It is from Sagahonak, "Ground nuts, or Indian potatoes." (Trumbull.) The name is of record as that of a boundmark "two miles from the east side of a Great Pond," and is described as a "pond or swamp" to which the name of the tuber was extended from its product. Ketchepunak, quoted as the name of Westhampton, describes "The greatest ground-nut place," or "The greatest ground-nuts." (See Kestaubniuk.) Wequaganuck is given as the name of that part of Sag-harbor within the town of East Hampton. It is an equivalent of Wequaiadn-anke, "Place at the end of the hill/' or "extending to the hill." (Trumbull.) The hill is now known as Turkey Hill, on the north side of wihich the settlement of Sag-harbor was commenced. Namke, from Namaa, "fish," and ke, "place" -- fish-place -- ^was the name of a place on the creek near Riverhead. (O'Gallaghan.) More exactly, Nameauke, probably. Hoppogues, in Smithtown, Suffolk County, is pretty certainly from Wingau-hoppagne, meaning, literally, "Standing water of good and pleasant taste." The name was that of a spring and pond. In a deed of 1703, the explanation is, "Or ye pleasant springs." Supposed to have been the springs which make the headwaters of Nissequogue river at the locality now bearing the name of Hauppauge, a hamlet. Massapeage -- Massapeag, 1636; Massapeague, Rassapeage -- a place-name from which extended to an Indian clan whose principal seat is said to have been on Fort Neck, in the town of Oyster Bay, was translated by Dr. Trumbull from Massa, "great" ; pe, the radical of water, and auke, "land," or "Land on the great cove." Thompson (Hist. L. I.) assigns the name to "a swamp on the south side of Oyster Bay," now South Oyster Bay, and it is so applied in Indian deeds. There were two Indian forts or palisaded towns on