It is an equivalent of Quinnituckquet, "Longriver land," as in Connecticut. (Trumbull.) Quinnitiik, "Long river" ; with locative -ct or -it, "Land or place on the long-river." The stream is the outlet of Ronkonkoma Lake, and flows south to Fire-place Bay, where the name is of primary record. There were two streams to which it was applied ; one is a small stream in Islip, and the other, the largest stream on the island, as described above. In old deeds it is called East Connecticutt. Fire-place is now re-

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lained as the nanie of a village on Bellport Bay, and its ancient locative on the Connecticut is now called South Haven/ Minasseroke, quoted as the name of Little Neck, town of Brookhaven, probably means "Small-stone land" or place -- Min-assinohke, r and n exchanged. Patchogue, Pochough, Pachough, the name of a village in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, on Patchough Bay, is probably met in Pochaug, Conn., which Dr. Trumbull read from Pohshdog, where two streams form one river, signifying, "Where they divide in two." The name was early extended to a clan known as the Pochoughs, later Patchoogues, who seem to have been a family of the Onchechaugs, a name probably the equivalent of Ongkone (Moh.), "beyond," with -ogite (ohke), "land beyond," i. e. beyond the bay.- (See Moriches.) Cumsequogue is given in will of William Tangier Smith as the name of what is now known as Carman's River, flowing to Bellport Bay. It is probably a pronunciation of Accomh-suck-ohke , "Land or place at the outlet beyond." The record name of Bellport is Occombomeck, Accobamuck, etc., meaning, "Fishing-place beyond," which, as the deeds show, was a fishing-place at a freshwater pond, now dried up. The name is readily confused with Aquebogue. Moriches, a neck of land "lying at Unquetague, on the south side of Long Island, being two necks called by ye names of Mariges and Namanock" (Cal.