Aquel?ogue, Aquebauke-- "on the north side of Aquebauke or Piaconnock River " (C'Ol. Hist. N. Y., xiv, 600) -- means, "Land or place on this side," i. e. on the side towards the speaker, as is obvious from fhe description, "On the north side," and from the deed of 1648, which reads : "The whole tract of land called Ocquebauck, together with the lands and meadows lying on the other side of the water as far as the creek," the latter called "The Iron or * Rev. Thomas James, in a deposition made Oct. 18, 1667, said that two old Indian women informed him they "gathered flags for mats within that tract." (East Hampton Town Records, 156.)
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Red Creek," now "Wading River." The name is preserved in two villages in the town of Riverhead, on the orig'inal tract. Wopowag, more correctly IVepowage, given as the name of Stony Brook, town of Brookhaven, 'describes a place "At the narrows," t. e. of a brook or cove, and usually "The crossing place." (Trumbull.) So'was'set, correctly Cozvas'sctt (Moh.), the name of what is now Port Jefferson, signifies, "Near a place of small pine trees." (Trumbull.) The name was applied to what was long known as the "Drowned Meadow," but not the less a "Place of small pine trees" which was at or near the meaJdow. Wickaposset, now given as the name of Fisher's Island, appears to be from Weqna, "End of," -paug (-peauke), "Water4and," and -et, locative -- near the end of the water-land, marsh or pond. The island is on the north side of the Sound opposite Stonington, Ct., but is included in the jurisdiction of Southampton.