Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names
Muchito, the name of w'hat is now Glen Cove, near Hempstead Harbor, is otherwise written Muschedo, Mosquito aaid Muscota.
' A corruption from " Martin." '^ Mattinacunk, Matinneconke, Matinnekonck -- " having been formerly known by the name of Kipp's Island, and by ye Indian name of Koomenakanok-onck." (Col. Hist. N. Y.) Koo-menakanok-onck was the largest of two islands in the Delaware and was particularly identified by the Indian name, which means " Pine-tree-Islands place." The name by which the Island came to be known was transferred to it apparently.
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It was primarily written as the name cf Muchito Neck. It means "Meadow" -- Moskehtu (Eliot), "grass;" Miiskuta, "A grassy plain or meadow." (See Musoota.) Katavvomoke, "or. las called by the Englisli, Huntington," is written in the Indian deed of 1653, Kctanoinakc ; in deed of 1646, Ketanoinocke, and assigned to a neck of land "Bounded upon the west side wi'th a river comimonly called by the Indians Nachaquetuck, and on the east by a river called Opcutkontycke," the latter now known as Northfield-Harbor Brook. The name is preserved in several orthographies. In deed to Lion Gardiner (1638), Arhata-aniiint ; in deed to Richard Smith (1664), Catawaumick and Catauwnnck, and in another entry "Cattawamnuck land," i. e. land about Catawamuck ; in Huntington Records, Kctcivomokc ; in Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, p. 60 : "To the eastward of the town of Huntington and to the westward of Nesaquack, commonly called by the Indians Katazi-aniake and in English by the name of Crope Meadow ;" in another entry, "Crab iMeadow," by which last name the particular tract was known for many years. "Crope" and "Crab" are English equivalents for a species of grass called "finger-grass or wire-grass," and were obviously employed by the English to describe the kind of grass that distinguished the meadow -- ^certainly not as an equivalent of the Indian name, which was clearly that of a place at or near the head of Huntington Harbor, from which it was extended to the lands as a general locative.