeisberger.) Kuwc, "Pine"; Cuweuch-ak, " pine wood, pine logs." Strictly, an animate plural. In the Chippewav dialect, Schoolcraft gives eight forms of the animate and eight forms mates of that 'the inanimate doplural. Europeans not. The Indians regarded many things as ani-

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River in the town of Southampton. The present form of the name is pronounced Shinnec'ock. Mochgonnekonck is written, in 1643, ^.s the name of a place unlocated except in a general way. The record reads : "Whiteneymen, sachem of Mochgonnekonck, situate on Long Island." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv, 60.) Whiteneyimen, whose name is written Mayawetinnemin in treaty of 1645, ^.nd "Meantinnemen, alias Tapousagh, chief of Marsepinck and Rediawyck," in 1660 (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 58), was son of Mechowodt, sachem of Marsepingh, and probably succeeded his father as sachem of that clan. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv, 540.) His last possession was Cow Neck, in the present town of North Hampton, which was given to him by his father; it may have been the Mochgonnekonk of 1643, De Vries met him in conference in 1645, and notes him as a speaker of force, and as having only one eye.