Kepehikan from Kepehike, 'he closes up,' or obstructs, i. e. 'dams.' " The bounds of the Shinnec'ock Indians extended east to this stream ; or, as the record reads, "To a river where they did use to catch the fish commonly called alewives, the name of which creek was Pehickkonuk, or Peconic." (Town Records.) Agwam, Agawam, is quoted by French as the name of Southampton, L. I, Dr. Trumbull wrote: "Acawan, Agawan or Auquan, a name given to several localities in New England Where there

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are low meadows -- a low meadow or marsh." Presumably from Agivu, "Underneath, below." Another authority writes : "Agawam from Magawannik, "A great fishing place." (See Machawameck.) Sunquams is given by French as the Indian name of Mellville in Southampton, L. I., with the interpretation, "Sweet Hollow." The interpretation is mere guess-work. Massaback, a hill so called in Huntington, Suffolk County -- in English "Half hill," and in survey (1703) "Half-hollow hill" -- probably does not belong to the hill which the English described as "half-hollow," but to a stream in proximity to it-- Massaheset, "At a (relatively) great brook." (Trumbull.) Mattituck, the name of a village in Southold, near the west end of the town, was primarily written as that of a tract of land including the present town of Riverhead, from which it was extended to a large pond between Peconic Bay and the Sound. Presumably the same name is met in Mattatuck, Gt., written Matetacoke, 1637, Matitacoocke, 1673, which was translated by Dr. Trumbull from Eliot's Mat-uh'tugh-auke, "A place without wood," or badly wooded. (See Titicus.) Cutchogue, Plymouth Records, 1637 ; " Curchaug, or Fort Neck;" Corch'aki, deed of 1648; now Cutchogue, a village in Southold, in the vicinity of which was an Indian fort, the remains of which and of an Indian burial ground are objects of interest, is probably a corruption of Maskutchoung, which see.