[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] any particular Indian, I believe is beyond hundreds of old surveys the hills, streams, human skill, so as to make it evident to • etc., by which the tracts were bounded any indifferent man." — Golden, Document-are as clear as the marks of modern sur-ary History, i, 383, 384. Nevertheless veyors. many such localities have been and can 1 (fCallaghan, n, 482. 74 THE INDUN TRIBES Tackapousha, sachem in 1656, was also chief sachem of the western chieftaincies on the island. 5th. The Matinecocks^ who claimed jurisdiction of the lands east of Newtown as far as the west line of Smithtown, and probably to the west side of Nesaquake river. They were numerous and had large villages at Flushing, Glen Cove, Cold Spring, Huntington and Cow Harbor.1 A portion of the chieftaincy took part in the war of 1643 under Gonwarrowe; but the sachem at that time remained friendly to the Dutch, and through his diplomacy succeeded in establishing peace. Whiteneymen (one-eyed) was sachem in 1643, and Assiapam in 1653. 6th. The Nesaquakes or Missaquogues possessed the country east of the river of that name to Stony brook and from the sound to the middle of the island. The principal settlement of the tribe was on the site of the present village of Nesaquake where the sachem probably resided. Coginiquant was sachem in 1656. yth. The Seatalcats or Setaukets, whose territory extended from Stony brook to Wading river. Their village was upon Little Neck. They are said to have been a numerous family.