In 'his will Richard Smith wrote : "I give to my daug*hter Sarah, 130 acres of land at the tivo swamps called Cuttscunsuck." The first word seems to stand for Ksiicqon, "Heavy" (Zeisb.), by metonymie, "Stone," -es, "Small," and -uck, locative, "Place of small stone." Ksiicqon may be employed as an adjectival^ prefix. Eliot wrote, "Qussukquemin, Stone fruit," tihe cherry. Mespaechtes, deed to Governor Keift, 1638, from which Mespath (Brodhead), Mespat (Riker), Mashpeth and Mashpett (CoL Hist. N. Y., xiv, 602), now Maspeth, a village in Newtown, Queens] County, and met in application to Newtown Creek (Col. Hist. N. Y.,1 xiii, 25), has been translated by Dr. Tooker, "From Mech-pe-is-it,\ Bad-water place," and by Wm. R. Gerard, "From Massapichtit, verbal describing scattered settlements, as though the Indianis whoj sold the lands had said, 'We include the lands of those living here!

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and there.' "^ Flint, in his "Early History of Long Island," wrote: "Mespat Kills, now Maspe'th, from the Indian Matsepe, written by the Dutch, MaespautcJies Kiletje" -- long known as "Dutdh Kills." In patent of 1642, for lands described as lying "on the east side of Mespatcihes Kil," the boundary is stated : "Beginning at 'the kil and the tree standing upon the point towards the small kil." Obviously there were two streams here, the largest called Mespatdhes, which seems to be, as Flint states, a Dutch rendering of Matsepe-es, from Mas (Del. Mech), a comparative term -- "great," as distinguished from "small," the largest of two, and Sepees {Sepoiis, Septals), "a brook." Sepe, Sipo, Sipti, etc., is generally applied to a long stream. The west branch of Mespatt Kill has the record name of Quandoequareus. Flint wrote: "The Canapauke, or Dutch Kills, sluggishly winding its way through the meadows of bronzed grass'es." Canapauke stands for Quaiia-pe-auke, "Long waterland," or "Land on the long water." The stream is a tidal current receiving several small streams. (See Massepe.) Mespatches seem's to belong to the stream noted in patent of 1642.